# Die VN se hoof van hulp, Tom Fletcher, sê Vrydag se hongersnoodverslag volgens die Geïntegreerde Voedselsekuriteitsfase-skaal is “onweerlegbaar”. Hy het in ‘n verklaring op sosiale media gesê dit is ‘n hongersnood wat voorkom kon word as hulp toegelaat was. Kos hoop egter op by grense as gevolg van sistematiese obstruksie deur Israel, wat lei […]
# At least 12 people are dead, and four others are missing, after a railway bridge that was under construction in China collapsed. According to the Xinhua News Agency, 16 workers were on the bridge in Qinghai province when a steel cable snapped during a “tensioning operation”. Aerial photos show a large section missing from […]
# Turkey’s first lady, Emine Erdoğan, has written to Melania Trump, urging her to show the same concern for children in Gaza as she has for Ukrainian children affected by war. Trump previously sent Russian President Vladimir Putin her own letter concerning the nearly 20-thousand Ukrainian children that Kyiv’s government says have been abducted during […]
# The UN’s aid chief Tom Fletcher says Friday’s famine report from the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification is “irrefutable”. He said in a social media statement that it is a famine that could have been prevented if aid had been allowed. However, food stacks up at borders because of systematic obstruction by Israel, resulting […]
# ‘n Paroolraad in Kalifornië het parool geweier vir Lyle Menendez, wat saam met sy broer skuldig bevind is aan die moord op hul ouers in 1989. Erik Menendez is Donderdag parool geweier. Dit is ‘n verlammende slag vir beide broers ná jare se stryd om vrylating. Die goewerneur van Kalifornië, Gavin Newsom, het die […]
# A California parole board has denied parole for Lyle Menendez, who was convicted alongside his brother of murdering their parents in 1989. Erik Menendez was denied parole on Thursday. It’s a crippling blow to both brothers after years of fighting for release. California Governor Gavin Newsom has the power to reverse parole decisions, and […]
# Die Amerikaanse Departement van Justisie het transkripsies en klankopnames van sy Julie-onderhoud met Ghislaine Maxwell vrygestel. Sy dien tronkstraf van 20 jaar uit omdat sy die oorlede finansier Jeffrey Epstein gehelp het om jong meisies te misbruik. Maxwell sê sy het Trump nog nooit in enige onvanpaste omstandighede gesien nie, en oudpresident Bill Clinton […]
# The US Justice Department has released transcripts and audio recordings of its July interview with Ghislaine Maxwell. She is serving a 20-year prison sentence for helping late financier Jeffrey Epstein abuse young girls. Maxwell says she has never seen Trump in any inappropriate setting, and former US President Bill Clinton was never a client […]
# The World Health Organisation and the World Meteorological Organisation have warned of growing health risks for workers due to extreme heat. In a joint released they note productivity drops by two-to-three-percent for every degree above 20-degrees Celsius, with risks including heatstroke, dehydration and kidney failure. The report states that nearly half the world’s population […]
