Giorno: 26 Luglio 2022

Ukraine’s coastline hit again as UN preps first Black Sea export shipment of grains

Ukraine’s coastline was again hit Tuesday in a series of strikes less than a week after a landmark deal was signed to secure the safe export of food products in the Black Sea and just days before the U.N. has planned the first shipment. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy took to Instagram to show the devastation […]

Russia to leave International Space Station project after 2024, director says

Russia will opt out of the International Space Station project “after 2024” and will focus on building out its own post, the newly-appointed space chief said Tuesday. Yuri Borisov, who was appointed earlier this month as the head of Moscow’s space corporation Roscosmos, told Russian President Vladimir Putin that Russia will fulfill its partner commitments […]

Pay parity for Banyana does not mean prezzies from glory-hunting ministers

Read More Credit: @Banyana_Banyana/Twitter So the Banyana squad will get an extra R5.8-million to share for their Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (Wafcon) triumph, courtesy of the Department of Sport, Arts and Culture. Who knows how such a big pot of money can be rustled up on the fly between a Saturday and a […]

Tazné van Wyk murder trial: Witness says the accused was in the area on the day the girl disappeared

Read More A witness has placed the man accused of kidnapping and murdering four-year-old Tazné van Wyk within less than six kilometres of the little girl on the day of her disappearance from her street in Connaught Estate, Elsies River, in February 2020.  State witness Elsabe von Houten told the Western Cape high court on […]

Labour pledges to fast-track rape and domestic violence cases through courts

Read More Rape and domestic violence cases will be fast-tracked through the courts under a Labour government so that no victim has to wait more than a year for justice, Keir Starmer has pledged. In an interview with the Guardian, the Labour leader said Boris Johnson had made no progress tackling gender-based violence during his […]

Scientists find 30 potential new species at bottom of ocean

Read More Scientists have found more than 30 potentially new species living at the bottom of the sea. Researchers from the UK’s Natural History Museum used a remotely operated vehicle to collect specimens from the abyssal plains of the Clarion-Clipperton Zone in the central Pacific. Previously, creatures from this area had been studied only from […]

Uvalde Elementary School Principal Suspended With Pay

The principal of Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas was suspended with pay, her lawyer said.

Elizabeth Warren accused pro-life pregnancy centers of ‘torturing’ women. Here’s what they actually do

Post Content NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Progressive politicians, such as Democrat Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, have attacked pro-life pregnancy centers in the wake of Roe v. Wade’s overturn, going as far as to call for them to be shut down across the country. But the women who run these centers […]

How can governments become data-driven organisations?

Read More Becoming a “data-driven” organisation has been creeping into the governance lexicon recently. On 21April, Randall Williams, the mayor of Tshwane, announced “the city would move with the times and embrace the full opportunities provided by new technology and data solutions to build a data-driven service delivery”. But what does it mean to be […]

Russia’s repressed independent media is vital to building a post-Putin era

Read More Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has been accompanied by a clampdown on independent media and has led an estimated 200 000 people to flee the country. Among those to have left Russia in recent months are almost all independent journalists and activists, whose opposition to the war exposes them to state intimidation and […]