Giorno: 1 Ottobre 2022

Amsterdam considers banning ‘cannabis tourists’ from its coffee shops

Read More Strumming gently at a guitar, outside the “nicest” coffee shop in Amsterdam, French tourists Terry Novel and Manon Fouquet enjoy a quiet joint in the sun. They have no idea of the dark cloud around them and the cannabis sector in Amsterdam. The council has just spent a day debating whether to ban […]

Jimmy Carter celebrates 98th birthday with family, friends, baseball

Post Content Jimmy Carter, already the longest-living U.S. president in history, will celebrate his 98th birthday Saturday with family and friends in Plains, the tiny Georgia town where he and his wife, 95-year-old Rosalynn, were born in the years between World War I and the Great Depression. The 39th president’s latest milestone comes as The […]

Ukraine says its forces ‘encircle’ Russian troops in Donetsk

Ukraine’s armed forces on Saturday said they had “liberated” five settlements in the Donetsk region and encircled thousands of Russian soldiers near the eastern town of Lyman. “The Russian troops in the area of Lyman are encircled. Yampil, Novoselivka, Shandryholove, Drobysheve, and Stavky settlements are liberated. Stabilization measures are being conducted there,” Serhii Cherevatyi, Speaker […]

Treviso, 19enne ruba tre auto e durante la fuga uccide un ciclista

Read More TREVISO – Ruba tre automobili poi fugge causando alcuni incidenti e infine travolge e uccide un ciclista. Gli episodi, su cui stanno indagando i carabinieri, si sono succeduti stamani in alcune località della provincia di Treviso. L’uomo, in uno stato di evidente alterazione, è stato arrestato. I furti sono avvenuti prima a Fonte, […]

Mirror apologises for using picture of wrong person in Kwasi Kwarteng story

Read More The Mirror has apologised after it mistakenly used a picture of the wrong person to illustrate a story about the chancellor, Kwasi Kwarteng, on its website. Condemning the “terrible error”, which occurred on the first day of Black History Month, the publication said: “This morning a picture in a story about Kwasi Kwarteng […]

Elon Musk and Twitter boss’s messages show how pair fell out

Read More Newly published messages between Elon Musk and the Twitter boss, Parag Agrawal, show how their relationship appeared to be blossoming before it dramatically soured, with the billionaire Tesla CEO tweeting: “Is Twitter dying?” The series of text messages, disclosed in a Delaware court filing, suggest the two men were for a short period […]

Why state capture could see SA greylisted

Read More Just over three months ago, Cyril Ramaphosa received the final volumes of the Zondo report. Among many other things, the state capture saga laid bare the flaws in South Africa’s anti-money laundering framework, which the government has sought to correct through eleventh-hour legislative amendments. But, with the country’s greylisting looming, the question remains […]

Arsenal v Tottenham: Premier League – live

Read More 13 min: The free kick is shovelled into the box diagonall from the right by Son. Richarlison steps ahead of Arsenal’s high line, and pokes the dropping ball towards the bottom left. Ramsdale parries brilliantly. Spurs finally bare their teeth. 12 min: Partey fouls an in-flight Richarlison, but the referee gives Spurs the […]

Training is the one component of B-BBEE that can fuel sizeable company growth in South Africa

Read More Changes to South Africa’s Broad-based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE) legislation are already underfoot, with the statutory process around reforming the Employment Equity Amendment bill set to last month.  A research paper by consultancy firm Songhai Advisor forecasts that the new reforms will allow the state to set employment equity targets for certain business […]