Giorno: 12 Maggio 2023

5.4 Magnitude Earthquake Near Tokyo Causes Minor Injuries, Damage

Read More Tiles are scattered after an earthquake in Kisarazu, Chiba prefecture, near Tokyo on May 11, 2023. (Kyodo News via AP) TOKYO—An earthquake shook Japan’s capital, Tokyo, and surrounding areas on Thursday, injuring several people and causing minor damage, officials and media said. The quake had a 5.4 magnitude and its epicenter was in […]

New Zealand PM Invited to Biden’s Pacific Summit in Papua New Guinea

Read More New Zealand’s Prime Minister Chris Hipkins will visit Papua New Guinea later this month to attend President Joe Biden’s summit with Pacific leaders, his office said on Thursday. Hipkins will embark on his trip to Papua New Guinea on May 21, marking his first visit to the Pacific nation since becoming prime minister […]

Philippine Court Acquits Critic of Duterte’s Drug War After 6 Years in Jail

Read More Former Philippine Senator Leila de Lima, a vocal critic of ex-President Rodrigo Duterte’s anti-drug campaign, was acquitted Friday in the second drug-related charge against her after serving six years in jail. De Lima, 63, was arrested in 2017 on drug-related charges after she launched a senate investigation into violations committed during Duterte’s “war […]

Africa wants to ban skin lighteners containing mercury

Read More Love the skin you’re in: A shop sells skin-lightening products in Accra, Ghana. Africa is experiencing a trend of skin bleaching, also called whitening, particularly among teenagers and young adults. Photo: Cristina Aldehuela/Getty Images Africa wants to amend the global mercury treaty by imposing a ban on skin-lightening products laced with the highly […]

Competition authority gives thumbs up to SAA-Takatso deal

Read More The Competition Commission has recommended that the Competition Tribunal approve the proposed merger between Takatso Aviation and South African Airways (SAA) subject to divestiture and employment conditions. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G) The Competition Commission has recommended that the Competition Tribunal approve the proposed merger between Takatso Aviation and South African Airways (SAA) subject to divestiture […]

Powerships for South Africa’s energy future

Read More Tank pipework onboard the Karmol LNGT Powership Asia floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU), operated by Karpowership, viewed from the ship’s bridge whilst docked at Cape Town port in Cape Town, South Africa. Photographer: Dwayne Senior/Bloomberg via Getty Images Electricity minister Kgosientso Ramokgopa believes that powerships — special purpose ships on which a […]

Ramaphosa on verge of losing investor confidence after US claims – Standard Bank

Read More President Cyril Ramaphosa. (Photo: David Harrison) Cooperate South Africa has entered the debate on the US-South Africa relations with Standard Bank saying frustrations around President Cyril Ramaphosa’s perceived pro-Russia approach may reduce private sector willingness to back his reform initiatives. The bank’s analysts also said there were deepening frustrations in the business and […]

John Kani: Still questions about the truth after 21 years

Read More ‘I want to be remembered as a good father, good husband, great grandfather and a human being who prayed and worked hard for the betterment of his society’ John Kani ‘When we got towards the end of the play, those kids were sobbing openly. I stood there, took that curtain call, and my […]

Prince Harry has no evidence he was hacked by the Mirror, court told

Read More Prince Harry has no evidence he was the victim of phone hacking by Mirror journalists, the high court has heard, with stories about his private life instead secretly leaked by royal press officers. The Duke of Sussex alleges that dozens of news stories published in the Daily Mirror, the Sunday Mirror and People […]

Tories demanding grassroots voice deny being a ‘Johnson revivalist group’

Read More At the inaugural conference of a group promising to restore grassroots control to the Conservatives and ensure that the party’s MPs can never again impose their own leader, one pivotal figure is notable by his absence: Boris Johnson. The Conservative Democratic Organisation (CDO), which is gathering in Bournemouth on Saturday, insists it is […]