Giorno: 15 Giugno 2023

North Korea Fires 2 Short-Range Missiles After Warning of Response to Allied Drills

Read More SEOUL—North Korea fired two short-range missiles off its east coast on Thursday, the South Korean military said, less than an hour after Pyongyang warned of an “inevitable” response to military drills staged earlier in the day by South Korean and U.S. troops. The latest action by North Korea came as U.S. President Joe […]

Easier access to antiretrovirals helps people in rural areas

Read More Winding road: A community health worker delivers ARVs to a patient’s home in the Xhora Mouth Administrative Area, Eastern Cape. (Photos: Bulungula Incubator) Along the rural coastline of the Eastern Cape, a small community grieves the loss of a beloved makhulu, Nosethu Siyo*, aged 62. As the matriarch of her family, she cared […]

Woolies’s gay pride range: solidarity or profit?

Read More Woolworths’s turnover in South Africa was around R85 billion last year. It is the preferred store for the middle class for clothes and food. (Halden Krog/Bloomberg via Getty Images) June is Gay Pride Month. This commemorates the June 1969 Stonewall uprising in the US, when gay people rebelled against homophobia and a lack […]

Who will be the bully in a changing world order?

Read More US President Joe Biden. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images) It might not seem so to the many economists and commentators warning of our impending economic peril should we be booted out of Agoa – the preferential trade programme that allows 36 countries in sub-Saharan Africa to export to the US tariff-free – but […]

Godlimpi and Mkhangelwal in talks over ANCYL presidency

Read More Two ANCYL leaders who have got the nod for the position of president are in negotiations over who will represent the province when it participates in the organisation’s conference later this month. (Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg via Getty Images) Two Eastern Cape ANC Youth League (ANCYL) leaders who have got the nod for the position […]

Greece shipwreck: up to 100 children were below deck, survivors say

Read More Survivors from an overcrowded fishing boat that capsized and sank on Wednesday off the Greek coast in one of the worst disasters in the Mediterranean in recent years have told doctors and police that women and children were travelling in the hold of the vessel. Seventy-eight people have been confirmed dead, but there […]

Boris Johnson goes down fighting but runs head first into Partygate reality

Read More When Boris Johnson appeared before the privileges committee in March, he was asked by the Tory MP Alberto Costa if he would characterise the inquiry as a “witch-hunt” or a “kangaroo court”. The former prime minister replied he would reserve judgment until he saw the committee’s conclusions. “I will wait to see how […]

Partygate report: key findings of Commons privileges committee

Read More The House of Commons privileges committee has found that Boris Johnson repeatedly misled MPs when he told them he knew nothing about lockdown-breaking social gatherings in and around Downing Street. These are the main points of a highly damning and hugely detailed report. Key findings on wrongdoing Johnson was found to have committed […]