Sunday World News Updates

Yemen’s Houthi forces have seized strategic Perim Island in the Bab al-Mandab Strait, escalating a conflict that is increasingly putting pressure on the United States, threatening Gulf oil shipments and pushing global crude prices above $100 a barrel. The advance has prompted Saudi Arabia to seek US military assistance, although… Read more »

The BRICS is playing an increasingly important role in safeguarding genuine multilateralism and international rules by fostering a more balanced, inclusive and representative international order, an expert has said. “BRICS is a venue for partnership, collaboration, and dialogue,” Balew Demissie, a senior consultant at the Policy Studies Institute of Ethiopia,… Read more »

Raymond Matlala, Chairperson of the South African BRICS Youth Association, highlights the role of BRICS in creating direct benefits for member countries and calls on more practical cooperation and youth innovation within the BRICS framework. Read more »

The battle for the South African Football Association (Safa) presidency is over after incumbent Danny Jordaan defeated his challenger Sandile Zungu by a massive victory in the elective congress held at Vodaworld in Midrand on Saturday afternoon. Jordaan hammered Zungu by 157-82 votes. The presidential elections pitted Jordaan against businessman… Read more »

The work of transforming communities cannot be left to government alone. Across Gauteng, Non-Profit Organisations (NPOs) remain an important part of the social development sector, working directly with communities and responding to some of the most pressing social challenges facing our province. It is against this background that the Gauteng… Read more »

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President Cyril Ramaphosa on Friday strongly favoured developing economies and countries in the expanded Brics not to remain suppliers of raw materials, with high-value manufacturing elsewhere. Sensing an opportunity for Brics to shape a “more resilient, diversified and inclusive economic future for the Global South”, President Ramaphosa, addressing the Brics… Read more »

The expansion of BRICS marks a qualitative leap in its representativeness and influence. Today, BRICS countries account for nearly half of the world’s population, around 30% of global economic output, and one-fifth of global trade. The greater BRICS cooperation has entered a stage of high-quality development. Media professionals work at… Read more »

Sitting at a surgical console in Guangzhou, south China’s Guangdong Province, an ophthalmologist from the Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center tracks a crystal-clear, real-time 5G video feed. The doctor guides a robotic arm thousands of kilometres away to perform a painstaking subretinal injection – delivering targeted medication into a paper-thin layer of… Read more »

It is only a matter of hours before South Africa and the entire football-loving world find out who will be leading the Safa for at least the next four years, when the elective congress showdown takes place on Saturday in Midrand. Businessman Sandile Zungu is challenging long-serving Safa president Danny… Read more »