and training for ukraine. shortly after landing in hiroshima, president zelensky tweeted that he was expecting to have important meetings with partners and friends of ukraine. he said peace will be closer as a result of the summit. he has met with rishi sunak in the past few minutes. they had already met on monday in the uk, where it was announced britain would send hundreds of air defence missiles and armed drones to ukraine. on the second days of talks injapan, the leaders of the g7 group of advanced nations have issued a statement on a shared approach to promote global economic resilience and to counter economic coercion. they said that any malign actor trying to, as they put it, weaponise economic dependence would fail. the g7 leaders added that their policy was not designed to harm china or thwart its economic progress. the statement also warned against what it said was china s militarisation in the south china sea, and it urged beijing to pressure moscow to end it
Priscillah Mabelane has been announced as the chairperson of the board of Eskom’s new transmission company, the National Transmission Company of SA (NTCSA).
in the local ireland. it is day two of counting in the local council ireland. it is day two of counting in the local council elections. . ireland. it is day two of counting | in the local council elections. we are at belfast city hall, the largest of the 11 councils. and we have about two thirds of the results so far, still waiting on about a third of the results and that could be a long night ahead. we won t get the full picture until potentially very late on this evening. the big story here so far is the surge in support for sinn fein, especially in some areas that would have been seen as typically strong hold unionist areas, places like ballymena and liz byrne. sinn fein is likely to be the largest nationalist party and that will put the democratic unionist party in second place. it s support is holding up. sinn fein gains coming at the expense of some of the smaller parties like the greens and bp uk. , , ., smaller parties like the greens and bpuk. , ,., bp uk. and will the r