内容摘要：Remaining a very slim teenager, Damaal was rejected from compulsory military service when he graduated from high school.

Remaining a very slim teenager, Damaal was rejected from compulsory military service when he graduated from high school.

Trump has also highlighted allegations by a group of white South Africans who say white farmers face a disproportionate number of violent assaults on their farms, which they say amount to a “genocide”.Ramaphosa’s government denies those allegations and says farmer deaths are part of a larger crime problem. Farm attacks and murders are common in the country due to the remoteness of farm locations. Both white and Black farmers have been targeted in assault, robbery, and murder cases. The South African government does not publish data on racially specific crime.

The issue of Gaza is also a tense one. The South African governmentan International Court of Justice case against Israel on December 29, 2023, accusing it of “genocidal acts” in its assaults on Gaza, to the anger of Israel’s ally and major weapons supplier, the US.How the disputed region of Essequibo factors into Venezuela's 2025 elections

Like many Venezuelans, Oliver Rivas grew up looking at maps of his country: a triangle on the edge of the Caribbean Sea.But one region always stood out. In school textbooks and on classroom posters, a stretch of land in the east was marked differently, with shading, red marks or dashed boundary lines.

, a 160,000-square-kilometre (62,000-square-mile) area rich with jungles, rivers and mountains, not to mention resources like oil and gold.

“It always appeared as a claimed zone or disputed territory," Rivas said. "We always understood that it was subject to controversy. That’s what we learned in school. But it has always been part of the map of Venezuela, part of Venezuelan territory."United States President Donald Trump has signed a series of new executive orders aimed at boosting

nuclear energy productionin the country, while rolling back regulations.

Friday’s orders, signed by Trump at an Oval Office event, called on the nation’s independent Nuclear Regulatory Commission to cut down on regulations and fast-track new licences for reactors and power plants.One order requires the body to make decisions on new nuclear reactors within 18 months. That would severely pare down a process that can take more than a decade. Speaking from the Oval Office, Trump described the nuclear industry as “hot”.