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The Citizen
07-05-2025
- Sport
- The Citizen
CGA celebrates athletes for raising the bar at nationals
CGA celebrates athletes for raising the bar at nationals The Central Gauteng Athletics (CGA) acting president Karabo Mabilo expressed her gratitude to the athletes who helped the province finish second at the Athletics SA (ASA) senior track and field championships in Potchefstroom from April 24 to 26. Mabilo praised the athletes for raising the bar after CGA ended the competition with 23 medals – eight gold, eight silver and seven bronze. 'The championships celebrated athletic excellence with CGA athletes across all disciplines, thrilling crowds with their performances,' Mabilo said. 'Congratulations to all CGA athletes, team management, coaches and parents for their contribution in putting CGA out there as one of the best athletics provinces,' she added. Despite AGN's expected dominance, the CGA contingent displayed exceptional performances on all three days of the competition. Sprinter Joviale Mbisha took the lead with a victory in the women's 100m on day one. She breasted the tape in 11.48. ALSO READ: Van Dyk wins three titles at CGA champs Leendert Koekemoer captured the headlines with his new SA U20 400m record. He clocked 45.03 in the semi-finals to chalk 0.12 seconds off Riaan Dempers' 45.15 set in Secunda in 1994. In what many called the upset of the championships, Maxime Chaumeton pipped national 5 000m record holder and race favourite, Adriaan Wildschutt, to the men's 5 000m gold. Chaumeton crossed the line in 13:44.53, with Wildschutt 8.52 seconds off the pace after finishing the race in 13:53.05. CGA's Kabelo Mulaudzi rounded up the podium at 14:01.89. In the hurdles, Sabelo Dhlamini clinched his first national title when he won the men's 400m hurdles in 48.57, missing the World Athletics Championships qualifying time by fractions of a second. On the field, Leandri Holtzhausen tossed 66.97m to win the senior women's hammer throw. Young AGN thrower Aiden Smith beat the Olympian Kyle Blignaut in the men's shotput final. Smith launched his implement to 20.31m, 24cm further than Blignaut's 20.07m throw. AGN topped the medal standings with 45 medals (17 gold, 14 silver and 14 bronze) and the host province, Athletics Central North West (ACNW), finished joint second with the same number of medals as CGA. ALSO READ: Local athletes in fine form at CGA league meeting At Caxton, we employ humans to generate daily fresh news, not AI intervention. Happy reading!
Russia Today
29-04-2025
- Politics
- Russia Today
Argentina publishes files on notorious Nazi fugitives
The Argentinean government has made public almost 2,000 declassified secret service files on hundreds of Nazi war criminals who fled to the Latin American country after the Third Reich's defeat in the Second World War. According to estimates, as many as 10,000 Nazis utilized so-called 'ratlines' to escape as the Axis powers collapsed. Infamously, around half of them are believed to have chosen Argentina –known for its reluctance to grant extradition requests — as their refuge. The 1,850 files uploaded online by the Argentinian National Archives (AGN) on Monday included intelligence reports, photographs, and police records. The documents on 'Nazi activities in Argentina' are now available to all 'thanks to extensive restoration and digitization work,' the AGN said in a statement. Among other things, the papers depict how the likes of Josef Mengele, Erich Priebke and Adolf Eichmann were able to make it to Argentina and what they did in the country. Mengele was a physician and Nazi SS officer, nicknamed the 'Angel of Death' for his inhumane medical experiments on prisoners at the Auschwitz concentration camp. The published records show he entered Argentina in 1949 under the name of Gregor Helmut and then openly lived in the country. 'References obtained from different sectors of the German community allowed us to learn that he was commander of the Assault Guards and, at the same time, doctor in the German extermination camp of Auschwitz,' one of the files on Mengele read. The newly-published papers also included the 1995 extradition documents for Priebke, a mid-level SS commander, who had been in charge of a unit responsible for the massacre of 335 Italian civilians at the Ardeatine Caves outside Rome in 1944. They also shed light on the time that Eichmann, a high-ranking SS official often described as the logistics chief of the Holocaust, spent in Argentina. He was kidnapped in Buenos Aires in 1960 by Mossad agents and hanged for his crimes by Israel two years later. The files in question were declassified in 1992 under a decree from then-Argentine President Carlos Menem, but they could only be viewed in a specially designated room at the AGN. The country's current leader Javier Milei ordered that the Nazi papers be released to the general public in March on a request from the US Jewish human rights organization, the Simon Wiesenthal Center, which is currently investigating links between Swiss bank, Credit Suisse, and Nazi Germany.
Newsweek
25-04-2025
- Science
- Newsweek
Webb Telescope Reveals Hidden Supermassive Black Hole in Nearby Galaxy
Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Newsweek AI is in beta. Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content. An elusive supermassive blackhole has been discovered in a nearby galaxy that's millions of light-years away from Earth. A supermassive blackhole—one measuring millions or billions of times the mass of the Sun—was found at the center of a nearby spiral galaxy known as Messier 83 (M83) by the James Webb Space Telescope, a joint project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency. The findings, published in The Astrophysical Journal, reveal evidence of highly ionized neon gas, which could be a telltale sign of an active galactic nucleus (AGN), the bright, compact central portion of a galaxy. Also known as the Southern Pinwheel, M83 is 15 million light-years away from Earth and was discovered back in 1752. "With an apparent magnitude of 7.5, M83 is one of the brightest spiral galaxies in the night sky," NASA notes, and it can most easily be observed in June using a pair of binoculars. A close-up view of a barred spiral galaxy. A close-up view of a barred spiral galaxy. ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, A. Adamo Stockholm University and the FEAST JWST team For decades, astronomers have been unable to confirm the presense of an AGN in M83, with previous research suggesting that should a supermassive black hole exist there, it must be dormant or hidden behind thick dust. "Our discovery of highly ionized neon emission in the nucleus of M83 was unexpected," said paper lead Svea Hernandez, an astronomer for the European Space Agency at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, U.S., in a statement. "These signatures require large amounts of energy to be produced—more than what normal stars can generate. This strongly suggests the presence of an AGN that has been elusive until now," Hernandez noted. Linda Smith from the Space Telescope Science Institute, a co-author of the study, added that the latest discovery marks the first-ever "compelling clue" that a black hole may be present in M83. She added: "Astronomers thought they had ruled out an AGN in M83, but now we have fresh evidence that challenges past assumptions and opens new avenues for exploration." The team behind the latest discovery plan to conduct more studies from other observatories, such as the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and the Very Large Telescope (VLT), to further explore the nature of the gas and confirm the presence of a supermassive black hole in M83. These observations will help ascertain whether the newly detected emission in M83 originates from an AGN or other high-energy processes. Last month, scientists were also surprised to discover oxygen in the most distant galaxy ever found. The record discovery, made via ALMA, suggested that early galaxies formed more rapidly than previously thought. Do you have a tip on a science story that Newsweek should be covering? Do you have a question about black holes or galaxies? Let us know via science@ Reference Svea Hernandez, Linda J. Smith, Logan H. Jones, Aditya Togi, Marcio B. Meléndez, Valentina Abril-Melgarejo, Angela Adamo, Almudena Alonso Herrero, Tanio Díaz-Santos, Travis C. Fischer, Santiago García-Burillo, Alec S. Hirschauer, Leslie K. Hunt, Bethan James, Vianney Lebouteiller, Knox S. Long, Matilde Mingozzi, Lise Ramambason, and Cristina Ramos Almeida (2025). JWST/MIRI Detection of [Ne v] and [Ne vi] in M83: evidence for the long sought-after active galactic nucleus? The Astrophysical Journal. doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/adba5d
