Bill Corcoran

2 weeks ago | irishtimes.com | Bill Corcoran

Cyril Ramaphosa has been commended at home for his handling of Donald Trump‘s “white genocide” ambush at the Oval Office, but the harsh reality of South Africa‘s violent crime crisis has still damaged the country’s image. The South African president responded to Trump’s claims that South Africa’s Afrikaner community is facing widespread persecution because of their race with hard facts strategically delivered by black and white members of his delegation.

2 weeks ago | irishtimes.com | Bill Corcoran

South African president Cyril Ramaphosa‘s meeting with Donald Trump in Washington on Wednesday could be a defining moment in US-South African affairs, given the fraught relationship both countries have endured in recent years. According to South Africa’s presidency, Ramaphosa sought out the engagement with the US president “to reset the strategic relationship between the two countries”, which has deteriorated dramatically since Trump assumed office for his second term in January.

1 month ago | nature.com | Bill Corcoran |Arnan Mitchell |Roberto Morandotti |Leif K. Oxenløwe

AbstractMicrocombs—optical frequency combs generated by nonlinear integrated microcavity resonators—have the potential to offer the full capability of their benchtop counterparts, but in an integrated footprint. They have enabled breakthroughs in spectroscopy, microwave photonics, frequency synthesis, optical ranging, quantum sources, metrology, optical neuromorphic processing and more.

1 month ago | irishtimes.com | Bill Corcoran

South Africa has positioned itself to adopt a more significant role in the Russia-Ukraine peace process following a breakthrough meeting between presidents Cyril Ramaphosa and Volodymyr Zelenskiy. Zelenskiy, who arrived in South Africa early on Thursday, was forced to cut short his visit due to an overnight aerial attack on Kyiv by Russia that killed at least 12 and injured more than 80.

1 month ago | irishtimes.com | Bill Corcoran

Mozambique’s authorities have failed to credibly investigate the deaths of more than 300 people caught up in protests that followed October’s disputed general election, Amnesty International has claimed. In a report on the Mozambican security force crackdown on protesters after the October 9th poll, the human rights group has called the response “a shameful overreaction”.