A US television company has broadcast a video tape showing scenes directly preceding the execution of Daniel Pearl, the American journalist who was kidnapped and murdered in Pakistan earlier this year. The tape, shown by CBS News late on Tuesday, begins with Pearl giving his captors a brief description of his roots. ”My father’s Jewish. […]
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An Egyptian being tried for spying for Israel claimed on Monday he had information on the bombings of two airliners, including one which killed more than 250 people over the Scottish town of Lockerbie in 1988, a court source said. Magdi Anwar Mohammed Tawfiq, a 52-year-old unemployed man, told the High State Security Court in […]
South African and Nigerian envoys were holding separate talks on Monday with officials of Zimbabwe’s ruling Zanu-PF party and the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), the Foreign Affairs Department said.
Gay groups have demanded that Western Cape premier Peter Marais resign and apologise for anti-homosexual statements made at the weekend.
Some 5 000 polling stations opened across Sierra Leone on Tuesday for the first presidential and parliamentary polls since the end of the west African nation’s bloody 10-year civil war.
The exodus of South Africa’ top rugby talent has reached epidemic proportions with three former Springbok players on Monday signing, or signalling their intent to sign, with British clubs. Cats captain Andre Vos has signed with English club Harlequins, while Sharks fullback Thinus Delport has decided to join Gloucester. South Africa’s most capped fullback Percy […]
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FREAK storms that have battered Madagascar relentlessly for four days left the main port city of Toamasina cut off on Sunday from the rest of the Indian Ocean island nation, which is in the throes of a political crisis. The rains, which followed a cyclone that killed two people on Thursday, began easing on Sunday […]
EIGHT candidates will challenge Sierra Leone President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah on Tuesday in the country’s first elections since the end of a brutal 10-year civil war.