Cape Town | Thursday SOUTH African Foreign Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma called on Wednesday for the UN Security Council to be restructured, and issued an implicit call for it to be involved in any riposte to the terror attacks in the United States. “Whatever definitions and conventions — whether they be about terrorism, or something else […]

FRANCOIS-XAVIER HARISPE, Islamabad | Sunday THEY flooded in with hopes of scoops from Afghanistan, got stuck behind closed borders in Pakistan and their numbers have reached such a critical mass that the dateline joke is of “Journalistan.” Since the start of the current crisis surrounding Afghanistan, the Pakistan authorities have registered 450 newly arrived journalists […]

A TEST of the Taliban’s anti-aircraft guns sent residents of Afghanistan’s capital scurrying for cover on Friday, panicked into thinking the United States was attacking. Bursts of continuous firing erupted from positions in the hills around Kabul, where Taliban fighters have dug in air defences against expected US attacks. A Taliban official confirmed the firing […]

Johannesburg | Sunday DF MALAN drive officially ceased to exist on Sunday morning when Johannesburg unicity mayor Amos Masondo snipped a ribbon renaming the road Beyers Naude Drive. A plaque commemorating the renaming was also unveiled outside the Wespark cemetery. The 86-year-old Naude was not able to attend the ceremony due to ill health, but […]

A PREVIOUSLY unknown Islamic militant group is threatening the United States and its allies with a ”fierce and relentless war,” according to a statement on Wednesday. The statement, sent by the London-based Muslim human rights group, the Islamic Observation Center, was identified as coming from the Islamic Army for the Liberation of Islamic Holy Sites […]

SAYED SALAHUDDIN, Kabul | Wednesday THOUSANDS of angry Afghans stormed and set fire to the long-deserted US embassy in the capital, Kabul, as part of huge protests against threatened US strikes. Two Taliban fighters climbed on to the building and used a hammer and an iron rod to rip off the US seal from over […]

SIZWE SAMAYENDE, Nelspruit | Friday AN angry Mpumalanga woman who believes she has been betrayed by the country’s justice system is quietly making history by suing the two men who allegedly raped and impregnated her. The 21-year-old teaching graduate decided to take up the fight on her own after police bungled the criminal investigation and […]

AN airborne attack against US President George W. Bush may have been planned during the Group of Eight summit in Genoa two months ago, Italian Foreign Minister Renato Ruggiero said on Wednesday. He said indications such an attack may be planned caused authorities to close the airspace over the Italian city during the July 20-22 […]

FIVE of the seven South Africans who went missing after the September 11 terror attacks on the United States are alive and have been accounted for, the Department of Foreign Affairs said on Tuesday. Representative Ronnie Mamoepa said the five had contacted their families. One of the two that were still missing was thought to […]

A BRITISH minister said that Osama bin Laden was planning further major attacks in the next few weeks. ”I understand that he is preparing already for high-impact terrorist attacks in the coming weeks if he’s able to,” Peter Hain, minister for Europe, said on BBC TV’s Question Time programme on Thursday evening. ”There is evidence […]