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/ 28 September 2007
Eritrea, in a letter published on Friday, urged the United Nations to force its arch-foe, Ethiopia, to urgently implement a border ruling, warning it feared Addis Ababa was preparing to resume war. In the letter, Foreign Minister Osman Saleh said he believed that Ethiopian threats to scrap the Algiers peace deal that ended their bloody 1998 to 2000 border war were a precursor to an attack.
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/ 28 September 2007
A hospital error mixing up the X-rays of two similarly named patients led to the death of one of them after her perfectly healthy kidney was removed, the Italian press reported on Friday. The 54-year-old woman died of a likely embolism on Thursday, two days after undergoing the unnecessary operation, the reports said.
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/ 28 September 2007
Brazil’s march to the final of the Women’s Soccer World Cup final in China is doing far more than just helping the growth of the sport in the South American country where it was once banned by law. A stellar performance by Marta saw Brazil demolish tournament favourites the United States 4-0 in the semifinal on Thursday.
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/ 28 September 2007
United States President George Bush on Friday called for a ”strong and transparent” way for nations to measure progress on fighting climate change, but said each country should set its own approach. In a speech to a US-sponsored conference of major emitting countries, Bush also called for the creation of a global fund to promote clean technology.
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/ 28 September 2007
During the eight days that Tanya Rider lay seriously injured in her crashed sport utility vehicle, her husband was fighting to get authorities to launch a search for her, he said on Friday. Rider (33) was found alive but dehydrated at the bottom of a steep ravine on Thursday, more than a week after she failed to return home from work.
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/ 28 September 2007
Israel and the Palestinians could sign a peace deal within six months of an international peace conference scheduled for November, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Friday. ”The meeting in November should define the principles settling the questions over the final status [of the Palestinian territories],” Abbas said.
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/ 28 September 2007
India’s version of American Idol sparked violence on Friday when police clashed with supporters of the winner, leaving at least 30 people injured. Prashant Tamang, an ethnic Nepali youth from the eastern state of West Bengal, beat Amit Paul from Meghalaya state, inflaming regional rivalries.
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/ 28 September 2007
Eleven thousand people have fled Mogadishu this month because of intensified violence and the northern part of the Somali capital is becoming increasingly deserted, the United Nations refugee agency said on Friday. Northern Mogadishu is a stronghold of Islamist insurgents fighting Ethiopian troops supporting the transitional government in the Horn of Africa country.
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/ 28 September 2007
Opposition parties on Friday called for a commission of inquiry to investigate police National Commissioner Jackie Selebi and for President Thabo Mbeki to state categorically whether a warrant was issued for Selebi’s arrest. Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille said the seriousness of the situation should not be underestimated.
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/ 28 September 2007
The number of overcrowded schools has fallen from 51% in 1999 to 24% in 2006, Education Minister Naledi Pandor said on Friday. Further, ”the number of schools with electricity has increased from 11 174 in 1996 to 20 713 in 2006”, she said at the opening of Thengwe Secondary School in Limpopo.