General Pervez Musharraf, facing a surge of anti-American sentiment, on Thursday warned that covert Untied States air strikes against al-Qaeda inside Pakistan were an infringement of national sovereignty. Admitting that his popularity was waning, the Pakistani president insisted he was ”not a poodle” of United States President George Bush.
Silvio Berlusconi’s hopes of grabbing back power will on Friday night be laid on the hunched shoulders of an 87-year-old politician who until a few years ago was battling charges of murder and mafia involvement. Giulio Andreotti will on Thursday attempt to scotch the centre-left’s plans to form a government with the razor-thin majority it won in this month’s general election.
Chicago is not famous for being squeamish about food. Its slaughterhouses once turned it into the meat production capital of the world, earning the nickname Porkopolis. But that was then. On Friday, Chicago has taken a lead in humane food production. The city council voted this week to ban the production and sale of foie gras, the first US city to do so.
A national embargo has been placed on the issuing of routine passports as no new passport blanks are available for processing, media reports said on Friday. A former senior Department of Home Affairs official said the handful of new passports still held by the department have now been reserved for ”emergency cases”.
Veteran marathon runner Wally Hayward has died at the age of 97, the Comrades Marathon Association said on Friday. Hayward’s athletic career spanned a period of 60 years, during which he competed and excelled at distances from 100m to 100 miles, the association said in a statement.
Veteran marathon runner Wally Hayward has died at the age of 97, the Comrades Marathon Association said on Friday. Hayward’s athletic career spanned a period of 60 years, during which he competed and excelled at distances from 100m to 100 miles, the association said in a statement.
Two South African pilots were killed on Thursday when their plane crashed on approach to the town of Lubutu in the northern regions of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The pilots died when the South African-registered Convair 580 aircraft they were piloting fell from the sky on approach to the Amisi airport at Lubutu.
In response to at least a dozen e-mails and letters asking, sometimes desperately, for help, this week’s Loose Cannon takes the form of an Agony column, giving judicious advice to those in need.
After David Livingstone and Henry Stanley, the trickle of missionaries and explorers with thick moustaches, some good, most bad, became a flood. Livingstone’s quest for a ”free, civilised and Christian” Africa, not in the least hampered by his lack of discussion with the Africans themselves, became the beacon for a motley crew of chancers from Europe.
Senior African National Congress officials, including President Thabo Mbeki, paid their last respects to anti-apartheid activist Ellen Kuzwayo at the St John’s Anglican Parish in Soweto on Friday. Mbeki told hundreds of mourners that this country is free because people like Kuzwayo refused to succumb to despair.