One Jordanian was killed and at least seven Palestinians wounded as rising tensions between the rival Hamas and Fatah factions erupted into heavy fighting near Parliament in Gaza on Monday. A driver at the Jordanian representation was killed in the running gun battle close to the Legislative Council building.
Biodiversity policies must be integrated into economic decision-making for South Africa’s flora and wildlife to be conserved, says Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism Marthinus van Schalkwyk. He was speaking at the launch of the National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan in Port Elizabeth on Monday..
Winter will not be exceptionally cold, it will just be normal, Weather South Africa said on Monday. ”According to our models the temperatures will be normal for this time of year,” meteorologist Selebaleng Gaebee said. Last winter was exceptionally warm, which may explain why people feel the current cold weather more intensely.
Nepal’s interim government announced the long-awaited final names for an 18-member Cabinet on Monday but was immediately rocked when one minister refused to take her post. The top seven jobs were appointed 20 days ago, with 11 more names announced on Monday, including the education, tourism and water-resources portfolios, state-run media said.
Cell C has denied it was to blame for the problems experienced by the Vodacom network on Friday. ”Problems experienced were on Vodacom’s network and our understanding is that these were rectified by Vodacom’s engineers fixing their own network problems,” said Cell C head of communications Vanashree Pillay on Monday.
A searing indictment of former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi wrapped into a tender story of one man’s bid to overcome failure won a rapturous welcome from Cannes critics on Monday. Director Nanni Moretti’s film was released in March, just before the elections in which the conservative Berlusconi was narrowly ousted after five years in office.
Police in Chad have released the former head of an independent radio station, Tchanguiz Vatankhah, who was detained for more than three weeks for his political activities, a media body said on Monday. Vatankhah, who is president of the Chad Union of Privately Owned Radio Stations (URPT), was freed last Friday, said a URPT statement.
The retail sector in Europe outstrips other sectors with regard to the highest rate of paper wastage. A quarter of all pages in the workplace are printed for nothing, according to research conducted by Ipsos, on behalf of Lexmark. The survey, conducted between February and March this year, interviewed 2Â 837 office workers across Europe.
South African power utility Eskom on Monday announced that unit one at the Koeberg nuclear power station in the Western Cape had started delivering electricity to the national network again. The unit, which had been out of service since November 2005, returned to service last Wednesday, Eskom said.
Official opposition Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon took to the streets of Mitchells Plain on Monday, where his party is fighting a key by-election against Patricia de Lille’s Independent Democrats in the coloured working-class district of Tafelsig. He argued that voters were being given a chance to vote against De Lille’s flirtation with the African National Congress ”reign of ruin”.