Eighty-one residents of Ezibeleni near Queenstown were to appear in the local magistrate’s court on Friday following an outbreak of vigilante action in which buildings were torched and one person died. They would face charges of public violence, murder, attempted murder and assault, police said.
Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, said Tibetans in his homeland are still suffering from ”repression forces” in a swipe at China, a newspaper report said. ”The Tibetans living in Tibet are less fortunate than their counterparts living in India as they have to suffer a lot in their motherland from repression forces,” the Asian Age quoted the Buddhist leader as saying.
Foreign Minister Gianfranco Fini on Friday expressed his ”most sincere gratitude” to his Yemeni counterpart at the release of five Italian hostages who had been held by Yemeni tribesmen. ”This experience can only reinforce the ties of friendship that have traditionally united Italy and Yemen,” he said.
Ariel Sharon was only 25 when he first attracted attention and controversy — and at the very highest level. It was October 1953, and the young army officer was summoned by David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s then prime minister. Lieutenant Sharon had just commanded a raid against a West Bank village called Qibya, a reprisal for the murder of an Israeli woman and two children.
Staff from the Windows on the World restaurant, which was at the top of one of the World Trade Centre towers, were on Thursday night celebrating a new start with the opening of Colors in Manhattan’s East Village. Colors is owned and staffed by former Windows employees who lost 73 colleagues in the 9/11 attacks.
The United States ambassador fled a central Afghan town after a Taliban suicide bomber killed 10 people and wounded 50, further stoking fears of an Iraqi influence on the escalating insurgency. Ronald E Neumann was not hurt when a man exploded a landmine strapped to his body about one and a half kilometres from the governor’s office in Tirin Kot, capital of Uruzgan province.
Coverage of Aids in Africa typically focuses on the dire situation in countries south of the Sahara, which are home to almost two thirds of people infected with HIV globally, according to the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/Aids. But what of the countries that lie further north and along the Mediterranean? In the case of one of these nations, Algeria, concern about the pandemic is mounting.
Swazi police have arrested a 14th opposition activist for treason related to a spate of petrol-bomb attacks against courthouses and police officers late last year, officials said on Friday. Bonginkose Dlamini, the secretary general of the opposition People’s United Democratic Movement, was arrested on Thursday evening.
For the second time in two weeks, the United Nations mission monitoring the border between Ethiopia and Eritrea has reported movements of troops on both sides of the border on Friday, despite an earlier order from the UN Security Council to pull back or face sanctions.
A female husky dog saved the life of a Taiwanese newborn by snatching him from the toilet after his mother gave birth alone at home and collapsed, a social worker said on Friday. The 24-year-old single mother, identified only as Huang, did not feel well on Sunday and went to the bathroom without realising she was in labour.