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/ 7 February 2006
Petrol bombings of government targets in Swaziland continue unabated despite the arrest of 16 members of banned political organisations in connection with the attacks. At the weekend, two flats belonging to police officers at a police housing development in the capital, Mbabane, were fire bombed.
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/ 7 February 2006
Oil giant BP on Tuesday announced record annual profits of ,3-billion, up 25% despite a fall in production after hurricane damage in the Gulf of Mexico. Like its rivals Shell and ExxonMobil, the world’s second-largest oil firm benefited from the soaring price of crude oil last year.
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/ 7 February 2006
Chaos erupted outside the Vereeniging Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday morning when six people accused of murdering three laundry workers were released on bail. Emotions ran high outside the courtroom, with black protesters dancing in the streets and throwing stones at the cars of family members of the white accused.
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/ 7 February 2006
Muslim protesters infuriated by cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad have raised the diplomatic stakes as Iran’s best-selling newspaper said it would retaliate by running images satirising the Holocaust. The decision by the Hamshari paper to launch a competition to find the most suitable caricatures came as demonstrators hurled firebombs at the Danish embassy in Tehran.
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/ 7 February 2006
South African farmers called for compromise on Tuesday after the lands commissioner said that large-scale expropriation of farms would start next month. ”It is in everyone’s interest that land claims be completed as soon as possible but it needs to take place in a fair manner,” said Annelize Crosby, land affairs adviser at Agri South Africa.
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/ 7 February 2006
Japan learned on Tuesday that the wife of the emperor’s second son is pregnant, throwing a sudden question mark over controversial moves to end male-only succession in the world’s oldest monarchy. No boy has been born to the imperial family since 1965, spelling crisis for an imperial line that legend holds has been uninterrupted for more than 2 600 years.
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/ 7 February 2006
The recurring spillage of sewage into the Vaal River is a result of the over-utilisation of outdated infrastructure, the Emfuleni municipality said on Tuesday. It was reacting to a report in a Johannesburg daily newspaper that three environmental organisations are threatening legal action.
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/ 7 February 2006
A nurse facing murder and manslaughter charges went on trial on Tuesday over the deaths of 29 patients in what has been described as the biggest series of killings in Germany since the end of World War II. Stephan Letter (27) could face life in prison if the Bavarian state court in Kempten convicts him on 16 counts of murder, 12 of manslaughter and one of mercy killing.
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/ 7 February 2006
A government study of the health department has found that public hospitals are ”highly stressed institutions” owing to staff shortages, unmanageable workloads and management failures, says South African Public Service and Administration Minister Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi.
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/ 7 February 2006
Israel on Tuesday vowed to continue its policy of targeting Palestinian militants after the air force conducted a third deadly strike on the Gaza Strip in less than three days. Seven Palestinian militants have been killed in a series of air strikes since Sunday, sparked by rocket attacks on Israel.