Iraq’s oil exports were shut down on Monday by a power cut that darkened parts of central and southern Iraq, including the country’s only functioning oil export terminals, oil officials said. Exports through the country’s other main route, the northern export pipeline to Turkey, have long been halted by incessant sabotage.
Blue Bulls flanker forward Danie Rossouw will join the Springbok rugby squad on Tuesday in Dunedin after he received the call on Saturday night to replace his injured provincial teammate Pedrie Wannenburg. Wannenburg returned home after he sustained an injury to his lower back during the Springbok’s penultimate training session before the Tri-Nations clash with the Wallabies.
Six youth organisations on Sunday condemned last week’s raids on the houses and associates of former deputy president Jacob Zuma. The organisations said they doubted if Zuma would have a fair trial and congratulated his body guards for ”attempting to redeem the dignity of our deputy president”.
Thousands of Zimbabweans made homeless by the government’s slum clearance are living in ”desperate” conditions, according to a clandestine video smuggled out and released by Amnesty International. The video was made earlier this month at Hopley Farm, outside Harare, and shows a makeshift camp with tents of sheeting.
A Kenyan Cabinet minister has made an outspoken attack on white settlers, telling a public rally that farmers of British origin ”will have to go away”, in the latest spat in a feud with the British government over allegations of corruption. Transport Minister Chris Murungaru, who launched the attack at a public rally at the weekend, was banned from travelling to Britain last month.
Parisian book-lovers desirous of a dose of Dumas in the dead of night or some Stendhal on a Sunday can turn to a new development in automated distribution — the book vending machine. Five bright yellow Livre à toute heure machines, stocking 25 contemporary and classic titles, have been installed around the city over the past six weeks.
FBI agents have thwarted an alleged plan by an Ohio couple to sell a 15-year-old girl in exchange for a packet of cocaine. Police say Pamela Tilley and Gregory Lowery drove about 110km from their home to hand the girl over to a drugs dealer in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where she was destined to become a child prostitute.
The executions are carried out at dawn on Haqlania bridge, the entrance to Haditha. A small crowd usually turns up to watch even though the killings are filmed and made available on DVD in the market the same afternoon. One of last week’s victims was a young man in a black tracksuit.
Global positive sentiment looks set to help the JSE start the week on a firm footing, despite a slightly firmer rand. By 8.45am, near-dated all share index futures (Alsis) were 73 points higher at 14 195 after 49 contracts had changed hands, while industrial index futures (Indis) were untraded after finishing at 11 616. The rand was […]
Cape Biotech is investigating a possible bio-prospecting partnership which would enable South Africa, Brazil and India to share each other’s resources in order to capitalise on their rich biodiversity. Bio-prospecting is the search for valuable compounds in nature — plants, animals or micro-organisms — that can assist in the development of new drugs or industrial products.