Malawi risks missing out on international financial aid unless its Parliament reconvenes to quickly approve a budget, the United Nations representative in Malawi warned on Monday. The budget debate adjourned indefinitely on Friday when speaker Rodwell Munyenyembe fell ill during a heated exchange over a motion to impeach President Bingu wa Mutharika.
Two United States journalists were on Monday night facing the possibility of spending 18 months in jail for refusing to reveal the identity of a source within the Bush administration who leaked the identity of a CIA agent. The supreme court on Monday in effect rejected an appeal from the reporters against the prison term when it refused to hear the case.
The All Blacks are not thugs and captain Tana Umaga would never deliberately maim anyone, coach Graham Henry said on Tuesday, showing frustation at the ongoing ”sideshow” over the tackle that dislocated the shoulder of the Lions captain in the first rugby Test.
President Thabo Mbeki is hosting Côte d’Ivoire leaders on Tuesday for a new round of talks aimed at reviving a stalled peace process in the war-divided West African nation. Two months after Côte d’Ivoire’s rebels and government signed the latest in a series of deals, the crisis in Côte d’Ivoire has only gotten worse.
The United States was in the grip of shark fever on Monday after second attack in three days off the Florida panhandle, in which a teenage boy lost a leg. Craig Hutto (16) of Lebanon, Tennessee, was taken to Bay Medical Centre in Panama City, where his leg was amputated.
Scientists should on Tuesday finally get the go-ahead to build a prototype nuclear fusion reactor which could offer a clean source of unlimited energy. Ministers are expected to announce at a meeting in Moscow that a -billion experimental reactor, designed to prove the new type of nuclear power is commercially viable, will be built in France.
Police have arrested three South African women accused of trying to leave Brazil with nearly 30kg of cocaine stashed in their suitcases, authorities said on Monday. Stela Khumalo, Patricia Motsoeneng and Roberta Putteing were taken into custody on Saturday night at Sao Paulo’s International airport as they were preparing to board a flight to Johannesburg.
”It is simply undeniable that the state of Israel is a settler-colonial undertaking, where Jews have constituted themselves as a majority by immigration, military force and legal device — including a bar on the return of Palestinian refugees,” writes member of the Cape Town Progressive Jewish Congregation, Rabbi David Hoffman.
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A night vigil will be held in Durban on Tuesday night for former deputy president Jacob Zuma. It will be supported by members of the Congress of SA Trade Unions (Cosatu), the African National Congress Youth League, the South African Communist Party and others as a show of solidarity.
Lleyton Hewitt is adamant that his fiery willingness to argue and dispute decisions does not give him an unfair edge over infuriated opponents. The 24-year-old Australian has never been far from controversy in his career and during his 6-4, 6-4, 6-7 (7/9), 6-3 fourth round Wimbledon win over Taylor Dent on Monday, the sparks were flying again.