Officials from six nations held a seventh day of talks on Monday, after China presented a second draft joint statement of principles on ending North Korea’s nuclear-weapons programme. United States negotiators held more bilateral talks with North Korea and plan to continue talks on Tuesday, a US official said.
Women from different Iraqi rights groups met on Monday to issue a list of demands they believe will guarantee women’s rights in the country’s new Constitution. The informal group issued a six-point statement demanding, among others, that Islamic law, or sharia, is not one of the sources of the Constitution.
South African church leaders expect to meet President Thabo Mbeki soon to discuss the United Nations report on Zimbabwe’s clean-up operations, believed to have affected about 700Â 000 people. Anglican Archbishop Njongonkulu Ndungane and other leaders on Monday blessed consignments of humanitarian aid destined for Zimbabwe.
A team of divers is searching at the bottom of the Baie des Ha! Ha! in north-eastern Canada for 800kg of cheddar sunk by an entrepreneur hoping to revolutionise cheesemaking. Dairy owner Luc Boivin was inspired by a fisherman’s tale to dunk 10 barrels of cheddar into the water to test the effects of cool temperatures and high pressure.
Nokia maintained its robust lead in the world cellphone market in the second quarter as sales of entry-level units boosted overall shipment numbers, a technology research house said on Monday. IDC said global shipments of cellphones totalled 188,7-million units in the three months to June, up 16,3% from a year ago and 7,3% from the previous quarter.
The police described in detail on Monday how they monitored a London bombing suspect’s cellphone calls before arresting him in Rome and said his extradition to Britain would not take long. Italian police also said the Briton falsified his name and nationality when applying for asylum in Britain years ago.
Opposition parties on Monday stepped up their attack on individuals allegedly involved in the Oilgate scandal. The Freedom Front Plus laid charges against Imvume Management, the company at the centre of the scandal, on Monday and the Democratic Alliance is to meet the National Prosecuting Authority about the matter.
The Consumer Goods Council of South Africa (CGCSA) asked the Department of Health on Monday to update its list of products containing the carcinogenic Sudan Red food dye, saying such products had already been removed from shelves and production lines.
World oil prices jumped above per barrel on Monday, mainly on concerns about possible supply shortages during the fourth quarter, as markets shrugged off the death of King Fahd of Saudi Arabia. New York’s main contract, light sweet crude for delivery in September, climbed to ,02 per barrel in electronic dealing.
We have not stifled debate Rena Singer asserts that the Kaiser Family Foundation has stifled the Aids debate in South Africa (”Is loveLife making them love life?”, August 19). This is unfounded and untrue. The foundation’s 20-year record in South Africa clearly demonstrates that we have invested substantially in encouraging broader and better informed public […]