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Three Sunnis working on the draft of Iraq’s new Constitution were gunned down in Baghdad on Tuesday, rattling hopes expressed earlier in the day that the new charter might be completed ahead of schedule. At least 31 people were killed on Tuesday in Iraq violence, police and military officials said.
Flights at Johannesburg International airport will be disrupted when aviation members of the United Association of South Africa (Uasa) embark on industrial action from Wednesday after a deadlock in negotiations, Uasa said on Tuesday. Uasa is the largest representative union of ground staff and cabin crew at South African Airways.
Despite the executive committee of the Eastern Province Rugby Union (EPRU) having been suspended, rugby will continue as usual, the EPRU said on Tuesday. Crisis talks took place at the EPRU Stadium on Tuesday after the committee was temporarily relieved of its powers late on Monday evening.
Around the outskirts of the Israeli village of Kfar Maimon, police vehicles and water cannons patrol. Tens of thousands of would-be marchers, angered at the settlement pull-out plan due to swing into action on August 17, spent the night in Kfar Maimon following the first showdown with the Israeli authorities on Monday.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair said on Tuesday he is ”anxious” for Pakistani authorities to crack down on hard-line Islamic schools, which some of the London bombers are thought to have attended. Britain has been working with the Pakistani government to take measures against such schools, Blair told reporters in London.
Leigh Matthews’s father, Rob, said on Tuesday his family is ready to testify at the trial of Donovan Moodley, who allegedly kidnapped and murdered the 21-year-old university student. According to the indictment, all the members of the Matthews family will give evidence at the trial, which starts on Monday.
A Northern Cape man lost part of his tongue when he tried to grab and kiss a woman in Galeshewe in Kimberley, Northern Cape police said on Tuesday. A police spokesperson said the incident happened on Sunday when the man tried to overpower a woman at her house in Tidimalo Street in Club 2000 in Galeshewe.
Hurricane Emily on Tuesday was expected to strengthen as it headed towards Texas or Mexico over the warm Gulf of Mexico. Meanwhile, more than a million people fled their homes along China’s south-eastern coast as Typhoon Haitang slammed into the mainland on Tuesday.
Unless a baby is born head first and face upwards, many communities in northern Benin believe the child is a witch or sorcerer. And tradition demands that the infant must be killed, sometimes by dashing its brains out against a tree trunk. If the parents are compassionate, the baby is simply abandoned to die in the bush.