Iran has hinted that it could follow North Korea in abrogating its nuclear pledges if Washington took the ayatollahs to the United Nations Security Council because of suspicions about its nuclear programmes. Speaking at a nuclear technology conference in Tehran, Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator, Hassan Rowhani, voiced frustration with EU attempts to defuse the nuclear dispute.
The crimes of Croatia’s past are holding the country’s future hostage, a decade after the wars that destroyed Yugoslavia. Croatia’s most wanted war crimes suspect, a 49-year-old general, has been on the run for almost four years. Unless he is located and arrested within 10 days the European Union will refuse to open membership negotiations with Croatia.
A Bill against Taiwanese independence, which is to be put before the Chinese legislature, brought more than 15 000 protesters on to the streets of Taipei on Sunday, amid fears that it will be used by Beijing to justify military action. The contents of the anti-secession law will be made public later this week.
”Get with the programme,” says Maurice Rosenberg, race-car preparer and fleet vehicle management consultant. Along with Peter Prunzel, Rosenberg’s Strydom Park workshop has had to acquire the latest in electronic wizardry to help cope with the plethora of modern motor vehicles that boast advanced electronics.
The African music industry is in for a long overdue facelift. MTV base — MTV’s African music channel — kicked off with all the appropriate glitz and glamour last week. Nadine Botha takes a closer look.
He is world famous, and there is no doubt he cares passionately about development. Bono, the Irish rock singer, has many qualifications to be the next president of the World Bank — overseeing global development efforts, a job that becomes vacant in June when James Wolfensohn resigns.
The Lions made short work of the Dolphins on the final day of their Supersport Series match at the Wanderers on Sunday, clinching a victory over the previously unbeaten visitors by an innings and 130 runs. The Lions took took control from the start, when Willie Motaung and Adam Bacher compiled the season’s highest first-wicket partnership of 178.
Eight civil society bodies on Sunday urged President Thabo Mbeki and his Cabinet not to let the Directorate of Special Operations, commonly known as the Scorpions, to fall under the police’s control. They said the elite agency ”is unique in that it can analyse, investigate and prosecute” anyone irrespective of their public standing”.
More than 90 countries or disputed territories are contaminated by unexploded weapons, and more than 50 by anti-vehicle mines, according to the first global survey of their impact on civilians, aid workers and peacekeepers, published on Monday.
The former Italian hostage who saw her rescuer shot dead at a United States checkpoint in Baghdad said on Sunday they might have been targeted because of US objections to Italy’s policy of negotiating with kidnappers. Giuliana Sgrena, a reporter for the far-left daily Il Manifesto, was wounded as bullets ripped into the car taking her to Baghdad airport to be flown out of Iraq.