Nigeria said on Thursday that a number of military officers had been arrested following reports of a coup plot against the president, Olusegun Obasanjo. The president’s spokesperson, Remi Oyo, said ”serious breaches of security”, had prompted an investigation which led to the arrests.
Long before I arrived at the Iraq frontier I was thoroughly alarmed. On our 320km desert drive through Jordan, my driver, Ziad, wound me up. ”Near Baghdad,” he said, ”many Ali Baba! Three hundred kilometres, very bad!” The previous night, waiting at Heathrow for a long-delayed plane to Amman, I’d seen the news: four unarmed Americans killed driving through the Iraqi town of Falluja.
Axed captain Heath Streak has threatened to sue the Zimbabwe Cricket Union for what he sees as his unjustified removal from the national captaincy. After failing to get ZCU chairman Peter Chingoka and chief executive Vincent Hogg to reinstall him at a meeting on Thursday, Streak said before returning to his Bulawayo farm on Friday that he would be consulting his lawyers.
Just one month after taking office in 2001, United States President George Bush bluntly told Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf to bring terror kingpin Osama bin Laden to justice, the official September 11 inquiry was told on Thursday. Musharraf was also told to abandon support for the Taliban rulers of Afghanistan.
Sudan rejected on Thursday world pressure, led by United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan, for international intervention in the war-torn western region of Darfur, insisting it is taking its own steps to rein in government-sponsored militias accused of ethnic cleansing.
The countrywide strike of airport baggage handlers, which started on December 18, has been resolved, the Congress of South African Trade Unions said on Thursday. Workers will get a 12% wage increase and a 2% performance incentive, and all workers dismissed during the strike will be reinstated.
Eight South Koreans and three Japanese were kidnapped by insurgents in Iraq, and captors armed with automatic rifles and swords threatened on Thursday to burn the Japanese alive if Tokyo does not withdraw from the United States-led coalition. The group calls itself the ”Mujahedeen Squadrons”.
You are a junior nurse and the specialist surgeon constantly makes suggestive advances, but you keep quiet for fear of recrimination — this is the sort of scenario a sexual harassment campaign aims to address at Groote Schuur hospital. The hospital launched its campaign on Thursday.
At least 29 police officers were killed and many others injured when several landmines exploded in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand, news reports said on Thursday. The blasts occurred on Wednesday night when a convoy of about 150 police officers triggered the landmines in a forest.