Libyan leader Moammar Gadaffi has threatened to throw out Italian companies if Rome did not pay compensation for its 32-year colonial rule. "Italy will lose its interests in Libya if it ignores the signed agreements with regard to these indemnities," Gadaffi said at a women’s festival in Misrata, 200 kilometres east of Tripoli.
The Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism on Tuesday called on Southern African Development Community countries to adopt a co-ordinated approach to phase out the use of leaded fuel.
The Pentagon has been selling surplus laboratory equipment that could be used to make biological or chemical weapons, according to a congressional investigation released yesterday.
Convicted murderers with severe mental health problems can be forced to take drugs that would make them clinically sane so that they can be executed, the US Supreme Court has ruled. Opponents of the death penalty yesterday described the court’s decision to uphold an earlier ruling on the issue — without debating it — as shocking.
The route up to Osman Ocalan’s headquarters, nestled in the rugged cliffs of the Qandilmountain high on the Iraq-Iran border, is treacherous yet surprisingly busy. Mule trains bearing the party faithful weave their way up precipitous paths, through dwarf oak and walnut trees, sheets of corrugated iron lashed across their backs like metal wings.
Yasser Arafat has suffered a mild heart attack but the Palestinian leadership has sought to keep his health problems secret for fear it will ”create panic”. The 74-year-old Palestinian president, who is suffering from Parkinson’s disease, disappeared from public view last week and re-emerged at the weekend looking extremely ill.
Anti-Mafia detectives edged one step closer yesterday to catching Sicily’s most notorious godfather, Bernardo Provenzano, after they arrested a key associate who is thought to have been in close contact with the fugitive leader of Cosa Nostra. Salvatore Sciarrabba (53) was seized in a dawn raid on a flat in Palermo.
California Governor Gray Davis, ousted in a stunning recall vote on Tuesday, spent three decades steadily climbing the ladder of state politics only to be bumped off after reaching the top by the ”Terminator” Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Burundian President Domitien Ndayizeye and the leader of the strife-torn central African country’s largest Hutu rebel group signed an agreement in Pretoria early on Wednesday to implement a ceasefire deal hammered out late last year.
South Africa’s fortress in Fremantle doesn’t take kindly to my type. Poms, rooineks, colonial masters. Call us what you will. But when I snuck in to the Esplanade Hotel this morning it was like being a red-coated extra in a Boer War drama. Thing is, the Boks have got hangers-on like Gert Smal and Ray Mordt: two ex-players who can peel paint with one sneer.