The World Court on Tuesday ruled France may continue to investigate the Republic of Congo’s interior minister for alleged crimes against humanity committed in the African country, until it hears the case in full.
The United States’s ambition to do what it takes to remain the world’s only superpower is at least as unsettling for its friends as for its potential foes, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute said on Tuesday.
Pilot anti-retroviral therapy projects could serve as models when the state scales up treatment sites.
Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe may finally be ready to step down ”within a year”, according to a report in Business Day.
A deeply divided International Whaling Commission voted to beef up efforts to protect whales, a step greeted as a historic shift by conservation groups but denounced by Japan and its pro-whaling allies.
Junior South African gold company Randgold & Exploration on Tuesday announced that it had sold one million of its shares in London listed Randgold Resources, thereby reducing its stake in the company from 48,2% to 45%.
Former US president Bill Clinton said he hopes to use his foundation to treat at least 700 000 Aids patients in Africa and the Caribbean — and possibly many more during the next five years.
The leading supplier of the computer servers that fuelled the dot-com boom, Sun Microsystems Inc. has fallen victim to the commoditisation of the computers that do corporate America’s heavy lifting.
The government unequivocally supported and respected the independence of the judiciary, Justice Minister Penuell Maduna said in a statement.
A funny thing is happening within the Anglican communion. It is threatening to tear itself apart over a handful of people who live in monogamous, stable, long-term, loving relationships and are sufficiently religiously observant to want the church to bless them.