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The incidence of HIV/Aids infection among adults in Zimbabwe has dropped by nearly 10% in three years, according to figures released on Thursday by the government of President Robert Mugabe.
Senior Hamas leader Ismail Abu Shanab had been planning attacks against Israel despite the group’s stated adherence to a truce, a senior Israeli security source said after his killing on Thursday.
Auditor General Shauket Fakie on Thursday rebuffed claims that arms-deal investigators glossed over alleged irregularities in the procurement process. He also quashed an accusation that a subcontractor was allowed to drop its price to secure a deal after the "tender" had closed.
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Ali Hassan al-Majid, the Iraqi commander known as ”Chemical Ali”, has been captured and is in custody in the United States, a US defence official said on Thursday.
The misuse of the apostrophe and the appropriate use of the hyphen — questions that have plagued teachers of English and editors for generations — could soon be at an end.
The Palestinian militant group Hamas on Thursday officially declared its ceasefire finished after an Israeli air strike killed one of its top leaders.
Top Hamas man was ‘directing attacks’
At least 120 people, most of them fighters in the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army, have been killed in northern Uganda in the past fortnight, the army said on Thursday.
In what it calls a world first, South Africa’s biggest retail bank, Absa, on Wednesday launched a portable device that enables the bank’s staff or agents to capture accounts, issue debit cards and select PINs in areas where people have limited access to a physical bank branch.
Transtel and Eskom Enterprises, which will own the 30% state owned enterprises (SOE) stake in South Africa’s proposed second network telephone operator (SNO), say the lack of certainty and inadequacy regarding certain issues surrounding the SNO lead them to believe alternative plans should be investigated.