Hamas delivered a blow to the Palestinian prime minister’s attempts to end attacks on Israel yesterday by breaking off all talks hours before a fresh round of negotiations aimed at establishing a ceasefire.
President Thabo Mbeki drew on Mahatma Gandhi for inspiration on Friday night in a new call for an end to corruption and dishonesty, which he said prejudiced the poor.
The Democratic Alliance on Friday laid a theft charge against the New National Party over what it said were several hundred stolen election poster boards.
De Beers Diamond Mining Company and the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) signed a joint HIV/Aids workplace policy on Friday.
Iraqis carrying hammers and axes yesterday began to demolish a police station in the troubled city of Falluja in a public act of defiance against the US military.
Ageing Russian single-hulled oil tankers are threatening to cause a catastrophe in the Baltic sea, President Vladimir Putin has been warned by his neighbours and the European Union.
Relations between Zimbabwe and the International Monetary Fund reached a new low with the Fund’s decision to suspend its membership rights.
The embattled former president of Zambia, Frederick Chiluba, faces a second arrest for a new round of charges after evidence of his possible involvement in a multimillion dollar case of theft from the government surfaced on Friday, police said.
Police fired on rioters, killing one person, after so-called Hindu ”untouchables” and rich Sikh farmers clashed with swords and iron rods and set fire to vehicles, leaving 20 injured, police said on Friday.