Indonesian forces were yesterday accused of massacring civilians during a raid against separatist guerillas in Aceh province on Monday.
The Arab satellite channel al-Jazeera broadcast yesterday what it said was a tape from one of Osama bin Laden’s top aides urging Muslims to attack Americans, Jews and British interests.
Jayson Blair, the New York Times reporter whose fabricated and plagiarised stories continue to send shockwaves through one of America’s most influential newspapers, has boasted of his deceptions and branded the paper a racist ”snake pit”.
It’s a space lander the size of a portable barbecue, stapled to a mothership not much bigger than a household refrigerator, and it’s about to make history.
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Deputy President Jacob Zuma says he has no knowledge of anyone’s involvement in the editing of the final report on South Africa’s controversial arms deal which will see the air force and navy re-equipped with aircraft and corvettes.
Efforts by the Anti-Privatisation Forum (APF) to deliver a memorandum to the Chemical, Energy, Paper, Printing, Wood and Allied Workers Union (Ceppwawu) were thwarted when they were refused entry to the building in Johannesburg on Wednesday.
The South African Communist Party (SACP) has threatened to embark on mass action if the Banking Council of South Africa continued to oppose the implementation of the Community Reinvestment Bill.
The National Treasury has denied that spending by the Department of Home Affairs under its former director-general, Billy Masetlha, was irregular.
A US judge has named 24 groups to divide a -million settlement from McDonald’s over beef-laced french fries, resolving a dispute over which organisations would share in the awards.