China’s judiciary issued an interpretation of the country’s infectious diseases law on Thursday that calls for execution or life imprisonment for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome patients who violate quarantine restrictions.
The Dutch Reformed Church minister who officiated when former president FW de Klerk married his first wife, Marike, on Thursday testified in the Cape High Court about the former first lady.
British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has lauded the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (Nepad) as the epitome of multilateralism, which would result in a peaceful and prosperous continent.
Ahmed Abdullah Sallal was 10 years old when his cousin put a knife in his hand and ordered him to kill a man.
Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma lower house of parliament on Thursday that would offer an amnesty to rebels in Russia’s war-torn republic of Chechnya, the Kremlin said.
The European Commission said on Wednesday it has agreed a new â,¬13-million (-million) aid package for Zimbabwe to counter drought and food shortages.
A packed Nelson Mandela auditorium at Cape Town’s V&A Waterfront listened intently as several former Robben Island prisoners regaled the audience with island stories at the official launch of Pan Africanist Congress leader Stanley Mogoba’s book.
At least 10 people were killed and about 100 wounded, most of them women and children, on Wednesday as fierce clashes rocked the northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo town of Bunia, said a UN representative, as fears mounted of a humanitarian disaster.
Human rights workers yesterday accused the US military of failing to protect and properly excavate the largest mass grave discovered in Iraq.
The United Nations’ top refugee official condemned Liberia’s handling of its growing humanitarian crisis on Wednesday, telling top leaders, ”You’re killing your own people.”