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.
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.”
Human rights workers yesterday accused the US military of failing to protect and properly excavate the largest mass grave discovered in Iraq.
The lawyer representing the Guardian’s correspondent in Zimbabwe, Andrew Meldrum, was threatened with detention herself yesterday after she went on his behalf to the headquarters of the immigration service in Harare.
The Bush administration gave Saudi Arabia a rare public dressing down yesterday, accusing it of ignoring earlier requests to step up security at the sites of Monday night’s bombings, while Saudi intelligence sources admitted that the al-Qaeda suicide cell involved in the attacks had been under surveillance for nearly two months.
Astronomers say they have detected nearly two dozen more satellites orbiting Jupiter, bringing the number of moons encircling the Solar System’s greatest planet to an astonishing 112.
The era of ”heroic” fish — rod-busting marlin, great white sharks and mighty tuna, which inspired legends and novels — is well and truly over, according to the most complete study ever compiled of these species.
”Outrageously high” subsidies paid to farmers in rich countries had to be curtailed to enable those in the developing world to compete as equals, British foreign secretary Jack Straw said on Wednesday.
Scientists in Germany say an experimental drug for the common cold might also serve against Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars), while thousands of Chinese turn to the occult to ward off the disease as it enters China’s vulnerable countryside.
The national education department’s plan to outlaw additional remuneration and perks by school governing bodies is extremely shortsighted, the Democratic Alliance said on Wednesday.