A war has been declared on mosquitoes in two Indian states where an unidentified virus has caused the death of 164 children over the past month, officials said on Wednesday.
Some have remained silent for 30 years. But now the Samburu and Masaai women, as well as their young men, are coming forward to tell their stories: how they were raped and sodomised by British soldiers on manoeuvres in northern Kenya.
Saddam Hussein and his key lieutenants are to face a new war crimes court, one of the parties in Iraq’s new power-sharing council announced yesterday.
Tourists normally avoid authoritarian nations such as Myanmar, but industry officials say their ideas — and their money – could be key to bringing down repressive regimes.
While consumers fret about where the next batch of poisoned foodstuffs will be found on supermarket shelves, conservationists are debating the introduction of a lethal poison to counter ”problem” wildlife.
On the eve of the progressive governance conference in London, German leader Gerhard Schröder argues that globalisation is a reality and Social Democrats must accept this and alter their policies.
South Africa’s Bureau for Economic Research has revised downward its forecast for real economic growth for the country in 2003 to 2,2% y/y from 2,6% previously, due to the stronger-than-expected slowdown experienced over the first half of the year.
Twenty-four years after a local boy called Saddam Hussein came to power, later dragging Iraq into three ruinous wars, Tikrit residents still have time for the man they say at least knew how to keep order.
A tiny species of toad whose only known habitat is the misty banks of Tanzania’s Kihanzi river has been saved from extinction at the hands of the safari ant and thirsty hyro-power, a conservationist reported on Tuesday.