Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe on Monday told the US government to ”go hang” and said the US-led coalition’s operations in Iraq were ”a grave criminal act”.
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Concerned that the bloody conflict in the Ituri region of north-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and increasing tensions between Rwanda and Uganda might derail the recently signed inter-Congolese political settlement, President Thabo Mbeki has been manoeuvring to prevent this happening.
Treatment Action Campaign chairman Zachie Achmat will be honoured as a world hero in this week’s European edition of Time magazine, Die Burger reported on Monday.
Human rights organisations are protesting at the inclusion of countries with some of the worst records of abuses on a list of candidates for election to the main United Nations watchdog.
Intel Corporation has delayed initial shipments of the latest Pentium 4 microprocessor after a potential flaw was discovered in tests.
British Airways wants to resume scheduled flights from London to Baghdad as soon as stability returns to Iraq, its chief executive Rod Eddington said on Sunday.
Japanese electronics giant Sony on Monday unveiled a plan to invest ,7-billion in the next three years to boost semiconductor production for its next-generation computer games.
The sugar industry in the US is threatening to bring the World Health Organisation to its knees by demanding that Congress end its funding unless the WHO scraps guidelines on healthy eating, due to be published on Wednesday.
South African telecommunications parastatal Telkom (TKG) CEO Sizwe Nxasana has announced the resignation of Victor Moche as Telkom group executive for regulatory and public policy, effective at the end of April, in order to take up the position of CEO of government-owned defence group Denel.