A BBC cameraman was killed and a producer injured yesterday when they stepped on landmines while filming near the frontline in Kurdish northern Iraq.
For 14 years she has been known simply as the Central Park Jogger. Known to the nation not by her name, but by what she was doing and where she was doing it on April 19 1989 — the night she was beaten into a coma, brutally raped and left for dead in a pool of mud.
The Serb member of Bosnia’s three-man, multi-ethnic presidency resigned yesterday over illegal military supplies to Saddam Hussein.
Leading French politicians, apparently seeking to rebuild bridges with Washington, warned yesterday against mounting anti-Americanism in France and stressed that the US remained one of the country’s most valued allies.
Karamojong warriors believe it is their religious duty to ‘recover’ cattle from their neighbouring tribes. Heavy fighting has broken out at the Uganda-Kenya border between the Ugandan army and cattle-rustling Karamojong warriors.
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US aircraft hit a Red Crescent maternity hospital in Baghdad, the city’s trade fair, and other civilian buildings today, killing several people and wounding at least 25, hospital sources and a Reuters witness said.
The international watchdog Human Rights Watch has just released a report documenting the trafficking of children in Togo, in particular girls used as domestics and market vendors and boys made to work as labourers on farms.
The voracious appetite of Africans for news of the Iraq war has sent sales of satellite dishes and transistor radios soaring, even in the remotest corners of the world’s largest continent.
Government on Wednesday officially launched its Country Corruption Assessment Report (CCAR) on South Africa, but warned the document has ”serious shortcomings” and is based on inadequate data.