War on Iraq will create ”100 Bin Ladens”, the Egyptian president, Hosni Mubarak, warned yesterday as hundreds of Arab volunteers streamed to Baghdad pledging ”martyrdom operations” against US and British forces.
The veteran American war correspondent and Pulitzer prize winning television reporter, Peter Arnett, was sacked yesterday after he told Iraqi television that US military plans against Saddam Hussein were failing.
The first American conscientious deserter from the Iraq war will give himself up at a marine base in California this morning. He said he believed the war was ”immoral because of the deception involved by our leaders”.
The Vatican published an ethical dictionary yesterday saying homosexuality has ”no social value”, warning against concepts such as ”safe sex” and ”reproductive health” and insisting that condoms don’t protect against sexually transmitted diseases.
China cut off oil supplies to North Korea for three days last month to punish its oldest ally for the nuclear standoff with the United States, diplomats said yesterday.
Zimbabwe’s main opposition party celebrated crucial byelection victories in the capital yesterday, billing them as a springboard for mass action to topple President Robert Mugabe.
Malawi’s President Bakili Muluzi is to step down next year, abandoning attempts to change the constitution to allow him to run for a third five-year term.
American soldiers shot dead seven women and children yesterday when their car failed to stop at a checkpoint in southern Iraq, US military officials said last night.
A disagreement has broken out at a senior level within the Bush administration over a new government that the US is secretly planning in Kuwait to rule Iraq in the immediate period after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein.
A representative for US central command today backed soldiers who shot seven women and children at a checkpoint and blamed the Iraqi regime for the killings.