A British Royal Marine was killed in action in today when his boat was ambushed in southern Iraq.
Yesterday afternoon a man in glasses and a large helmet stood by a ditch in Iraq, trying to communicate with a group of farmers.
Where Ashraf Sadak’s house had once stood there was yesterday merely a large crater.
American values are at stake. Really, what values? That is the response of many; contempt for the United States has never been higher. Asked, as I was last week, by a group of Americans how the world sees their country, one is forced to reply: you are detested.
They call South Africa’s electoral method by a fine-sounding name, “proportional representation”, in order to cover up the fact that it’s actually a bag of extremely smelly political bones that has far less to do with the practical implementation of democratic ideals than it has with keeping one’s party cronies safely in the driving seats of all those tasteful Mercedes and Pajeros.
Though 70% of Americans in the United States back their president’s decision to go to war and approve of the way he is handling the situation in Iraq, most expatriates living in South Africa appear to be ashamed of George W Bush.
Mira Markovic has absconded to Russia and is likely to face an international arrest warrant in connection with political murders ordered by her husband Slobodan Milosevic’s regime, the Serbian authorities said at the weekend.
A hard-hitting report by the Commonwealth Secretariat stating conclusively that the Zimbabwe government has maintained state-sponsored human rights abuses is to be delivered to all member heads of government this week.
Anti-war campaigners called for an immediate withdrawal of British troops from Iraq yesterday as the number of civilian casualties continued to grow to more than 400.