Every day since he was secretly spirited into Iraq by the US military just over a week ago, Ahmed Chalabi, the man favoured by the Pentagon to succeed Saddam Hussein, has been holding court with local dignitaries in Nassiriya.
Five more Sars patients have died in Hong Kong, health officials said yesterday. The latest deaths from the flu-like, severe acute respiritory syndrome pushed Hong Kong’s total to 40 and, together with three more fatalities reported in Singapore, took the global toll to at least 133.
If economic growth "picks up very quickly", South Africa could run out of power by as early as 2007, a power regulation expert at the National Electricity Regulator (NER) told Parliament this week.
It seems to be an unavoidable fact of the human condition that former altar boys, especially the Catholic ones, end up being the best revolutionaries.
The flamboyant tycoon behind Mpumalanga’s infamous R50-billion Dolphin Deal has been arrested in Kenya after almost a decade on the run.
Mohammad Kaif struck an unbeaten 95 to power India to a 153-run victory over South Africa in the three-nation tournament here on Sunday.
KwaZulu-Natal Premier Lionel Mtshali is expected to make an announcement on Monday on whether he will bow to ANC threats and reinstate three ANC members of his provincial cabinet.
South African Trade and Industry Minister Alec Erwin says he will once again meet US pharmaceutical companies next month to help resolve the impasse over compulsory licensing of pharmaceutical products to third parties.
Rich and industrialised nations are failing to demonstrate leadership and are putting multilateral processes of world trade negotiation in jeopardy, South African Trade and Industry Minister Alec Erwin said on Monday.
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