A final round of talks beginning Tuesday aim to bring democracy to war-scarred Democratic Republic of Congo, but many doubt the government and rebels will manage to work together for peace.
The South African rand was trading close to a 21-month best level against the US dollar in mid-morning trade on Tuesday — testing 7,8377 against the greenback.
Aids might be an opportunity provided by God for South Africa to care for its people, its health minister, Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, told religious leaders yesterday in Johannesburg.
Cracks are appearing between British and American commanders which have serious implications for their future operations in Iraq.
With the war in Iraq threatening to last significantly longer than expected, US forces in the Gulf are in increasing danger of running out of some of their most important weapons in the air war.
US military officials have admitted they may send some of the prisoners captured in the Iraq war to the American detention camp at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.
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.