The England and Wales Cricket Board came under renewed pressure to pull out of England’s World Cup match in Zimbabwe yesterday when Peter Hain, the Welsh minister, added his voice to those calling for a boycott.
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Rebels clashed on Monday with French forces in Ivory Coast’s war-torn West, firing mortars at positions held by French troops, a French army representative said.
A man charged with allegedly helping devise a right-wing plot to overthrow the government, was freed on R20 000 bail in the Pretoria Regional Court on Monday.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu criticised the United States on Sunday as an arrogant superpower bent on unilateral action, in an interview on the Iraq crisis to be telecast in Britain.
President George Bush is presiding over the most secretive administration in ‘living memory’, according to American civil rights groups and congressmen.
He is one of the most promising young pianists playing in Britain. Now he faces the threat of violent persecution after Britain refused his application for political asylum and decreed that he should return to his native Zimbabwe.
Greek Culture Minister Evangelos Venizelos has lashed out at British Museum director Neil McGregor over the latter’s alleged claim that the Elgin Marbles from the Parthenon should remain in London because they could never be reunited properly with the renowned Athens monument, news reports said on Saturday.
Tony Blair is to meet Palestinian leaders to press them into making widespread reforms of the Palestinian Authority as part of international efforts to kick-start the moribund Middle East peace process.
"Quiet diplomacy is the African way." Though this is a common refrain from the government, it’s not necessarily so as the African leader and statesman Julius Nyerere showed in the late Eighties.