The Iraqi president, Saddam Hussein, today made a defiant speech on Iraqi television declaring that he was ready for war. In a pre-recorded address on Iraq’s Army Day, he accused the UN inspectors of being spies, called his enemies the ”friends and helpers of Satan” and said he was ”prepared for anything”.
Asda may be powering ahead but its parent Wal-Mart and fellow US retailers have had a tough Christmas season.
Robert Rubin, the chairman of Citigroup, has been cleared of any wrongdoing in urging a senior US treasury official to intervene on behalf of Enron as the energy group spiralled toward bankruptcy.
The South African government criticised Australia on Friday for issuing a ”generalised” public warning about possible terror attacks in SA, without using normal diplomatic channels.
Exactly 111 years since the birth of writer J.R.R. Tolkien in Bloemfontein, the Free State capital now aims to convert itself into a site of pilgrimage for the thousands of enthusiasts worldwide captivated by the fantasy world of Middle Earth.
President George Bush yesterday readied US troops for ”crucial hours” ahead in the crisis over Iraq, denouncing Saddam Hussein for showing contempt for the UN as the Pentagon ordered the dispatch of thousands of marines to the Gulf.
Hunting with bows and poisoned arrows over the bleached sands of the Kalahari, it was sometimes days before the San bushmen had food or water. So precarious was survival that some believed their god was a ”trickster” who played jokes with the land and their fate.
I used to know roughly where I was with French youth-speak. If you heard a word you didn’t understand, there was a fair chance that if you split it up into its component syllables and then inverted them, you’d end up with something Molière might have recognised.
Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo on Friday agreed to ground helicopter gunships and expel mercenaries imported to fight rebels battling his government, telling French radio that he was ready for ”total ceasefire”.
South African wheat imports are set to slow or even come to a halt from early April 2003 until at least early August 2003 following the acquisition by the country’s millers of between 500 000 to 600 000 tons of almost all European wheat for shipment from October 2002 to March 2003.