Environmental campaigners are to converge on Shell’s London headquarters this morning to highlight the company’s ”shocking” pollution record.
Two Palestinian Islamic groups on Thursday lambasted Israel for its overnight tank shelling in the Gaza Strip that killed four members of the same Palestinian family, with one group vowing bloody
revenge.
MARC Ravalomanana was sworn in Monday as president of Madagascar in front of a vast crowd, even as his rivals declared his investiture illegal.
Cross-border shelling between Indian and Pakistani soldiers in Kashmir and along the international frontier continued on Monday but at a lower intensity than in recent days.
Two people were killed by Indian shelling overnight in the Pakistani zone of the disputed Himalayan state.
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/ 16 November 2001
Paul Kirk Between 1995 and 1996 the Ministry of Defence conducted a strategic defence review a stocktaking of the equipment the South African National Defence Force needs to acquire. The review presented a “force design” that amounted to little more than a wish list because, as the Department of Defence conceded, funding was unavailable. In […]
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/ 11 November 2001
THREE children have been killed in southern Angola after playing with an unexploded mortar shell, a police representative told the Portuguese news agency Lusa on Wednesday. The three children were playing in the southern Angolan city of Lubango, the capital city of Huila province, with an 82-millimetre mortar shell they had found on wasteland in […]
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/ 14 October 2001
SOUTH African Airways has paid out just over R1-million in 1 283 claims for theft from baggage on the airline’s flights worldwide up to the end of September this year, says Public Enterprises Minister Jeff Radebe. Replying to a question by Rudi Heine (DA), he said SAA had paid out R1,832-million in 3 108 claims […]
The entertainment industry’s reactions to the disaster: shock, self-reflection, hypersensitivity, writes John Patterson.
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/ 28 September 2001
ANGLO-Dutch oil group Royal Dutch/Shell has stopped crude oil exports of 27 000 barrels per day following a fire at a terminal. The company shut down its Olomoro flowstation in southern Nigeria on Thursday after militant youths seized the facility, a Shell official said. The official a part of the facility was damaged during the […]