”Do you have Aids?” I asked. Most politicians would have slammed the phone down, but not Peter Mokaba. No, he said, he was the victim of a propaganda plot by drug companies. I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.
Six thousand kilometres up a mountain deep in the Siberian taiga, the middle-aged man appears in a velvet crimson robe, long brown hair framing a beatific smile. He sits down in a log cabin perched on the brow of the hill.
The world is in a ”race against the clock” in the war against hunger, United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation chief Jacques Diouf said on Thursday at the end of the World Food Summit.
A Latin-American cardinal — Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga, tipped as the next pope — has launched an extraordinary attack on the United States media by comparing its coverage of church sex scandals to persecution by Nero, Hitler and Stalin.
India could consider pulling back some of its troops from its international borders with Pakistan once it is convinced Islamabad has permanently stopped the flow of Islamic rebels into Kashmir and dismantled their camps, an official said on Thursday.
President George W Bush thrust the war on terror back to centre stage this week, pledging a ”full-scale manhunt” against al-Qaida, as doubts began to snowball about United States government claims to have foiled a plot to detonate a ”dirty bomb”.
Martin, who owns one of Swaziland’s more successful road freight companies, was faced with a choice: to order the execution or to free two South African tsotsis found with his hijacked truck in Gauteng.
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Last week we erroneously reported that the African National Congress called for HIV/Aids to be declared a notifiable disease.
The International Press Institute condemned the decision by Zimbabwean authorities to put a United States journalist on trial for having published an erroneous article.