There is something dream-like about contemplation of the drift to war in Kashmir. In Britain concerns were focused on the evacuation of its citizens and the destination of refugees.
Are South African intelligence services using a controversial French businessman in their Congo peace bid? The answer to a recent parliamentary question suggests they may be. Jean-Yves Ollivier, has long been regarded as a frontman for French intelligence.
The state’s newly appointed diamond board boss has shares in a private diamond company that got mining permits from a Department of Minerals and Energy Affairs office he headed. Louis Selekane was appointed in spite of an investigation against him.
At the end of the World Cup, South Africa will complete a decade of playing international football since readmission into the international sporting fold. It has been a decade in which the team showed promise and remains capable of so much more.
”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”.