Gaza City | Monday VIOLENCE flared in the Gaza Strip on Monday, with three Palestinians shot dead overnight, after Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said a massive three-week military operation in the West Bank was over for the time being. And as the Palestinians tried to restore their shattered lives, on the diplomatic front Israeli […]
Berlin | Tuesday TUNISIAN authorities have arrested a man linked to the explosion of a fuel tanker outside a synagogue there in which 16 people died, including 11 German tourists, German Interior Minister Otto Schily announced late on Monday. Upon his return from a two-day visit to Tunisia to check on the enquiry into the […]
Johannesburg | Sunday THE National Intelligence Agency’s inquisition into the sexual CV’s of prospective members of the presidential press corps gave new meaning to the constitutional concept ”organ of state”, the Democratic Alliance said on Sunday. ”The love lives of journalists (like their financial or psychological health) cannot serve as a qualification or disqualification for […]
Cape Town | Tuesday SOUTH Africa published a draft manufacturing strategy on Tuesday to boost its share of global trade and identified eight industrial sectors for a special focus on efficiency and international competitiveness. The programme is part of the government’s drive to break out of flat economic growth and generate the income necessary to […]
Pretoria | Monday INTELLIGENCE Minister Lindiwe Sisulu has apologised for ”the alleged insensitive and unsavoury” questioning of journalists undergoing security competence testing for the proposed new presidential press corps. This follows press reports that the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) has been questioning full details of journalists’ sex lives, including whether or not they had ever […]
Moscow | Tuesday RUSSIA may not build a nuclear power plant in North Korea, as Pyongyong had earlier suggested, but rather set up the facility near its border with the Stalinist state, according to an official with the Russian nuclear energy ministry. Building the plant on Russian soil would prevent the disseminating of ”advanced nuclear […]
Johannesburg | Tuesday SOUTH Africa’s rand nudged further ahead on Tuesday to its best levels for nearly seven weeks, with traders divided on whether the currency’s impressive recovery so far this year has nearly run its course. At 1020 GMT, the rand was trading about seven cents firmer than late on Monday at 10,9375 against […]
Germiston | Tuesday THE mysterious midnight fire that gutted 33 coaches from three trains at the Germiston railway station early Tuesday morning was finally put out three hours later, police said. Captain Thobile Xakeka said that only rail officials were left behind at around 3.30am after fire extinguishers and police had left the scene. Police […]
PETER KAPLAN, Washington | Tuesday MICROSOFT Chairman Bill Gates took the witness stand on Monday for the first time in his company’s epic antitrust case to warn that sanctions sought by nine states would set the Windows operating system back a decade, harming consumers and the computer industry. Maintaining a smile that contrasted with unflattering […]
Sydney | Tuesday DRAMATIC video pictures of desperate asylum seekers smashing their heads against cell walls have been aired by Australia’s national broadcaster. The 20-minute video, made last June by staff at the Curtin centre in West Australia where armed asylum seekers have defied guards for the last four days, shows Afghan detainees in concrete […]