Los Angeles | Monday SEVERAL senior US clerics will urge the Vatican to force the resignation of Cardinal Bernard Law from his post as archbishop of Boston, the Los Angeles Times reported on Monday. Quoting off-the-record interviews with a US bishop and a cardinal, the Times reported that US bishops are virtually unanimous in believing […]
Harare | Saturday ZIMBABWE has welcomed an African-led vote that blocked a European Union call for UN human rights investigations into the southern African country. ”Once again we have been able to kill and frustrate the machinations of imperialist forces,” Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa told the state-run daily, The Herald. On Friday, the UN Human […]
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Grant Solomons attends the Cape Town leg of the Faithless tour and has a religious experience.
Gordon Haskell <i>Harry’s Bar</i>
HOWARD BARRELL, Johannesburg | Friday ELECTRONIC versions of two controversial documents promoting the dissident view of HIV/Aids carry embedded signatures suggesting that they were written on Thabo Mbeki’s computer. But computer experts have told the Mail&Guardian that this cannot be conclusive proof of authorship. The presidency on Thursday issued a guarded response to the M&G’s […]
CLAIRE SNEGAROFF, Jenin | Friday AHMAD Hussein Faraj feels his life is over. He cannot find his wife, he has been told one son is dead, and he does not know exactly where his house once stood in what is now the rubble of the Jenin refugee camp. Filled with heartache, the 70-year-old struggles to […]
PETER BEAUMONT, Jerusalem and JULIAN BORGER, Washington | Friday THE United States’s efforts to broker a new ceasefire in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict ended in humiliation for US Secretary of State Colin Powell on Wednesday. He was forced to return home with neither a truce nor any evidence that Israel is ending its siege of Palestinian […]
JASPREET KINDRA and MAIL & GUARDIAN REPORTER, Johannesburg | Friday AMNESTY International has voiced “deep concern” over South Africa’s unclear stance on a European Union resolution on violence by militia members and “war veterans” in Zimbabwe, tabled at the United Nations Human Rights Commission in Geneva. Amnesty’s UN lobbyist Cathy Turner said Amnesty saw South […]
IAN BLACK in Brussels, EWEN MACASKILL and NICHOLAS WATT | Friday ISRAEL’S international reputation slumped to its lowest point in two decades this week amid condemnation in Britain and Europe of the Israeli army’s behaviour at the Palestinian refugee camp in Jenin in the West Bank. There were calls for a United Nations-led inquiry into […]