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 […]
NORTH Korea has rejected a South Korean call for military talks
this week on reconnecting a cross-border railway, South Korean
defence officials said on Monday.
CONTINUING his re-emergence from the margins of US politics after
losing the 2000 presidential election, former vice president Al
Gore strongly criticised White House environmental and energy
polices, in an opinion piece appearing on Sunday in the New York
Times.
ALLAN SECCOMBE, Johannesburg | Friday SOUTH African mining firms are looking at a unified approach to tackle Aids, one of their biggest unresolved challenges as the infection rates creep higher. Mining is a vital foreign exchange earner for South Africa, but about 20% of the industry’s some 400 000 workers are HIV positive. HIV leads […]
BERNARD BESSERGLIK, Moscow | Friday RUSSIA’S ailing film industry must return to basics if it is ever to rival the glories of the Soviet cinema, according to a leading member of Russia’s ”lost generation” of filmmakers who plans to set up a studio to enable it to do just that. Andrei Eshpai, who made his […]
MARIETTE LE ROUX, Pretoria | Monday SOUTH African-hosted talks aimed at achieving peace in the Democratic Republic of Congo could not be described as a failure, even though no agreement was reached on the critical issue of powersharing in a transitional government, Foreign Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma said on Sunday. ”Yes, [the talks] did not […]
Jerusalem | Saturday ISRAEL will cooperate with a UN team that will be sent to ”establish the facts” of what happened in the Jenin refugee camp but totally rejects charges of a massacre there, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s representative said on Saturday. ”We will cooperate with this team because we have nothing to hide,” said […]
JOEL OLATUNDE AGOI, Lagos | Saturday SINCE Nigeria returned to civilian rule in 1999, things have steadily looked up for the country’s once depressed breweries, with sales and profits up, despite the installation of Islamic law in much of the north, industry officials say. Africa’s most populous country, with a population of more than 120-million, […]
London | Thursday PLATINUM opened at its highest for nine months in Europe on Thursday as speculators rushed to cover amid tightening lease rates and fears over a second strike at the world’s biggest precious metals refinery in South Africa. Platinum built on gains made in Asian trade overnight to begin at $560/565 a troy […]
Johannesburg | Saturday IF the British government had to pay out more than R64-billion in frozen increments to British pensioners living in the Commonwealth, it would mean an automatic increase in National Insurance Contributions for all UK contributors, the London High Court heard on Friday. In April 2001, British pensioners living outside the Commonwealth received […]