Harare, Monday THE first face-to-face talks between Zimbabwe’s ruling and opposition parties since President Robert Mugabe won re-election last month failed to get off the ground on Monday, as both sides refused to budge on their positions on the tarnished polls. The talks, which brought together delegates from the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front […]
Hong Kong | Thursday AID group Oxfam International on Thursday launched a three year campaign to change global trade rules that it said are making rich nations richer and keeping millions of people locked in poverty. ”Oxfam is part of the growing movement that wants to see trade and globalisation working for people in poor […]
The Hague | Tuesday TWO witnesses testified in a closed session of the war crimes trial of former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic on Monday, giving evidence of atrocities committed during the 1998-99 war in Kosovo. The hearing took place behind closed doors, to protect the two witnesses’s identity as they gave their account of events […]
Johannesburg | Wednesday WEAK commodity prices elbowed South Africa’s market-dominant resource stocks lower at Wednesday’s start, with mining giant Anglo American and gold producer Gold Fields among the top losers. By 0730 GMT, the all-share index had fallen 0,3% or 32,5 points to 11,150.5, stamped lower by a 0,8% fall in Anglo to R186,40. Anglo […]
DENISE DUCLAUX, New York | Wednesday TECHNOLOGY stocks fell to session lows at midday on Tuesday as investors speculated over the next earnings shock after a surprise warning from International Business Machine Corp. a day ago. Blue chips eked out slim gains after a bullish outlook on Eastman Kodak Co. lifted the photo giant more […]
Washington | Thursday THE United States is a safe haven for torturers from other parts of the world who are fleeing justice, Amnesty International charged in a report released in Washington on Wednesday. The US government admits that up to 1 000 suspected torturers may have entered the country, but has not prosecuted any of […]
Yagur | Wednesday THE front of bus 960, blown up by a Palestinian suicide bomber in the Wednesday morning rush hour on the edge of Israel’s port city of Haifa, was ripped wide open, leaving a horrific scene of gore and the debris of eight abruptly terminated lives. As a police van pulled away the […]
Johannesburg | Saturday SOUTH AFRICAN AIRWAYS said on Saturday that it was investigating an incident in which two muslim passengers were removed from a flight to London because a first class passenger alleged they were ”suspicious”. The incident occurred at Johannesburg International Airport on Thursday when the captain of flight SA260 removed the men from […]
Pretoria | Saturday MORE details of an alleged right-wing plan to overthrow the government emerged in the Pretoria Regional Court on Friday. State Prosecutor Louis Wiese said that according to the plan, members of South African cabinet were to be ”taken out”. Wiese said the State was in possession of a 45-page document in which […]
Nablus | West Bank, Tuesday ISRAELI forces won cautious US praise on Tuesday by pulling out of the northern West Bank towns of Qalqilya and Tulkarem, but at the same time moved into a village in the south, killing two Palestinians in the ongoing hunt for suspected militants. In Jenin, heavy fighting went on overnight […]