Ramallah | Friday ISRAEL reacted coyly on Friday to a US call for its withdrawal from Palestinian cities seized on the West Bank, noting archly that President George Bush did not use the word ”immediate”. The Palestinian leadership, meanwhile, embraced Bush’s new-found energy for the peace process, with chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat telling CNN […]
Kinshasa | Friday A SENIOR army officer on trial over the killing of president Laurent Kabila in the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on Thursday told a military court that the man who shot Kabila committed suicide immediately afterwards. Colonel Eddy Kapend Irung, the main accused in the trial, said he had […]
Pretoria, Sunday FOLLOWING the revelation that a top government official had landed his R40 000-a-month job with ”dodgy” academic credentials, a Pretoria company specialising in the verification of degrees and diplomas said this was merely the tip of the iceberg and that both the private and public sectors were ”riddled” with bogus credentials. Ina van […]
Kinshasa | Thursday A COURT trying 135 people suspected of involvement in the killing of Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) president Laurent Kabila is illegal and fails to meet human rights standards, a defence lawyer charged on Wednesday. The special military tribunal ”does not function in conformity with international human rights commitments”, attorney Jean-Marie Eley […]
Tokyo, Monday HOUSE cleaners have found six small bodies believed to be o babies, inside a closet at a vacated apartment room in eastern Japan, police said on Monday. ”It is true that there was such a case,” a police representative said, referring to news reports that the almost skeletal corpses had been found Sunday […]
Nablus, Saturday HEAVY fighting rocked Nablus overnight, as Israeli helicopter gunships blasted the West Bank city with missiles, causing an unknown number of casualties, local officials said on Saturday. ”We have 10 seriously wounded people in three different parts of the city, particularly in the historic centre,” said Annan Attira, representative for the local government […]
Sun City | Friday REPRESENTATIVES of civil society in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have offered to accept President Joseph Kabila as leader of an interim government. They told a press conference in the South African resort of Sun City on Friday that they were doing so in a bid to break the six-week […]
Washington | Friday THE asteroid 1950 DA, measuring some 1.1 kilometres in diameter, could collide with Earth on March 16, 2880, a team of international researchers concluded in Friday’s issue of the journal Science. Within a period of about 20 minutes on that day, there will be a one in 300 (0.33 percent) chance of […]
Johannesburg, Sunday POLICE arrested more than a hundred members of a crowd from the Soweto Electricity Crisis Committee (SECC) who gathered on Saturday to protest outside the Kensington home of Johannesburg Metropolitan Mayor Amos Masondo. Masondo’s representative Khotso Chikane said a bus load of protesters arrived at Masondo’s home in Kensington on Saturday morning and […]
Afghanistan | Friday AL-QAIDA and Taliban forces are offering $100 000 bounties for the capture of coalition soldiers in Afghanistan, a US military representative said on Friday. Leaflets have been distributed in the eastern province of Paktia where US-led coalition forces are now concentrating their campaign against diehard enemy fighters, the US army representative said. […]