Karachi | Saturday BRITISH-BORN militant Sheikh Omar, the chief suspect in the kidnapping and murder of US journalist Daniel Pearl plans to challenge a Pakistani court’s decision to hold his trial inside jail, his lawyer said on Saturday. ”I have instructions from my client to file a petition with the Sindh High Court against the […]
Paris | Friday RICHARD Durn, the 33 year-old mass killer who committed suicide on Thursday morning, was a bitterly disappointed depressive who channelled his frustrations into a hatred of the political system in the Paris suburb where he lived, family and acquaintances said on Thursday. ”My son often spoke of killing,” said Durn’s mother Stephania, […]
A 26-year-old teacher in Opuwo, north west of Windhoek appeared in the town’s magistrate’s court after he allegedly raped a 13-year-old pupil, the Namibian Press Agency reported. The grade six pupil ran away from the Alpha School after the rape and the case was subsequently reported to the police last week. The school’s principal, James […]
A WAREHOUSE containing flammable chemicals at Imperial Motors in Wadeville, Germiston was gutted by a fire on Friday, police and the Ekurhuleni emergency services said. Damage worth millions of rand was caused by the blaze that followed an explosion shortly after noon at the Commercial Road premises. A Germiston emergency services official said despite the […]
FOR the third successive year, Million Air Charter has won the Association of South African Travel Agents’ (ASATA) award for outstanding service to the travel industry in 2001. The award is presented by ASATA in association with Diners Club International. Million Air is listed on the transport sector of the JSE Securities Exchange South Africa […]
Johannesburg | Saturday THE South African chapter of the Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) on Saturday condemned the detention without trial of journalist Peta Thornycroft by the Zimbabwe Central Intelligence Agency. MISA (SA) in a statement demanded the immediate release of Thornycroft stating that: “Her detention shows that the imprisonment is a punitive action […]
Blantyre | Saturday THE death toll from a cholera outbreak that began in November in Malawi has shot up to 503, with most of the deaths reported in the last month, health authorities said on Saturday. The cholera outbreak has been exacerbated by Malawi’s hunger crisis, which has left three-quarters of the nation’s 11-million people […]
Cape Town | Wednesday TRAFFIC in the Cape Town city centre was disrupted on Wednesday as hundreds of African National Congress members and supporters took to the streets to vent their anger over insufficient free water and electricity. The marchers, carrying ANC paper flags, marched to the Cape Town Unicity offices where they handed over […]
Atlanta, Georgia | Thursday THE United States vowed to keep working to end Middle East violence, as chaos at an Arab summit and a suicide bombing that killed 20 Israelis cast a cloud over the ailing peace process. In the wake of the attack, which also injured 73, including 26 in serious condition, US President […]
Ramallah | Saturday YASSER Arafat was holed up in a besieged building in the ruins of his Ramallah compound for a second day on Saturday as gun battles between Israeli forces and Palestinian gunmen raged on amid international efforts to ease the escalating crisis. The UN Security Council passed a resolution early Saturday calling for […]