Chechen rebels based in Georgia’s northern Pankisi Gorge must leave, said Georgian President Eduard Shevarnadze.
The Insider Trading Directorate (ITD) has sought legal recourse in 20 of the 100 cases it has investigated since its inception in January 1999.
Kenya’s fractured opposition united yesterday behind a single candidate for December’s presidential elections to try to prise President Daniel arap Moi’s party from power.
America’s oldest senator ever, Strom Thurmond, who was born before aeroplanes and was considered too old to fight in the second world war, fulfilled his last ambition yesterday, celebrating his 100th birthday while still in office.
The Road Accident Fund (RAF) said on Friday it had suspended its chief financial information officer (CFO), Duncan Anderson, with immediate effect.
Tanzanian President Benjamin Mkapa has pardoned 3 000 prisoners on his country’s 41st independence anniversary on Monday, a statement announced.
An Egyptian queen fought 4 000 years ago for equal political rights with men and was granted the supreme honour of receiving a pharaonic burial.
Zimbabwe’s embattled white commercial farmers remain wary after the expiry of the latest eviction deadline to quit their properties under President Robert Mugabe’s controversial land reform programme.
While his brother worked in a school in Zimbabwe, Dick Gilman quietly collected money, books and clothes in Connecticut to send to the students. Gilman (58) was in Zimbabwe to help out at the school when he was shot and killed on Monday by border police.
A Pakistani judge on Monday convicted four Islamic militants in the kidnap-slaying of Wall Street Journal correspondent Daniel Pearl and sentenced one of them to death. The others received 25 years imprisonment.