Six people were killed and another 21 severely injured on Monday when a powerful explosion occurred near Grozny’s central market, ripping apart a municipal bus as it drove by, local pro-Moscow officials told Interfax.
Singing, ululations, drumbeats and dancing heralded the establishment of one of the world’s biggest cross-border conservation areas on Monday, signed into existence by the presidents of South Africa, Mozambique and Zimbabwe.
Mutinous soldiers have strengthened their hold on the northern half of Ivory Coast by taking control of a third city, local media reported on Saturday.
Russian forces will not withdraw from Chechnya until rebel leaders and their accomplices have been ”eliminated”, Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov has vowed.
Swazi King Mswati’s search for wedded bliss with his tenth wife continues to make headlines and now the tiny kingdom’s Attorney-General is in hot water for threatening to dismiss three judges of the High Court.
The US Agency for International Development has granted Kenya ,2-million to promote economic growth and democracy, following agreements signed here on Monday.
The Bush administration has threatened to respond with nuclear weapons to a nuclear, biological or chemical attack, in what was being seen yesterday as a clear warning to Saddam Hussein not to use his weapons of mass destruction in the event of a war.
The Institute for Security Studies confirmed on Wednesday that South Africans were in the Ivory Coast to help that government quell a rebellion, but said they could not be labelled mercenaries.
Big business ranks as the least-trusted institution in the world alongside national parliaments, according to an international public opinion poll released by the World Economic Forum (WEF) on Friday.
A three-kilometre deep blanket of sooty pollution stretching across southern Asia threatens to inflict untold economic damage on the region and put hundreds of thousands of people at risk.