Sixty government and wine industry delegates from Argentina, Australia, Canada, Chile, New Zealand, South Africa and the US attended the World Wine Trade Group (WWTG) meeting in Cape Town.
Hans Blix, the UN’s chief weapons inspector, has assured Iraq that the team he is sending into the country next week will be as free of spies as he can make it.
President Levy Mwanawasa said Zambia has found money to run the country’s troubled Konkola Copper Mines until May 2003.
Nearly one million Ugandans have died as a result of Aids since the deadly disease was first identified in the East African nation in 1983, the Health Ministry said.
China currently has around a million people infected with the HIV virus which causes Aids, a figure that could increase ten-fold by the end of the decade.
Twenty-one teenage pupils died and 47 more were injured in north China’s Inner Mongolia region when a guardrail collapsed causing a crush in a dark stairwell.
A group of private sector financial players on Tuesday laid out a new plan to combat Argentina-style meltdowns in emerging economies.
A conservative Jewish group in New York said on Monday it planned to put armed patrols on the streets to guard against possible terrorist attacks.
Veterans of the 1950s Mau Mau rebellion against British colonial rule in Kenya said on Sunday that they plan to seek compensation for atrocities committed by British soldiers.
Ghana’s former leader Jerry Rawlings has been summoned by the national investigating agency after he urged Ghanaians to ”defy” President John Kufuor’s government