At least 374 people have died of influenza over the last two months in the Indian Ocean island of Madagascar, according to a new toll released on Friday by health authorities.
Israeli tanks were surrounding Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat’s office building in the West Bank town of Ramallah on Friday after a suicide bomber blew up a bus in downtown Tel Aviv, killing five other people and wounding dozens.
Nigeria said on Wednesday it will do everything possible to avoid a war with Cameroon over their border dispute, but warned it will take action if it is ”pushed to the wall.”
Media and technology company iTouch has begun disciplinary action against two Cape Town employees who were reportedly running a pornographic website off its system.
An awaiting trial prisoner, who escaped with four others from a Free State prison, allegedly shot dead an accomplice and wounded another as police closed in on the group in Kroonstad on Thursday.
Spanish troops will leave a disputed islet off the Moroccan coast on the condition that Rabat promises to never again send its troops there.
The Zimbabwe government has slammed white farmers who defied orders to cease operations on Monday, saying they were ”unrepentant racists and fascists” bent on attracting attention at the G8 summit.
The terrorist threat against the United States is an ”enduring vulnerability” and a ”permanent condition,” the top presidential anti-terrorism advisor.
Ten white farmers have been arrested in southern Zimbabwe for defying an order to leave their land and make way for new black settlers, says a farming crisis group.
For decades the Israeli army’s Bedouin soldiers were held up as proof it was possible for Muslim Arabs to be loyal to the Jewish state, but the treason case of senior Israeli officer threatens to expose the illusion of respectful coexistence between Jews and Israeli Arabs.