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.
Some 200 Jewish settlers refused on Monday morning to abandon a wildcat settlement ordered dismantled by Defence Minister Binyamin Ben Eliezer six days ago, public radio said.
The Mail&Guardian’s own Khadija Magardie scooped an award at the prestigious CNN Journalist of the Year awards.
Various NGO’s have warned United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan that the upcoming World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg was in danger of collapse.
Israel and the Palestinians were set on Thursday to hold security talks to discuss a phased Israeli withdrawal from some occupied areas.