The United States has asked Yugoslavia to grant US citizens legal immunity from extradition in cases heard by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, says a Yugoslav offical.
Khartoum has strongly denied reports that gold belonging to the al-Qaida organisation of Osama bin Laden has been moved through Sudan, a press report said on Wednesday.
Under a roaring flypast by Italian jets, former enemy soldiers gathered on Sunday to remember comrades who fell at El Alamein 60 years ago, a battle in the Egyptian desert that turned the tide for allied forces fighting Nazi Germany.
A South African Islamic charity organisation and the Foreign Affairs Department are to deliver a R5-million aid package to Palestinian refugees in Ramallah.
There is no trace of a letter purportedly sent to the President Thabo Mbeki to warn him about the recent Soweto bombings, the presidency said on Wednesday.
Palestinian gunmen shot and killed an Israeli motorist early on Thursday as Israel’s foreign minister warned that civilians would likely ”pay dearly” for the airstrike that killed a top Palestinian militant and 14 other people.
Fitch Ratings said the merger between South African Breweries and Phillip Morris Companies will have a minimal impact on the latter?s credit profile.
World number one platinum producer Anglo American Platinum on Tuesday reported a drop in first half-year earnings, hit by a stronger rand and a higher cost of sales.
World number one platinum producer Anglo American Platinum said on Monday it would seek an injunction to force miners to return to work after they refused to go underground at a South African mine last Thursday.
An official inquiry into the rand’s historic plunge last year has backed South Africa’s policy of gradually easing foreign exchange controls.