The Kenyan sun had not long risen on the first day of the Israeli tourists’ holiday when they arrived at the hotel. Children and their parents mixed with couples on Hanukkah vacation at the Paradise Hotel’s reception.
A head teacher in Harare faces a possible five years in jail for telling parents that President Robert Mugabe’s re-election was ”morally invalid”, the Herald newspaper said Friday.
The British high commissioner to Harare, Brian Donnelly, has been placed under 24-hour surveillance for political activities incompatible with his diplomatic duties.
The United States has expressed concern over an Iraqi order for more than a million doses of the nerve gas antidote atropine, amid fears Baghdad may be preparing to use chemical weapons in the event
of military action against it.
Initial forensic tests have confirmed that human remains found in Pakistan are those of slain Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
The US-Russian effort that whisked a cache of weapons-grade uranium out of Yugoslavia this week is part of a larger nuclear materials security programme given new urgency after the September 11 attacks.
Former US president Jimmy Carter who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, is a soft-spoken, onetime Washington outsider who not only made it into the White House but carried on afterwards to earn broad praise as a global mediator and humanitarian.
Environmental groups and biotech companies are accusing each other of exploiting starvation in much of southern Africa for political gain as countries in the region try to determine whether it is safe to use genetically engineered crops to relieve famine.
President George Bush will offer resumed direct mail services and new aid programmes to Cuba, but will maintain the US embargo until the Communist-ruled island returns to democracy.
Higher education institutions cannot be left to undertake mergers among themselves voluntarily, says Education Minister Kader Asmal.