The Iraqi National Congress was to meet Friday in London with former army officers, opponents of President Saddam Hussein and a US official to discuss ways of toppling his regime.
The Ugandan army has killed over 300 Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebels and lost 40 of its own soldiers since it embarked on its ”Operation Iron Fist” in southern Sudan last March.
UN weapons inspectors have rejected criticism by the US and Iraq that they are failing to do their job properly.
The Israeli board of censors was criticised by both Palestinians and Israelis on Wednesday for banning a documentary about the battle in Jenin which took place earlier this year.
Proposals to change the Constitution and allow MPs and MPLs to ”cross the floor” while retaining their seats, will be submitted to Cabinet, Justice and Constitutional Affairs Minister Penuell Maduna announced on Monday.
Police in Australia are to interview a man who lopped off his penis, scrotum and left hand in front of his wife, police and ambulance officers in the driveway of his suburban Sydney home.
The former chief executive of the Lesotho Highlands Development Authority, Masupha Sole, who was jailed for 18 years for corruption, has begun legal action against the judge in his case.
A HIGH COURT judge ruled Friday that the government cannot strip citizenship from people born in Zimbabwe, and ordered the state to renew the passport of rights activist Judith Todd.
Idrissa Seck, one of President Abdoulaye Wade’s closest aides, was named Senegal’s new prime minister on Monday after the government was sacked in the wake of a ferry disaster that cost 1 200 lives.
The widow of late Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos threw a tantrum after her and her husband’s personal items were removed from display at the presidential palace museum.