World gold mine production is set to drop by three percent in 2002, the first fall since 1995, while depleting reserves and falling production could lead to a longer-term decline in output, a leading commodities consultancy said on Tuesday.
UN weapons inspectors begin their work in Iraq today, launching a tense new chapter in the confrontation with Saddam Hussein in which war and peace are likely to hinge on the legal interpretation of two words: ”material breach”.
Breaking his silence amid ”the despair that is killing” him, a sobbing Craig Martin, who suffered abuse at the hands of a priest at age 11, captivated a grief-stricken audience at the US Conference of Catholic Bishops.
Up to 10-million US health workers, police officers and firefighters are to be vaccinated against smallpox, according to a Bush administration official.
Police in Harare arrested at least 13 people including labour leaders for organising work stoppages to protest soaring food prices and economic hardship.
A high-level US military team will on Monday begin probing the bombing raid in central Afghanistan where 48 people were reportedly killed.
Japanese media on Wednesday questioned North Korea’s sincerity at an historic summit and said the revelation that eight kidnapped Japanese citizens had died there was a bitter pill to swallow at the start of renewed normalisation talks.
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Cuban President Fidel Castro and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat will address about 10 000 people expected to take part in a protest march next weekend.
Jo’burg Summit: ‘We want action’
Up to a million British countryside protesters, armed with their green Wellington boots, are expected to march through the streets of central London on Sunday to demand the right to hunt foxes.