The 130 people trapped in vehicles by heavy snowfalls in the northern parts of the Eastern Cape province were all rescued on Friday night, a disaster management co-ordinator said.
An Iraqi minister threatened Israel with attack if it participated in any US-led military action against the regime of President Saddam Hussein, in comments published in an Emirati daily on Friday.
Guinea-Bissau’s President Kumba Yala dissolved parliament on Friday, officials said, in a move that means an end to Prime Minister Alamara Nhasse’s government in the west African country.
Once heralded as a bastion of free of speech, a realm which transcends national law and court whims, the internet is now facing up to a harsh new reality after a supreme court ruling on Tuesday which has thrown internet publishers into disarray.
The British high commission in Kenya was closed yesterday for an indefinite period after receiving a ”specific threat” less than a week after the Mombasa attacks blamed on Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda network.
Two men were shot dead and two arrested after an off-duty community police officer was killed in Khayelitsha on Tuesday, Cape Town police said on Wednesday.
The class action lawsuit against various banks and corporations that ”profiteered” from apartheid will start in New York on August 9, said the leader of the legal team leader, US attorney Ed Fagan.
Armed police have besieged Malawi’s university in
Zomba, patrolling the campus after a student protest, as well as main roads and selected points in the sleepy town.
With the exception of a brief trip to the West Bank towns of Jenin and Bethlehem in May, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has not left Ramallah since Israel blew up his helicopters in a raid on Gaza almost 10 months ago.
The militant Islamic group Hezbollah has amassed thousands of surface-to-surface missiles in southern Lebanon, including weapons missiles with sufficient range to strike cities in northern Israel.