A SOLDIER, his wife and child were found gassed in the family car in their garage in Nelspruit on Monday. The family was found when the soldier’s colleagues from the army’s general support base in Nelspruit went to the house to investigate why the soldier had not reported for duty. Police said the 42-year-old staff […]
A GIANT ancient Egyptian statue abandoned for 15 years in the grounds of a Cairo hospital has finally been given a home in a museum, Egypt’s antiquities chief said on Monday. The statue was moved to the Arab Contractors hospital for unknown reasons from a quarry in the Red Mountain region east of Cairo, said […]
THE United Nations has condemned Britain for its policy of jailing asylum seekers while they wait to hear if their claims are successful. The acting head of the UN’s refugee agency in London says it is unacceptable for asylum seekers to be detained on arrival in Britain in prisons alongside criminals. Many are confined to […]
AN eight-year-old Nigerian girl, held by US immigration authorities for a year after entering the country illegally, has been handed over to relatives. The girl, who was abandoned by her parents in New York and taken to an immigration centre, has been handed over to her cousin, who lives in Connecticut, according to Immigration and […]
ZIMBABWE will late this month introduce a 500 dollar banknote (worth about nine US) due to rising inflation which has eroded the value of the currency. The largest denomination note available so far had been a 100 dollar (1.81 US) note, which was introduced in 1995. “In view of rising inflation, the 500-dollar note is […]
Harare | Tuesday AS hundreds of white farmers are driven off their properties in Zimbabwe, patients in state hospitals are dying as a result of a doctors strike. The death toll directly attributable to the strike, which begun on July 24, had shot up to at least 60 at just one of the country’s main […]
SEVENTEEN people have been killed by an armed group manning a roadblock in Algeria, locals in the Relizane region where the attack took place said on Monday. The victims, all farmworkers, were travelling on small trucks when they drove into the ambush overnight on Sunday close to the town of Sidi M’hamed Benaouda, some 300 […]
MORE than 3 000 Pakistani blue helmets have arrived in Sierra Leone and a further 1 300 are expected by the end of the month, a Pakistani military official said on UN radio on Monday. The official said the troops who had already arrived included an artillery regiment, engineers and logistics units as well as […]
Lisbon | Tuesday ANGOLAN rebels from the Union for the Total Independence of Angola (Unita) said on Monday they were responsible for a deadly ambush last week of a passenger train east of Luanda that killed more than 150 people. A Unita statement released in Portugal, Angola’s former colonial power, said at least 152 people […]
THE Algerian oil company Sonatrach and British Petroleum this weekend signed three contracts worth $2,5-billion (2.8 billion euros) for the development of gas reserves in the Algerian desert. When complete, the project is expected to yield nine billion cubic metres of natural gas per year. One contract is for a gas processing plant, pumping networks […]