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.
A prominent US economist on Monday blasted the world’s wealthiest countries, particularly the United States, for not providing enough assistance to poor nations such as Cambodia.
China has held back from congratulating former US President Jimmy Carter for winning the Nobel Peace Prize, saying only that the prize should be awarded to someone who truly works for peace.
The Dalai Lama has met acting New Zealand Prime Minister Jim Anderton at parliament, despite Chinese objections.
The United States economic recovery is spreading to other countries, marking the start of a fully-fledged global rebound.
Iraq’s Deputy Prime Minister Tareq Aziz arrived in South Africa on Wednesday for a five-day visit that will include a meeting in Pretoria on Thursday with President Thabo Mbeki.