The United States had evidence the Pakistani military was preparing a nuclear strike against India in 1999, as the two nation’s armies were locked in a pitched battle in the disputed region of Kashmir.
A joint venture of mining giants Codelco and BHP-Billiton have said they will build an experimental copper treatment plant using bacterial leaching.
Swaziland Attorney-General Peshaya Dlamini has been summonsed to appear in court on Tuesday next week on charges of sedition, obstructing the course of justice and contempt of court.
A Libode businessman was fined R15 000, with the option of five years imprisonment, on Wednesday for beating his domestic worker to death with a stick.
Labour inspections on most farms were often difficult to carry out as farmers denied government officials access to their properties, the inquiry into human rights violations on farming communities heard on Wednesday.
A series of powerful explosions has torn through a local army munitions depot and destroyed international aid buildings in southern Afghanistan, with one aid worker putting the death toll from the blasts at 32.
Palestinian losses in agriculture in nearly two years of confrontations with Israel have reached one billion dollars.
Money, usually too tight to mention in the dusty central Kenyan town of Nanyuki, flowed freely this week as cattle herders finally came into British compensation for half a century of deaths and
injuries on local live-fire ranges.
African parliamentarians are to meet in Cotonou, Benin, on Tuesday and Wednesday to consider implementation of the new Partnership for African Development (Nepad), acting president of the forum of African Parliamentarians, Guy-Amedee Ajonoun, said on Sunday.
THE grieving families of Kano buried their dead on Monday, consigning many to a mass grave two days after an airliner crashed into the northern Nigerian city, flattening homes and killing 149 people.