A top US arms control official said on Thursday North Korea was an evil regime which had repeatedly ignored US warnings to stop proliferating weapons of mass destruction.
The head of a Commonwealth committee that suspended Zimbabwe in March, Australian Prime Minister John Howard, warned on Tuesday that Commonwealth countries may impose sanctions on Zimbabwe.
Southern African countries plan to step up their campaign to win international support for allowing some sales of raw ivory, despite a ban aimed at protecting endangered elephants.
US President George Bush promised on Monday to pursue executive lawbreakers and restore trust in corporate America but was forced to defend his own record as a Texan oil executive.
Israeli troops arrested dozens of Palestinians during overnight raids in the West Bank, including a security official from Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat’s Fatah movement, security sources on both sides said on Tuesday.
Although two thirds of all people living with HIV are in Africa, African vaccine research currently receives only 1,6% of the S2,5-billion spent on HIV research annually.
Israeli cabinet secretary Gideon Saar declined to rule out the army storming Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat’s office on Saturday as he made clear the Jewish state’s determination to capture some 20 security commanders holed up with him.
An explosion went off on Saturday night at a building situated outside the Grand Central Airport in Midrand, North Rand police said. No casualties were reported.
South African former president Nelson Mandela has called for Lockerbie bomber Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi to be moved to serve his time in a jail in a Muslim country.
African leaders have taken the first step towards setting up a mechanism to monitor each other’s progress towards good government, a key plank in a widely-praised new development strategy.