A SPANISH non-profit group seeking both to unmask potential child-abusers and test the authorities’ vigilance regarding paedophilia, garnered some 200 e-mail responses via a fake Internet page it set up. The Anesvad charity said its fake ”Nymphasex” site, which contained no pictures but invited users to send in e-mail messages to three supposed minors in […]

TWO Unita members of the Angolan Parliament concluded a visit to Brussels on Wednesday as part of a two-week tour aimed at acquiring support for dialogue in the war-torn country entering its third decade of civil war. Daniel Jose Domingos Maluka’and Manuel Savihemba met various members of the European Parliament with the Unita pair reminding […]

Pretoria | Thursday AFRICAN National Congress Women’s League (ANCWL) president Winnie Madikizela-Mandela (64) was on Thursday released on bail of R5 000 after appearing on fraud charges in the Commercial Crime Court in Pretoria. She was arrested when she reported to court officials earlier in the morning. Madikizela-Mandela arrived at court in a luxury Mercedes […]

OSAMA bin Laden had warned his associates of a “major operation” against the United States shortly before the September 11 suicide plane attacks, British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Thursday. “Shortly before September 11, bin Laden told associates that he had a major operation against America under preparation,” Blair told parliament in an emergency statement. […]

EGYPTIAN security services recently dismantled a ”sleeping cell” of Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda network, according to the editor-in-chief of the government’s al-Mussawar weekly newspaper. ”The mission of this sleeping cell was to conduct large-scale operations in Egypt on different very important targets, to create enormous consequences which would have complemented the terrorist series conducted by […]

THE Taliban militia has arrested a French man disguised in a woman’s full-body burqa veil near the eastern city of Jalalabad, the Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) reported on Tuesday. The Pakistan-based news agency, which has close contacts with the Taliban, said the man was with two other people in Goshta, 35 kilometres east of Jalalabad, […]

Washington, Jalalabad | Monday AS ordinary Americans stocked up on canned food, bottled water and gasmasks after fears spread that terrorists are plotting another strike, President George W Bush rejected an offer from Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban to turn over suspected terrorist Osama bin Laden to a neutral third country. ”They must have not heard: There’s […]

SEVERAL foreign journalists have been taken hostage by pro-Taliban protesters near Peshawar in Pakistan, according to unconfirmed reports. The journalists were believed to have been trying to get near the Afghan border when they were captured and blindfolded. It is not known where they have been taken. The area around Pakistan’s borders with Afghanistan had […]