Cape Town | Tuesday SA South African court on Monday remanded in custody two brothers suspected of posting a hoax e-mail on the Internet claiming that South Africans were involved in last week’s terrorist attacks on the United States. William and Christiaan Conradie will be kept in custody for two days to allow investigators time […]

Afghanistan | Monday AFGHANISTAN’S Taliban rulers have moved a large arsenal of weapons, including Russian Scud missiles, to positions near the border with Pakistan, a Pakistani army officer said on Monday. ”We are already prepared, we are ready to defend the motherland,” Captain Abid Bahtti told reporters, speaking at an army checkpoint just 2,5km from […]

Afghanistan | Monday AFGHANS were desperate for news on Monday as their secretive Taliban rulers held talks with Pakistani officials on whether to extradite Osama bin Laden and avert war with the United States. With television banned and domestic media strictly controlled by the Islamic regime, many ordinary Afghans expressed a sense of helplessness as […]

DUNCAN MARTELL AND REED STEVENSON, San Francisco, Tokyo | Wednesday A DAMAGING new computer worm was spreading like wildfire across the Internet on Wednesday, hitting both home users and businesses in an outbreak that could prove more widespread and costly than the Code Red viruses, computer security experts said. Known as ”Nimda”, which spells admin […]

PARENTS and villagers gathered in a small Mpumalanga courtroom on Tuesday where six boys aged between nine and 11 appeared on charges of allegedly gang-raping a 10-year-old girl. The boys, who are all Grade 3 pupils at a primary school in Nhlazatje, Badplaas, were not asked to plead in the Elukwatini magistrate’s court and were […]

ZIMBABWE’S top politicians have endorsed a land deal brokered in Nigeria which aims to end the country’s land crisis, the state-owned Herald reported on Tuesday. The politburo of the ruling Zanu-PF party met on Monday, endorsed the agreement signed in Abuja, Nigeria, earlier this month and called for its speedy implementation, the newspaper said. Under […]

Harare | Tuesday THOUSANDS of people living in southern Zimbabwe are facing starvation as critical food shortages loom, aid agencies and officials said this week. The food crisis in southern Zimbabwe has been blamed on a variety of factors, including a devastating cyclone in early 2000, a January drought which destroyed this year’s maize crops, […]

MICHEL SAILHAN, Cairo | Tuesday THE United States, France and other countries are moving ahead with preparations for the world’s biggest war games with some 70 000 troops in Egypt in October, Western diplomats said on Monday. The diplomats said they were virtually certain the war games, dubbed Operation Bright Star, would go head despite […]