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/ 18 November 2005
Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon has accused President Thabo Mbeki of being a ”past master” at exonerating African National Congress leaders before they have been properly investigated. ”President Mbeki seems wary of [corruption] investigations when they come too close to the Presidency,” Leon said in his weekly online newsletter.
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/ 18 November 2005
Civic and human rights groups urged African leaders on Friday to pressure Zimbabwe to restore the rule of law and end human rights violations. An alliance of 25 groups said the Zimbabwe government mostly ignored calls by the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights to observe human rights.
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/ 18 November 2005
Scientists have blasted a plan to cull thousands of elephants in the Kruger National Park, instead recommending contraception to reduce numbers. "This cull is abhorrent and needs to be stopped," Southern African Association for the Advancement of Science president Ian Raper said in Johannesburg on Friday.
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/ 18 November 2005
Walking home with her two classmates after a morning’s lessons, Mirjana looks dumbfounded when asked if she has any Muslim friends. Ask a silly question, her expression says. The 16-year-old Bosnian Croat girl has grown up in a country at peace.
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/ 18 November 2005
Democracy is taking firm root in the Middle East and North Africa where Iraq, Lebanon and the Palestinians will make great strides in 2006, Britain’s influential magazine The Economist predicted on Friday. The international weekly news and business magazine’s Index of Political Freedom ranked 20 countries on 15 indicators of political and civil liberties for its annual preview of the year ahead.
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/ 18 November 2005
Western researchers have called for tighter curbs on Indian clinics making ”extravagant claims” over the use of embryonic stem cells after a Delhi doctor this week said she had treated 100 terminally ill patients with the therapy. Experts in Britain expressed concern and scepticism on hearing that Geeta Shroff (41) who runs a genetics research laboratory and hospital in south Delhi, had produced and purified stem cells from human embryos.
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/ 18 November 2005
Actor Russell Crowe was scheduled to appear in Manhattan criminal court on Friday, accused of throwing a phone at a hotel concierge in June. If convicted of assault and criminal possession of a weapon, the Oscar winner could lose his right to work in the United States and face seven years in prison. His lawyers have been working to reduce the charges.
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/ 18 November 2005
Anti-American protesters and riot police fought pitched battles in the streets of the southern South Korean port city of Busan on Friday as thousands of people rallied against the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) summit in the city. Violence erupted as police barricaded roads and trained water cannons on activists.
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/ 18 November 2005
Dressed in a dark blue smock, Alexander Dorofeyev stoops over his lathe, honing limewood into tiny, perfectly formed dolls. Here, ancient craft skills are used to turn out the ultimate Russian souvenir — the matryoshka doll, famous for opening up when its two halves are twisted apart, to reveal another slightly smaller doll inside.
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/ 18 November 2005
The temporary disappointment of South Africa’s unsuccessful bid to host the 2011 Rugby World Cup has not changed the challenges facing South African rugby, President Thabo Mbeki said on Friday in his weekly newsletter on the African National Congress website.