The remains of 243 people have been exhumed from a mass grave in northwestern Bosnia, believed to have been inmates of a notorious Serb detention camp during the 1992-95 war, an official said on Wednesday. ”So far we have exhumed 243 bodies, more than half of which were complete,” Commission for Missing People member Jasmin Odobasic said.
Six-hundred-and forty-four Liberian children separated from their parents since the Liberian civil war ended in August 2003 have been reunited with their families, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Wednesday. It said 229 children were repatriated from Guinea, 199 from Sierra Leone, 12 from Ivory Coast and 199 were traced in Liberia itself.
Regime change does not work in Africa and Britain is responsible for some of the continent’s troubles, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni said on Wednesday. Speaking during his state visit to Zimbabwe, Museveni, whose controversial ”no-party democracy” has scored some success, said he supported the seizure of white-owned farms in that country.
Three American physicists shared the ,3-million Nobel prize for physics for calculating the bizarre properties of the ultimate fragments of matter. They provided the mathematics for a completely new theory, which in the last three decades, has helped scientists peer deeper into the atom and get closer to the mysteries of creation.
The man who shot former Beatle John Lennon nearly 24 years ago has again failed to convince a New York parole board that he was ready for early release from prison. Mark Chapman (49) was returned to Attica State Prison after the three-man panel on Tuesday ruled an early release would undermine respect for law and order.
Scientists working in top-security labs say they have recreated pathogens from the 1918 flu pandemic, the greatest plague of the 20th century, in a bid to find out why this strain was so extraordinarily lethal. The United States team took two key genes from the 1918 virus and slotted them into human flu viruses to which lab mice were known to be immune.
Vodacom will announce the launch date of its third generation (3G) network at the Sandton convention centre on November 9. Vodacom will also, for the first time, run a public 3G demonstration at a location outside its offices at Vodaworld. The event will begin with a series of workshops including panel discussions on topics including WiFi, broadband, 3G technology, mobile marketing and messaging.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair held talks in Sudan on Wednesday to pressure the country’s leaders into taking action over the humanitarian crisis in war-torn Darfur. Blair, who underwent an operation to correct a heart flutter only five days earlier, was greeted at the presidential palace in Khartoum by Vice President Ali Osman Taha.
Blair seeks pledge from Sudan
The chief executive of ThisDay newspaper, Graeme King, has resigned from the company. In a joint statement released on Tuesday King said he hoped the newspaper would become a ”leading voice in the market”. King led the company through the critical launch phase of the national daily newspaper last year.
The Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria awarded Uganda a new grant of -million last Friday to battle the disease.