After a six-month crisis, North Korea and the US are to hold talks next week, with China as their chaperone, in a face saving compromise for each side.
Britain last night urged France and Russia to return to the United Nations security council to forge an agreement on the vexed question of the world body’s precise role in post-war Iraq.
Under azure skies and heavy security, united Europe became a reality yesterday when leaders from west and east erased the frontiers of a divided continent in the ancient birthplace of democracy.
It is ordinary people who are casualties of the government’s denialist Aids policy.
With a new government in power, many Kenyans are finally able to come forward and tell their stories of how they were tortured by the previous regime.
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There is substantial evidence indicating serious wrongdoing at the SA Bureau of Standards, Democratic Alliance MP Mark Lowe maintained on Wednesday. Lowe has accused SABS management of suspect foreign travel allowances, leave and financial irregularities, and of sexual harassment.
Nigeria’s presidential election stood on the brink of crisis on Wednesday as the main opposition candidate rejected the results of a parliamentary poll and localised protests erupted.
Rioters have burned down buildings belonging to two key supporters of Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, in protest over alleged ballot-rigging in parliamentary elections.
A team of United Nations experts is due to begin investigations into a massacre in Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) Ituri region, where hundreds of civilians were slaughtered two weeks ago.