EGYPT’S state security court on Tuesday ordered 14 Egyptians to be held in preventive detention for two weeks, on suspicion of proselytism and violating the principles of Islam, court sources said. The suspects were rounded up at a meeting in a Cairo suburb. Tapes used to spread the group’s ideology were seized and handed to […]

PRESIDENT George W Bush has picked career diplomat Cameron Hume to be US ambassador to South Africa, the White House announced on Tuesday. Hume, who served as ambassador to Algeria from 1997 to 2000, is presently a senior advisor at the US mission to the United Nations in New York, where he served as political […]

ANGOLA’S army has discovered a large cache of heavy weapons and munitions near the airport in Mavinga, a town in the southeastern province of Cuando-Cubango, a private radio report said on Tuesday. A large number of portable rocket launchers, a ZU-23 anti-aircraft battery, B12 cannon munitions, and explosives were found in the cache, according to […]

Washington | Tuesday AS many as 24 members of terrorist suspect Osama bin Laden’s family were flown out of the United States after the September 11 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, Saudi Ambassador Price Bandar bin Sultan said on US television. Osama bin Laden, an heir to the family’s construction fortune, is believed […]

ANGELA QUINTAL, Cape Town | Thursday THE South African Education Minister has urged teachers who are threatening to strike to reconsider their actions, saying if the action went ahead it would be their pupils who would pay the price. He has also indicated that there is still a chance that the national action might be […]

San Francisco | Thursday THE motion picture and music industries joined in a lawsuit against websites that are seeking to take the place of Napster in swapping songs and have expanded to allow downloads of Hollywood films. The suit filed on Tuesday in California seeks to remove copyrighted materials from the sites MusicCity, Grokster and […]

Washington | Tuesday NEARLY 150 suspected terrorists and their supporters have been taken into custody in 25 different countries, as a US-led worldwide campaign against terror gathered steam, US President George W Bush announced on Monday. ”We’re finding out members of the al-Qaeda organisation, who they are, where they think they can hide, and we’re […]

Washington | Monday AFGHANISTAN’S defiant Taliban regime has admitted for the first time it was shielding terror suspect Osama bin Laden from US wrath, as Washington warned bluntly it wants the militia out of power. As Washington ratcheted up preparations for military action, the Taliban also vowed a punishing guerrilla war if his Islamic militia […]