Kuala Lumpur

Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe directed a withering tirade at Britain and the United States on Tuesday, accusing Tony Blair of seeking to impose ”neo-colonialist rule” over Harare.

The 114-nation Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) is to call for Israelis accused of ”reported war crimes” in occupied Palestinian territories to be brought to trial.

Western nations were attacked on Thursday for double standards on human rights and racist policies in the war against terrorism as the 114-nation Non-Aligned Movement began a conference expected to be dominated by the Iraq crisis.

The Non-Aligned Movement summit in Malaysia next week is shaping up as a major platform against war on Iraq for leaders of the 114-nation grouping, the largest organisation of states outside the United Nations.

Malaysia’s government remained tightlipped on Tuesday over reports that it had offered asylum to Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe if he reliquishes power.

Defending their sport against criticism that it’s too dangerous, parachutists took turns leaping off the world’s tallest buildings on Sunday at the start of a rare tournament of extreme skydiving.

Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe, barred from visiting Europe or the United States, has made the most of a trip to Malaysia to heap scorn on Tony Blair and George Bush.

As Adita Mat Husin went to her 10th-floor office in the world’s tallest buildings on Wednesday, she was thinking of work – not about how safe the Petronas Twin Towers would be on the anniversary of the terrorist attacks in the United States.