By Nadim Ladki BEIRUT- Israel blockaded Lebanese ports and struck Beirut airport and two military airbases on Thursday, expanding reprisals that have killed 53 civilians in Lebanon since Hizbollah captured […]
Archive | August, 2006
SA gig for local artists
Oliver Shambira BARELY three months after putting on two well-attended shows at the 2010 Centre Thohoyandou, Limpopo province, trailblazing musician Mitchell Jambo is se (more…)
S.Africans to strike Thursday for jobs, less poverty
By Lucia Mutikani JOHANNESBURG – Workers represented by South Africa’s biggest labour federation COSATU will strike on Thursday against unemployment and poverty, the union said. Congress of South African Trade […]
Iran’s Ahmadinejad scorns EU atomic incentives
By Christian Oliver TEHRAN – Accepting EU incentives that urge Iran to stop making atomic fuel would be like trading candy for gold, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday. […]
Foreign oil workers kidnapped in Nigeria
By Austin Ekeinde PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria – Three foreign oil workers, including an Italian, were kidnapped from a car under armed escort in Nigeria’s oil capital Port Harcourt on Thursday, […]
ElBaradei urges compromise over Iran atomic row
By Emma Thomasson AMSTERDAM – The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog welcomed on Thursday moves to avert possible U.N. sanctions against Tehran over its nuclear programme and appealed for […]
Larger breasts confer higher breast cancer risk
By Anne Harding NEW YORK – Women with larger breasts have a greater risk of developing breast cancer before menopause than smaller-breasted women do, a new study shows. While the […]
Darfur rebel makes peace overture, talks intensify
By Estelle Shirbon ABUJA – A factional rebel leader from Sudan’s Darfur region, under intense pressure to join a peace deal, has made a tentative overture to the Sudanese government […]
3rd term heads for defeat in Nigerian Senate
By Tume Ahemba LAGOS – A bill to change Nigeria’s constitution to allow President Olusegun Obasanjo to seek a third term in elections next year headed for defeat after more […]
Defiant Zim launches drive to revive economy
ZIMBABWE on Wednesday launched a new drive to revive its ailing economy, saying it would do away with past obstacles to growth, but vowed to press on with policies that […]