Umguza resettled farmer defies odds

Chronicle Reporter

AN Umguza farmer defied the odds to get a bumper harvest of 13 tonnes of maize in an arid area where the majority of his neighbours harvested nothing.

Palestinians seek probe into Arafat’s death

RAMALLAH — The Palestinians want an international probe into the death of former president Yasser Arafat after an investigation showed he might have been poisoned, an official said yesterday.

Diamond acknowledges ‘reprehensible’ behaviour at Barclays

LONDON — Former Barclays chief executive Bob Diamond criticised “reprehensible” behaviour over a rate-fixing scandal in a tense appearance before British lawmakers yesterday, the day after he quit the bank.

South African game farmer jailed over rhino horn

JOHANNESBURG — A South African game farm owner has been jailed for eight years for the illegal possession of 38 rhino horns as soaring black market prices drive massive poaching, local media reported.

China set to miss upcoming Syria meeting

BEIJING — A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman yesterday said the country’s position on the upcoming “Friends of Syria” meeting has not changed, indicating it would continue with its policy of not attending the events.

Good Libyan days went with Gaddafi

When bomb after bomb had mangled Libya both in infrastructure and the souls of the its people, some of whom had been so gullible to imperialism to the extent of inviting the war, strongman Maummar Gaddafi was eventually captured and brutally killed.

Insight into manufactured reality

The greatest inhibition to imperial dominance is justice. It is impossible to be an imperialist and a just person at the same time. Ironically imperialism is and must be fuelled on the pretext of justice and freedom, these being the only nobilities in whose name territorial expansionism can be carried out today. Up to the 1920s one could openly boast of being a colonialist or an imperialist, but that cannot be done any more.

Man repays £90 000 on £250 car loan

THE victim of a loan shark has revealed how he was forced to repay £90 000 on a £250 car loan — and was even forced to hand over a redundancy payoff of £8 000.

Man cleared of attempted rape as ‘victim’ turns out male

A Swedish man has been cleared of attempted rape on a transsexual — because he had intended to rape a woman.

Worried ‘Ice cream melts’

AN Arkansas woman accused in a hit and run gave a bizarre excuse to police officers.

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