adminPirates hold 6 hostage
LAGOS — Armed pirates stormed an oil service ship off Nigeria and kidnapped six foreigners and demanded a US$1,3 million ransom for their release, the police and military said yesterday. “Three of those abducted are from Ukraine, twoPistorius fought with lover before killing: Witnesses
PRETORIA — Witnesses claimed hearing arguing, a woman screaming and gunfire at the house of “Blade Runner” Oscar Pistorius the night he shot dead his model girlfriend, police told a South African court yesterday. Pistorius’s defence teamDPRK defends nuclear test
GENEVA — The nuclear test on February 12 was a “self-defence” measure in reaction to the United States’ ever increasing threat, a diplomat of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea said on Tuesday. Jon Yong Ryong, first secretary of the
Cameron refuses to apologise
NEW DELHI — British Prime Minister David Cameron visited the site of a colonial-era massacre in India yesterday, describing the episode as “deeply shameful” while stopping short of a public apology. On the last leg of a three-day trip aimed at forging
Valuing differences
Flora TeckieThe differences in the human family are what make the world a more beautiful place to live in. Differences are not only in the human family, but are apparent throughout the whole of nature. A beautiful garden is normally made of
Sunzu back at TP Mazembe
JOHANNESBURG. — Zambia defender Stopilla Sunzu’s European dreams are on hold after he returned to DRC soccer side TP Mazembe from overseas last Thursday. Sunzu was courted by English Premier League clubs Reading andRobust deterrence policies necessary to avoid nuke war
The US Administration has also denounced the DPRK government left, right and centre. Ban Ki-Moon the UN General Secretary also reprimanded North Korea for carrying out such tests. We cannot blame the UN Secretary General for issuing out such a strong statement since he is from South Korea and the DPRK has on several occasions threatened its Southern neighbour with total destruction or a nuclear Armageddon. Nuclear weaponsPushing boundaries of gender equality
Colleen Lowe Morna
Last week I sat in an air-conditioned room at the Polana Hotel going through a long to-do list, wondering if I had nothing better to do than listen to government officials making wordy statements about gender equality. Like the head