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South Africa: fight over rhino poaching escalates
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April 24, 2013 12:51 PM
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JOHANNESBURG: A U.S. firm recently gave smartphones to some game rangers in South Africa to help them track poachers who kill rhinos for their horns. An anti-poaching ad campaign in Vietnam, a key illegal market, shows rhinos with human hands or feet in place of horns, which are made from the same...
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Rift over Mandela companies deepens
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April 17, 2013 09:40 PM
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JOHANNESBURG: A granddaughter of Nelson Mandela has harshly criticized a longtime associate of the former president and anti-apartheid leader, in an escalation of a dispute over funds linked to one of the world's most revered figures.Tukwini Mandela accused lawyer George Bizos of insulting her...
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S.Africa: Mandela in hospital with lung infection
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March 28, 2013 09:16 AM
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JOHANNESBURG: Nelson Mandela, the anti-apartheid leader who became South Africa's first black president, has been admitted to a hospital with a recurring lung infection, South Africa said Thursday. Mandela, 94, has become increasingly frail in recent years and has been hospitalized several...
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Pilot whales beach in South Africa
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March 24, 2013 04:47 PM
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JOHANNESBURG: Six of 19 pilot whales that were stranded Sunday on a beach in the South African city of Cape Town have died and authorities said they planned to euthanize some of the surviving whales.Police and other rescue workers had hosed down the surviving whales at Noordhoek Beach to try to...
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South Africa: Mandela discharged from hospital
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March 10, 2013 04:40 PM
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JOHANNESBURG: The spokesman for South Africa's president says Nelson Mandela has been discharged from hospital and has returned to his home in Johannesburg.Presidential spokesman Mac Maharaj said in a statement Sunday that doctors had completed a "successful" medical examination of the 94-year-old...
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SAfrica police: Pistorius detective faces charges
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February 21, 2013 09:19 AM
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PRETORIA: The lead investigator in the murder case against Oscar Pistorius faces attempted murder charges himself over a 2011 shooting, police said Thursday.The prosecution said they were unaware of the charges against the detective when they put him on the stand in court to explain why Pistorius...
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Syrian war clouds Turkish plan to clear land mines
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November 28, 2012 11:30 AM
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AKINCI, Turkey: For two people walking into a Turkish minefield, they looked awfully assured.The pair strode in from Syria on a recent afternoon, following a faint track across the grassy plain. They slipped into Turkey through a fence near a vacant military watchtower and vanished into an olive...
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Archaeologists explore site on Syria-Turkey border
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November 08, 2012 11:33 PM
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ISTANBUL: Few archaeological sites seem as entwined with conflict, ancient and modern, as the city of Karkemish. The scene of a battle mentioned in the Bible, it lies smack on the border between Turkey and Syria, where civil war rages today. Twenty-first century Turkish sentries occupy an...
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Egypt tourism takes a hit from prophet protests
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September 28, 2012 02:12 PM
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CAIRO: One of the world's largest cruise ships, its foreign passengers primed for onshore spending, was supposed to dock in Egypt this month. The port call, however, was scrapped because of security concerns surrounding Mideast protests against a film made in the U.S. that denounces...
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Middle East ambitions: Turkey and Egypt seek regional alliance
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September 22, 2012 01:39 AM
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CAIRO: The image of an Ottoman sultan glowered at the gridlock from a highway billboard in the Egyptian capital, his feathered headgear and gold-hewn epaulettes in elegant contrast to the grind of traffic below. The poster for a Turkish-made movie about the 1453 fall of Constantinople recalled the...
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Turkey seeks to relocate some Syrian refugees
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September 16, 2012 10:37 AM
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ANTAKYA, Turkey: Already host to 80,000 Syrians in refugee camps, Turkey is now seeking to relocate some of the tens of thousands of others living outside the shelters to relieve pressure on local communities and better handle security in its tense border area. Many Syrians who have fled violence...
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Iraqi VP rejects 'unjust' verdict in terror trial
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September 10, 2012 10:07 PM
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BAGHDAD: From self-exile in Turkey, Iraq's fugitive vice president scoffed Monday at a Baghdad court that sentenced him to the gallows for masterminding death squads against rivals, describing it as a puppet of the prime minister and saying he will not return to appeal the verdict. The...
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Turkish military is key factor in Syria planning
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August 29, 2012 09:50 AM
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ISTANBUL: In 2003, Turkey barred U.S. forces from opening a northern front in the war against Iraq in a stunning rebuff to Washington that raised questions about whether the politically powerful Turkish military had undercut a civilian-led initiative to help the Americans. As Turkey and its allies...
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Sharapova, Djokovic win at Olympics
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July 30, 2012 02:44 PM
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WIMBLEDON: Thanks to rain, Victoria Azarenka, Venus Williams and 20 other women at the Olympics who have yet to complete a singles match could end up on court six consecutive days if they reach the gold medal round. Sunday showers at Wimbledon forced the postponement of 32 matches and the...
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Violent death an indication of Greece’s distress
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June 16, 2012 12:49 AM
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ATHENS: Some Greek pharmacies will close Friday, but not in protest against the relentless burden of austerity or the withering of state reimbursements for the drugs they sell. Rather, they are mourning for one of their own, a pharmacist who was shot dead in an apparent holdup. Violent crime is...
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