Foreign

Caprivi poll may be postponed
WINDHOEK -- Namibia is considering postponing regional elections in its north-eastern Caprivi region where an armed secessionist movement was recently uncovered, state radio said yesterday. Nearly 450 Namibians, many of them armed, have fled from...

US call for new govt miffs Iraq
BAGHDAD -- Iraq yesterday blasted US President Bill Clinton's call for a new government in Baghdad, as evacuated UN staff got ready to return and Washington froze its military buildup in the Gulf. UN arms chief Richard Butler and the Internationa...

No Israeli troop pullback until remark 'corrected'
JERUSALEM -- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced yesterday that he is suspending an Israeli troop pullback in the West Bank until the Palestinians drop plans to declare independence in May. Mr Netanyahu said this in a speech to Parliament...

Lesotho parties in boycott
MASERU -- Lesotho's three main opposition parties said yesterday the ruling Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) was harassing and arresting its opponents -- and accused Pretoria of turning a blind eye. The Basutoland Congress Party, the Basotho ...

Lewinsky to get big bucks for book
WASHINGTON -- Monica Lewinsky, the world's most famous ex-intern, has landed a seven-figure book deal to tell her side of the sex-and-lies affair with President Bill Clinton. Ms Lewinsky will tell her story to British royal biographer Andrew Mor...

Moz explodes 200 mines
RESSANO GARCIA -- Mozambican President Joaquim Chissano yesterday made an appeal for more international help to rid Africa of an estimated 30 million anti-personnel landmines. At a site about 17km from this border town, Mr Chissano detonated more...

Whale carnage near Australia
SYDNEY -- Tourists here for the annual migration of humpback whales from Antarctica have learnt that the big wild world can chill as well as thrill. Humpbacks moving to the warmer northern waters of Australia's east coast are being pursued and am...