Foreign

DaimlerChrysler expects 7% sales fall
STUTTGART -- German-US automaker DaimlerChrysler said yesterday it expected a 7% fall in sales this year to e142billion in a depressed auto market, but added that the company would nonetheless avoid posting an overall loss for the year. The compa...

US, EU response will isolate Mugabe
HARARE -- Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe was looking increasingly isolated yesterday after the US said it planned to join the EU and slap sanctions on his government. The US State Department said late on Tuesday that it planned to impose a t...

Rethink on banning of SA reporters
PRETORIA -- Zimbabwe has agreed to reconsider its move to bar several South African publications from covering next month's presidential elections, the SA National Editors' Forum (Sanef) said yesterday. "We hope this means they will revoke their ...

Sanctions decision colonial, says Tanzania
DAR ES SALAAM -- Tanzanian President Benjamin Mkapa yesterday criticised the European Union for imposing sanctions against Zimbabwe, describing the move as "neo-colonial", state-owned Radio Tanzania reported. "This is neo-colonialism and economic...

Arab-Israeli fighting 'turning into guerilla war'
JERUSALEM -- The 17-month Arab-Israeli conflict is beginning to resemble a gue-rilla warm with 24 people killed in heavy fighting in as many hours, many of them Israeli soldiers and members of the Palestinian security services. Over the past two ...

Zim violence disturbs SA observers
HARARE -- South African election observers in Zimbabwe said yesterday they were "disturbed" by reports of political violence around the country in the run-up to the March 9-10 presidential elections. Samuel Motsuenyane, the mission's chief, said ...

WORLD WATCH
One man crime wave halted PARIS -- A French gunman launched a one-man crime wave, holding up four pharmacies, five hotels and a sushi restaurant in a small area of Paris in under 85 minutes, police said yesterday. On Tuesday just before 7pm the ...