International

A South African court ruled on Tuesday its legal system can be used to investigate and prosecute citizens of neighbouring Zimbabwe for suspected of crimes against humanity.

Months after rebels brought down the extravagant dictatorship of Muammar Gaddafi, the disarray in Libya’s state finances at the end of last year was so bad the new leadership did not know the size of state assets, how their money was being spent, or what had happened to more than $2 billion transferred from the sovereign wealth fund.

French president-elect François Hollande on Monday vowed to further the Sino-French exchange and cooperation in a meeting with Kong Quan, the Chinese Ambassador to France.

Washington will not negotiate with al-Qaeda over the release of a 70-year-old US citizen who was kidnapped in Pakistan almost a year ago, White House spokesman Jay Carney said.

A federal jury in Boston on Monday convicted the sister of Beatrice Munyenyezi, of visa fraud, fraud in immigration documents, and perjury.

The African Union-United Nations peacekeeping mission in Darfur charged, yesterday, Sudan has suspended flights to its support base in Uganda, a historic ally of South Sudan, but Khartoum denied the move.