In a capital so dangerous that only the "walking dead" are said to venture out after dark, nothing could draw an obedient son from the safety of his parents' suburban home into the deserted night. Amplats threatens South Africa strikers with sacking
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – World no. 1 platinum producer Anglo American Platinum (Amplats) said on Monday it was too early to tell whether South African miners on an illegal strike will return after the company told them to resume work or face sacking. “We will have an idea later in the morning,” Amplats spokeswoman Mpumi Sithole told Reuters when asked whether the miners were reporting for duty. But a labor leader at Amplats said the strike was on-going as no agreement had been reached. “It’s only the management that decided the workers should go back to work without an agreement. …
BBC says its news chief, her deputy 'step aside'
The BBC says its news chief and her deputy have 'stepped aside' while the broadcaster deals with the fallout from a child abuse scandal that forced its director-general to resign. Total CEO confirms talks to sell assets in Nigeria
ABU DHABI (Reuters) – The Chief Executive of French oil major Total said he would not deny a report that the firm was in talks to sell assets in Nigeria, worth about $2.4 billion, to China’s Sinopec. A Bloomberg report last week said Asia’s largest refiner China’s Sinopec was close to buying stakes in Nigerian onshore oil blocks from Total. “Yes we are discussing with certain buyers about selling certain assets in Nigeria,” said Total CEO Christophe de Margerie, declining to name the potential buyer or value of the deal but saying he would not deny the report. …
BBC head of news "steps aside" over abuse scandal
LONDON (Reuters) – The two most senior figures at BBC News stepped aside on Monday a day after the chairman of the broadcaster's governing body said it needed a radical overhaul to survive a child sex abuse scandal, it said. Helen Boaden, the director of BBC News, and her deputy Steve Mitchell, stepped aside two days after the director general quit to take the blame for the airing of false child sex abuse allegations against a former politician. … Iran VP: We will break Obama's 'grasping hands'
Iran’s vice president said Monday that Tehran will break the ‘grasping hands’ of newly re-elected President Barack Obama, the official IRNA news agency reported.
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