In Brief

WASTE – Life-prolonging anti-retro-viral trimune drugs worth $700 000 have expired in Uganda’s National Medical Stores while thousands of people living with HIV-Aids struggle to stay alive.

* NO PAPERS – Four truckloads of people were arrested yesterday at the Baragwanath taxi rank in Diepkloof, Soweto, for being in South Africa illegally, police said.”They were apprehended during an anti-crime operation in the area,” said Captain Mbazima Shiburi. * COKE-TRAFFICKING HUB – A backwater producer of marijuana and hashish, Kenya, had become a cocaine distribution hub, according to the United States, the United Nations and British diplomats.They said traffickers from South America were taking advantage of Nairobi’s extensive air links to Europe and Asia, and spending piles of cash to minimise government interference.* TRAGEDY – The 20-year-old son of Anna Nicole Smith, Daniel Wayne Smith, died while visiting his mother in the hospital where the reality TV star and former Playboy playmate had given birth last week, a Bahamas police official said Monday.* CASUALTIES – As of Monday, September 11 2006, at least 2 670 members of the US military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.The figure includes seven military civilians.At least 2 127 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military’s numbers.* PAPAL VISIT – Some 230 000 pilgrims carrying Vatican flags and folding chairs streamed into a huge field yesterday outside Regensburg for Mass with Pope Benedict XVI, who once taught theology in the German city and still has a house there.* GUILTY – A court in India’s western Mumbai (Bombay) city has found four members of a family guilty for their roles in the serial bomb blasts in the city in 1993.A total of 123 defendants are accused of involvement in the blasts in India’s financial capital that killed 257 people and wounded 713.* CRASH – A stampede at a election campaign rally in Yemen has killed and injured dozens of people.The Associated Press has reported that 24 people were killed and 50 were injured.President Ali Abdullah Saleh was addressing the rally at a stadium in the southern province of Ibb, 170 km south of the capital Sanaa yesterday.Nampa-AP-AFP-Reuters-News24-wn* COKE-TRAFFICKING HUB – A backwater producer of marijuana and hashish, Kenya, had become a cocaine distribution hub, according to the United States, the United Nations and British diplomats.They said traffickers from South America were taking advantage of Nairobi’s extensive air links to Europe and Asia, and spending piles of cash to minimise government interference.* TRAGEDY – The 20-year-old son of Anna Nicole Smith, Daniel Wayne Smith, died while visiting his mother in the hospital where the reality TV star and former Playboy playmate had given birth last week, a Bahamas police official said Monday.* CASUALTIES – As of Monday, September 11 2006, at least 2 670 members of the US military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.The figure includes seven military civilians.At least 2 127 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military’s numbers.* PAPAL VISIT – Some 230 000 pilgrims carrying Vatican flags and folding chairs streamed into a huge field yesterday outside Regensburg for Mass with Pope Benedict XVI, who once taught theology in the German city and still has a house there. * GUILTY – A court in India’s western Mumbai (Bombay) city has found four members of a family guilty for their roles in the serial bomb blasts in the city in 1993.A total of 123 defendants are accused of involvement in the blasts in India’s financial capital that killed 257 people and wounded 713.* CRASH – A stampede at a election campaign rally in Yemen has killed and injured dozens of people.The Associated Press has reported that 24 people were killed and 50 were injured.President Ali Abdullah Saleh was addressing the rally at a stadium in the southern province of Ibb, 170 km south of the capital Sanaa yesterday.Nampa-AP-AFP-Reuters-News24-wn