No Cushion Against Hubris
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“The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war.”
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Aiming to Ease Tensions, Without U.S.-Russia Pact
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SOCHI, Russia, April 6 — President Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin wrapped up their final meeting in office Sunday with plenty of warm words and mutual praise but no concrete agreement on missile defense or the other issues that divide them.
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Scuffles During UK Olympic Torch Relay
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LONDON — Police scuffled with protesters as Olympians and dignitaries carried the torch Sunday during a chaotic relay through snowy London.
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Conflicting Portraits of Officer Charged Over Abu Ghraib
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Army Lt. Col. Steven L. Jordan does not appear in any of the notorious images of detainee abuse that emerged from Abu Ghraib prison three years ago. Going into his tour in Iraq in 2003, he had no interrogation experience. And more than half a dozen military interrogators have said in recent interviews that Jordan […]
Excerpts: Letter by Ingrid Betancourt
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English translation of excerpts from a letter by Ingrid Betancourt, a French-Colombian politician being held hostage by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC. Read excerpts from the letter in Spanish here.
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Human Traces Found to Be Oldest in N. America
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Scientists have found and dated the oldest human remnants ever uncovered in the Americas — a discovery that places people genetically similar to Native Americans in Oregon more than 14,000 years ago and 1,000 years earlier than previous estimates.
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Zimbabwe Opposition Demands Mugabe Quit to Avoid Violence
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HARARE, Zimbabwe, April 5 — Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai declared Saturday that Zimbabwe “does not need another war” and demanded that President Robert Mugabe step down rather than contest a second round of voting that many expect will turn violent.
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Bush Listens Closely To His Man in Iraq
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For months, a debate raged at the top levels of the Bush administration over how quickly to reduce the number of U.S. troops in Iraq. But the discussion shut down soon after President Bush flew to Camp Arifjan, a dusty Army base near the Iraqi border in Kuwait, in January for a face-to-face meeting with […]
In Tibetan Monasteries, the Heavy Hand of the Party
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BEIJING, April 5 — Arjia Rinpoche was 47 years old and a senior Tibetan abbot when he first signed a document denouncing the Dalai Lama, Tibetan Buddhism’s spiritual leader.
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Suicide blast kills Sri Lanka minister
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COLOMBO (Reuters) - A suspected Tamil Tiger suicide bomber killed Sri Lanka’s highways minister and at least 11 others on Sunday gathered for a marathon race near the capital, the government said.
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Protesters disrupt London’s Olympic torch relay
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LONDON (Reuters) - Anti-China protesters draped in Tibetan flags disrupted the Olympic torch relay through London on Sunday, billed as a journey of harmony and peace.
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Scuffles mar Olympic torch relay
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Fifteen arrests have been made as clashes between pro-Tibet protesters and police marred the Olympic torch parade on its 31-mile London journey.
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Mugabe’s party demands recount (AP)
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Official results for parliamentary elections held alongside the presidential race showed Mugabe’s ZANU-PF losing its majority in the 210-seat parliament for the first time in the country’s history. Final results for the 60 elected seats in the senate gave the ruling party and the opposition 30 seats each.
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Beyonce ties knot with mogul Jay-Z
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Hip-hop mogul Jay-Z and singer-actress Beyonce Knowles have married, People magazine has reported on its Web site, citing an unidentified friend of the couple.
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Motorsport boss in sex scandal faces last lap in chequered career
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Every morning after a bracing breakfast of kippers and strong tea, Diana Mosley, widow of Oswald and mother of the currently discomfited Formula One motor racing boss, Max, would enter the salon of her Paris apartment — a large, light room filled with fresh flowers and faded English country house antiques — and write the […]
Bush, Putin Open Farewell Talks
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SOCHI, Russia (April 5) - President Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin opened suspenseful farewell talks Saturday as the White House dropped hopes they would resolve differences on U.S. missile defense plans, one of the most contentious issues in a long list of security disputes.
They opened their meeting with a warm handshake and smiles at […]
Opposition lawyers stopped at gunpoint from applying for Zimbabwe’s poll result
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In a dramatic escalation of tension, armed police prevented opposition lawyers from entering the High Court in Harare to apply for an order forcing the release of last Saturday’s election results.
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Clinton campaign on the skids as aide is forced to apologise
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WASHINGTON - The wheels may be about to come off Hillary Clinton’s campaign for the presidential nomination following a series of damaging news reports less than three weeks before a potentially decisive primary contest with Barack Obama in Pennsylvania.
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Overview: Africa's Civil Wars
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This list, though hardly exhaustive, provides an overview of some of Africa’s major contemporary civil conflicts.
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Hero or Dictator?
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Overview:
Yoweri Museveni came into power in 1986 as the head of a national guerilla movement. Hugely popular in Uganda and among foreign donors, Museveni was elected in 1996 in the country’s first democratic elections in 17 years and was reelected to a second term in 2001.
Although initially promising to step down after his second term, […]