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. Read more
Can Diplomacy Save Darfur?
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Since then, events have been unfolding at lightning speed as the international community is using ever tool it has to try and hold the peace agreement together. Read more
Karzai Escapes Another Assassination Attempt
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By Bridget Johnson, your guide to Journalism Taliban fighters marred one of Afghanistan’s most celebrated days — Mujahedeen Victory Day, observing Afghans’ victory over the Soviets — on Sunday with gunfire and rocket fire aimed at President Hamid Karzai. The president escaped from the open-air event in Kabul unhurt, but lawmaker Fazel Rahman Samkanai, [...]
Unanimous Senate points the way toward ending private health insurance
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 I totally agree with the U.S. Senate’s unanimous vote yesterday to prohibit insurers, among others, from discriminating against those with genetic predispositions to certain medical afflictions. (story) But such a prohibition destroys the fundamental principle of insurance. Insurance is a shared-risk pool into which we all pay amounts that are commensurate to the statistical [...]
It’s Shakespeare, Innit?
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Missed Friday’s Sky.Com News? Watch our top podcaster guest Oliver Mann discuss Shakespeare’s famous “The Two Geezers Of Verona”, why James Bond might be jinxed, and how a logo has caused big blushes for government department the OGC. And as always, the best of the popular web videos – including Nora the cat that plays [...]
Morocco: At Least 55 Killed In Casablanca Mattress Factory Fire
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The head of the Red Crescent rescue operation said an emergency exit was blocked and firefighters arrived some two hours after the blaze began yesterday morning. Read more
Mel B denies Spice Girls Mandela rumours
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Rex Features Mel B has denied rumours that the Spice Girls are going to play Nelson Mandela’s 90th birthday celebrations. The singer said that the group were “big fans” of the former South African president, but claimed they have no plans to perform together again in the foreseeable future. It is reported that Duffy, Leona [...]
International News Update: Oil Strikes In UK; Obama Rejects…
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Pumps in Scotland run dry, as oil strike prompts queues at Petrol Stadium; Barack Obama rejects Clinton’s call for new debate; Trains collide in Eastern China, 43 dead, 247 hurt, Xinhua says; Taliban attack on … via ClipSyndicate Read more
INCEST HELL FOR 24 YEARS IN AUSTRIA
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AMSTETTEN, Austria — A man has confessed to imprisoning his daughter for 24 years in windowless cell with a soundproofed door and fathering seven children with her, police said Monday. Read more
Divinely Wright
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Rev. Jeremiah Wright has begun his mini-tour, climaxing Monday at the National Press Club in Washington, to promote himself and, apparently, to personally destroy the candidacy of his one-time parishioner. Read more
China’s human-rights position, in and on its own terms
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Xinhua is the state-owned, state-controlled, international news service of the communist government of the People’s Republic of China. Like the United Kingdom’s BBC or France’s Radio France Internationale or Japan’s NHK broadcasting organization, Xinhua offers its news reports to a global audience in various languages. Unlike other countries’ government-supported news-and-information services, however, the Chinese organization [...]
Cluster bombs of the Secret War
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Last week I made my first visit to the beautiful and neglected country of Laos to learn about these vicious objects: . . . unexploded cluster bombs. My story appeared here in Saturday’s Times. I attach a longer version below. Thanks to the many people who helped to organise the trip. Those interested in learning [...]
“Why Don’t You Shut Up?”
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WASHINGTON — King Juan Carlos of Spain told Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to zip his lip on Saturday and the Spanish-speaking world went nuts. Read more
Vote Fails to Save Historic Berlin Airport
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BERLIN, April 27 — A grass-roots campaign to save Tempelhof Airport, the epicenter of the Berlin Airlift of 1948-49, fizzled Sunday after supporters failed to win enough votes in a citywide referendum. Read more
For Chinese Athletes, Western-Style Perks
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BEIJING — As China embraces capitalism, its athletic teams are cashing in. Read more
Immigrant’s Death Sparks Tensions in N.Y.
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MOUNT KISCO, N.Y. — It was the kind of life and death that might have slipped by without much notice. Rene Perez was homeless, a drinking man from Guatemala, an occasional laborer in this affluent community, and he was found unconscious on a desolate road in a nearby town only to die soon afterward. Read [...]
Peru’s Fujimori Asserts His Innocence
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LIMA, Peru, Dec. 10 — Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori on Monday erupted in anger during the first day of his trial on human rights charges, shouting that he had rescued a country on the verge of collapse in the 1990s and never ordered “any detestable acts.” Read more
Mexican ‘Dirty War’ Case Nears Court
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MEXICO CITY — Rosendo Radilla was the Renaissance man of Mexico’s 1960s and ’70s social justice movement. Read more
Zimbabwe Officials Confirm Opposition Win in Parliament
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HARARE, Zimbabwe, April 26 — Zimbabwe’s opposition appeared set to retain its gains in parliament Saturday, as international pressure mounted for the release of results from the presidential vote that longtime leader Robert Mugabe is believed to have lost. Read more
U.S. Weighing Readiness for Military Action Against Iran
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The nation’s top military officer said yesterday that the Pentagon is planning for “potential military courses of action” as one of several options against Iran, criticizing what he called the Tehran government’s “increasingly lethal and malign influence” in Iraq. Read more