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It seems that Zimbabwe’s long-ruling dictator-president, Robert Mugabe, is using every dirty trick in his democracy-crushing playbook to prevent his opponents from ever legally coming to power. Neither Mugabe, who leads the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front, nor rival Morgan Tsvangirai, the head of the Movement for Democratic Change party, won a clear majority in [...]
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The Iraqi interpreter tugged urgently at my sleeve as I was watching a group of British soldiers train Iraqi recruits at a base in southern Iraq. “Please, can you help us?” he asked. I looked at him, puzzled. He continued: “The Danish are flying their interpreters back to Denmark where they will be safe. Our [...]
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. So where do you stand on the Coldplay plagiarism debate? What do you mean what debate? Where have you been? The story so far: as Coldplay releases their latest album, going straight in at No 1 pretty much everywhere, a Brooklyn band name of Creaky Boards accuses them of ripping off the title track, [...]
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WASHINGTON — Given the heated nature of the debate over U.S. immigration policy, it wasn’t surprising that some politicians jumped to link the brutal slayings of three college students in Newark, N.J., with calls for a crackdown on illegal immigrants. Two of the six suspects are in the country illegally, one allowed to stay even [...]
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PARIS, June 18 — The European Parliament approved new rules Wednesday designed to standardize the dramatic differences in member countries’ treatment of illegal immigrants, whose presence is one of the most heated political issues in Europe today. Read more
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SANSHUI, China (Reuters) – China has evacuated more than 70,000 people near the epicenter of last month’s devastating earthquake to avoid further casualties from landslides and other disasters during the annual flood season. Read more
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MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Oct. 26 — Nicaragua’s legislature voted Thursday to ban all abortions, including those that could save a woman’s life. Read more
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BOGOTA, Colombia, June 18 — The amount of land devoted to production of coca, the leaf used to make cocaine, has grown at a dramatic pace in Colombia despite a huge American-funded counter-drug program of aerial fumigation and aggressive interdiction, a U.N. agency said Wednesday. Read more
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MEXICO CITY, June 21 — A former Mexican governor accused of involvement in drug trafficking was arrested Thursday and is awaiting possible extradition to the United States. Read more
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AL DAEIN, Sudan — It is difficult to unleash your inner Bob Marley in Sudan, but singer-songwriter Abazar Hamid is trying. He submits peace and love songs month after month to the government’s music monitoring committee, an apparently surly bunch that mostly censors and rejects them. Read more
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BAGHDAD, June 18 — U.S. military officials on Wednesday accused a Shiite militant group of carrying out a truck bombing in northwestern Baghdad on Tuesday evening that killed at least 65 people, the deadliest attack in the capital since March. Read more
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JERUSALEM, June 19 — Israel on Wednesday publicly pushed to open peace negotiations with Lebanon, seeking to add another initiative to an already burgeoning diplomatic roster that includes talks with some of the Jewish state’s foremost adversaries. Read more
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) – Afghan and NATO-led forces cleared out Taliban militants from the outskirts of Kandahar city on Thursday, killing or wounding hundreds of the insurgents, the provincial governor said. Read more
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QUINCY, Illinois (Reuters) – Volunteers and relief workers fortified levees on the rising Mississippi River on Thursday to prevent more flooding that has caused billion-dollar losses and ignited global food inflation fears. Read more
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A ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza has begun, despite a last-minute flurry of cross-border attacks. Read more
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AP – The 24-year-old Guatemalan mother had already given up her baby once. Now, months later, the baby girl was back in her lap, smiling and playing with her mother’s fingers. Read more
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TIM HORTONS, the Canadian company which is a joint venture partner of Irish food group IAWS has found itself on the receiving end of a major law suit over the preparation of products in its stores. Read more
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Madeleine McCann‘s parents will be told next month what evidence the police have to make them official suspects in her disappearance, it was announced yesterday. Read more
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (June 18) – Taxi driver Saif Khadour swears by his recipe to keep his cherry-red Mercedes Benz on the road: four parts cooking oil to one part turpentine. Other motorists have experimented with different concoctions added to cooking oil, including shots of diesel, motor oil, kerosene, pesticides and even air freshener, [...]
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Millions of families must brace themselves for a gruelling period with finances stretched to breaking point, the Bank of England governor warned last night. Read more