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Wide view of the General Assembly meeting on "United Nations Reform: measures and proposals; progress achieved in the work of the Peacebuilding Commission", presided over by General Assembly President Haya Rashed Al Khalifa (on widescreen panel
Asia   Burma   Humanitarian   Junta   Military   Photos   Typhoon   UN   World		  International Herald Tribune 
The UN's responsibility to protect
The military junta in Burma is failing the most basic responsibility of any government - to take care of its citizens. In the wake of the devastating typhoon that killed at least 32,000 people and... (photo: UN /Eskinder Debebe)
Roman Catholic Archbishop Pius Ncube talks to media in his office at the Catholic Church in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, on Wednesday, March 30, 2005. Ncube said he will vote in elections on Thursday. Political parties in Zimbabwe held final rallies Wednesday to
Harare   Photos   Politics   Priests   Religion		  BBC News 
Zimbabwe's turbulent priests
By Peter Tinona Harare The imposing Anglican Cathedral of St Mary and All Saints in central Harare was almost deserted on Sunday following months of violent clashes and legal wrangles between rival... (photo: AP /Schalk van Zuydam)
US President Bush has sent B-52 bombers to Guam after North Korean jets buzzed US spy plane  Infowars 
South Africa: High-Flying Sky Spy May Guard 2010
SECURITY for the 2010 Soccer World Cup will include state-of-the-art airborne surveillance systems. One of the latest hi-tech gizmos being considered by the government is an early warning system... (photo: USAF file photo)
Africa   Photos   Security   Soccer   South Africa   Surveillance   World
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Supermarket robbers face jail

Walter Ka Nkosi Nelspruit - Five men implicated in the murder of two supermarket guards and theft of items worth over R60 000 will be sentenced on Tuesday in the Middelburg circuit of the Pretoria... (photo: WN / Renzelle Mae Abasolo)
Jail   Murder   Photos   Pretoria   Theft
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Yemeni Foreign Minister Abu Bakr Abdulla al-Kurbi IRINnews
YEMEN: Eradicating onchocerciasis could take 10 years - local NGO
web Photo: Mohammed al-Jabri/IRIN SANAA, - A local non-governmental organisation (NGO) has said it will take 8-10 years to eradicate onchocerciasis, a disease which leads... (photo: AP )
Arab   Asia   Health   Onchocerciasis   Photo   Photos   Sanaa   Yemen
President Bush, accompanied by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, makes a statement at the State Department in Washington, Monday, March 24, 2008. Asia Times
Hezbollah's shots ring in Bush's ears
By Jim Lobe WASHINGTON - While this week's trip by President George W Bush to Israel, Saudi Arabia and Egypt was never conceived as a triumphant "victory lap" around the... (photo: AP / Gerald Herbert)
Lebanon   Mideast   Peace   Photos   US
Poland 2007. Oil Stations in Poland :BP , Statoil, LOTOS, Orlen. Oil and gas prices in Poland. Polish Rafineries in EU. (mb1) WN Photographer Business Report
High prices to drive Africa's economy

Maputo - Africa's economy will grow by 6.0 percent this year and next, an acceleration from 2007, owing to high oil prices and demand for commodities, research from the... (photo: WN/Marzena Bozek)
Africa   Economy   Maputo   Photos   Prices
A view of the company Bogoso Gold Limited, open cast gold mine near the town of Prestea, Ghana, Sept. 27, 2005. Gold prices, much of it mined in Africa, are hitting new 25-year highs, letting mining companies post surging revenues as they search for new ways to extract every nugget from the ground. Yet one thing they say they can't do is substantially increase production, a limitation that could keep prices high for years.hg3 Business Report
Weather and power problems knock mine output
Johannesburg - South Africa's total mining production for the first quarter of 2008, after seasonal adjustment, decreased by 8.3 percent compared with the previous... (photo: AP / Olivier Asselin)
Business   Climate   Photos   Production   S Africa
South African Airways /aaeh Business Report
SAA 'strong enough' to take market pressure
Johannesburg - South African Airways (SAA) will fail to achieve a profit margin of 7.5 percent by March next year due to soaring oil prices, chief... (photo: public domain )
Airlines   Energy   Industry   Market   Photos
People walk past the front entrance of Maponya Mall in Soweto, South Africa, Thursday, Sept. 27, 200 Mail Guardian South Africa
ADB: Africa's economy to grow by 6% in 2008
Africa's economy will grow by 6% this year and next, an acceleration from 2007, owing to high oil prices and demand for commodities, research from the African Development... (photo: AP)
Africa   Business   Economy   Market   Photos


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Northern Africa
A picture taken Saturday, May 26, 2007, and made available by the Italian Navy Monday, May 28, 2007, showing a group of 27 immigrants hanging on a tuna fishing net after their boat sank off the coast of Malta. The immigrants, coming from Africa, were res 50 immigrants die off Tunisia News24
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, also known as Abu Mazen, right, meets Egyptian intelligence chief Omar Suleiman Egypt optimistic about Israel-Hamas truce Independent online (SA)
A part of the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant is seen, some 750 miles (1,245 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, April 3, 2007 (tmg1) Nuclear-reactor plans fuel fears Seattle Times
Gordon Brown Kremlin: British PM Brown calls Medvedev, meeting planned for July AOL
Eastern Africa
Wetland Nema Chief Accused of Abetting Wetland Destruction All Africa
** FILE ** Democratic presidential hopefuls, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., right, and Sen. Barack Obama stand together before a Democratic presidential debate in Los Angeles in this Jan. 31, 2008 (tmg1) Apostate president? International Herald Tribune
An internally displaced Kenyan child carries her belongings as she seeks refuge at a police station in Thika, on the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya, Friday Feb. 1, 2008. Kenyan refugees fear going home BBC News
Tanzania's President Jakaya Kikwete speaks during the Nonaligned Summit in Havana, Cuba, Saturday, Sept. 16, 2006. (js1) Investigations of $133m EPA Scandal Could Go On for Another Three Months All Africa
Western Africa
A worker carries relief aid distributed by the World Food Program from a truck in Nhwali, southwestern Zimbabwe, Saturday, Sept. 7, 2002. An estimated 6 million of Zimbabwe's 12.5 million people are threatened by a hunger crisis caused by a terrible drought and the government's chaotic land reform program, which has badly wounded its agriculture-based economy, according to the World Food Program. Liberia bans food exports to protect rice supply The Charlotte Observer
Swartberg Pass Hon. Alpha Kanu At the Fourth Conference of Ecowas Ministers of Public Service All Africa
Senegal´s President Abdoulaye Wade, looks at the election ink on his finger after he cast his ballot, during elections in Dakar, Senegal, Sunday, Feb. 25, 2007. President Abdoulaye Wade sought to win a second seven-year term in office Sunday, facin Wade Threatens to Sue FAO All Africa
President Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria speaking to correspondents during a press conference to brief on "Building on Gleneagles", an initiative to assist in the fight against poverty in Africa, today at UN Headquarters. ula1 My Power Project Story, by Olusegun Obasanjo All Africa