"Chirac, Mbeki in I Coast spat"

U.S. won't attack Iran - yet
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has begun her first foreign tour as America's top diplomat by saying that Washington had no immediate plans to attack Iran and was pursuing a diplomatic approach.

Addis art exhibits honour Bob Marley
Dreadlocks flailed, marijuana smoke billowed and guitars wailed in new images of Bob Marley displayed in Ethiopia on Friday at the 60th anniversary celebrations of the late reggae star's birthday.

UN official solicited oil deal from Iraq says report
A senior UN official solicited and received allocations of oil from Iraq for a trading company while he was directing the UN oil-for-food program, a key investigative report said on Thursday.

Bush's Liberty Song Echoes Vietnam Tune
When U.S. President George W. Bush strode into the Capitol to give his State of the Union address last night, his supporters waved their darkened fingers at him in celebration of his triumph at the Iraqi polls.

Actor Ossie Davis found dead in hotel
NEW YORK -- Ossie Davis, an actor distinguished for roles dealing with racial injustice on stage, screen and in real life - and perhaps best known as the husband and partner of actress Ruby Dee - has died at the age of 87.

Chirac, Mbeki in I Coast spat
Pretoria - The tense relationship between South Africa and France over the crisis in Ivory Coast has been tested further by a scathing attack by French president Jacques Chirac on President Thabo Mbeki's peace brokering attempts in the former French colony. Chirac, while visiting Dakar, Senegal, on Wednesday, intimated that Mbeki "did not understand West Africa" and said it was untrue that France wanted to "conquer" Ivory Coast.

S.Africa sees "positive" poll reforms in Zimbabwe
South Africa on Thursday praised electoral changes in Zimbabwe, calling them "positive developments" ahead of a March poll seen as a crucial test of the country's commitment to democratic reforms.

Mandela tells Britain: it is time for justice
"As you know, I recently formally announced my retirement from public life and should not really be here," said Mr Mandela. The crowd laughed, and listened while, with his slow, deliberate, deep voice, he read out the call to act against African poverty. "Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity," he said. "It is an act of justice."

Cuba Says Illiteracy Must Be Eliminated
Cuba's Minister of Education Luis Ignacio Gomez said in Havana that the world has the obligation to respond to humanity's call for eradicating illiteracy as part of the fight for social justice and emancipation.

Cuba willing to assist Latin America in literacy efforts
Cuban Education Minister Luis Ignacio Gomez on Jan. 31 said that Cuba and Venezuela are willing to work with other Latin American countries in efforts to eliminate illiteracy in the region by using the pedagogical methods Cuba has successfully employed in Venezuela.

Is Fox News prepping us for war with Venezuela?
News Hound is reporting that Venezuela has a lot of oil. We (USA) use a lot of oil. Venezuela is our 4th largest supplier of oil. Venezuela's President has a mind of his own. Two days ago, for example, he blasted US imperialism.

Poverty 'is like slavery'
Nelson Mandela yesterday compared widespread poverty in developing countries to man-made evils such as slavery and apartheid, and urged wealthy nations to do more to fight it.

DR Congo's Leopold statue removed
A statue of the Belgian colonial king, Leopold II, has been taken down just hours after it was re-erected in the Democratic Republic of Congo capital.

The ball is in Europe's court
The death of Yasser Arafat is seen by many people of good will as a chance to revive the peace process. Mahmud Abbas (Abu Mazen) is hailed as a moderate leader. A leader who has openly opposed the armed Intifada. The Palestinians are bathing in the exciting energies of a democratic election campaign just like a prisoner bathing in a small pool of sun entering his cell through a tiny skylight. One of the reasons they have elected Abu Mazen was to appease Bush and Sharon, hoping that in return, the strangling Israeli grip on their lives will loosen a little.

Fraud Rife In Baghdad Elections;
"Israeli" Reporters Allowed To Vote
The correspondents found that the Iraqi Communist Party, a lackey organization of the US invaders, and the National Accord Party, which is led by puppet "prime minister" Iyyad 'Allawi, hired groups of women, children, youths and unemployed persons to work for them. These people were trotted before television cameras several times on Sunday to claim that there was "heavy voter turnout" at the polling places.

Can the FBI Monitor Your Web Browsing Without a Warrant?
PATRIOT expanded pen-traps to include devices that monitor Internet communications. But the line between non-content and content is a lot blurrier online than it is on phone networks. The DOJ has said openly that the new definitions allow pen-traps to collect email and IP addresses. However, the DOJ has not been so forthcoming about web surveillance. It won't reveal whether it believes URLs can be collected using pen-traps, despite the fact that URLs clearly reveal content by identifying the web pages being read.