"Sudan: Nothing in Place Yet for Returnees"

G-20 demands end to trade-distorting farm subsidies
A powerful block of 20 developing countries demanded on Saturday that rich nations scrap all trade-distorting subsidies for farm goods within five years.

Text of the Declaration by Palestinians
The following is the text of declaration issued by 13 Palestinian groups issued Thursday at the end of three days of meetings in this satellite city of Cairo.

Kuwait to charge US for fuel
The days when a US Army truck could fill up for free at a petrol station in Kuwait are coming to an end.

Israeli court indicts Vanunu
Israeli nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu was indicted on Thursday for violating the terms of his release from prison, the Israeli Justice Ministry announced. Vanunu was freed from an Israeli prison last April after completing an 18-year sentence for revealing secrets of Israel's nuclear program to the Sunday Times newspaper in London.

Castro Announces Revaluation of Cuban Currency
President Fidel Castro late Thursday announced a 7 percent revaluation of Cuba's national currency, giving Cubans slightly more buying power as the communist-run island moves to reassert greater control over its economy.

Road blocks suspended as Congress approves gas tax law
The crisis in Bolivia appears to be unwinding and the first victim of this emerging clarity could be President Carlos Mesa himself.

Payout for Pinochet victims shines in dark times for human rights
On February 25, Riggs Bank agreed to pay $9 million into a fund for victims of Augusto Pinochet to settle a case over the bank’s role in hiding the former Chilean dictator's ill-gotten gains.

Students Stage Counter-Recruitment Protests Across the Country
Students around the country have launched a national week of campus resistance to mark the second anniversary of the Iraq invasion and high profile counter-recruitment protests are being staged at university campuses around the country. We speak with a former marine and recruiter's assistant who is now speaking out against the military and two people arrested during a protest against military recruiters on university campus...

Killer Angolan fever claims 87
An outbreak of an unidentified haemorrhagic fever has claimed the lives of 87 people in northern Angola over the past four months, health ministry spokesperson Carlos Alberto said on Friday.

Kenya: 1,500 Families Flee From Inter-Clan Violence in Mandera
An estimated 1,500 families have fled their homes following the killing earlier this week of 22 people by armed raiders in the northeastern Kenyan district of Mandera, a spokesman for the Kenya Red Cross Society (KRCS) said on Thursday.

Obasanjo Rejects Privatisation Bill
President Olusegun Obasanjo yesterday rejected the Privatisation and Commercialisation of Public Enterprises Bill, 2004 as passed by the National Assembly alleging "a clear case of interference and encroachment into executive function which amounts to near running the affairs of commercialised enterprises by the National Assembly."

Castro rips Forbes for putting him on rich list
The Cuban government, in a press statement issued by its embassy in Mexico, called the story a "clumsy slander and a repugnant example of the campaign of lies" orchestrated against Cuba in the United States.

Sudan: Nothing in Place Yet for Returnees
A small group of around 2,000 people, displaced by a war that had lasted over two decades, arrived by river barge in the central Sudanese town of Malakal in March 2004.

Afghan crime makes some miss Taliban
Rampant kidnappings and killings in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar is fostering nostalgia for the extremist Muslims who once ruled the community.