"SADC observers happy with Zimbabwe elections"

Vatican confirms that the Pope is dead

Papal candidate gives pro-Zionist talk
A cardinal considered a candidate to succeed Pope John Paul II delivered a strong message in favor of Jewish settlement in the Holy Land on Wednesday night, rejecting the claim that European Christians' support for the State of Israel is based on Holocaust guilt and saying that all Christians should affirm Zionism as a biblical imperative for the Jewish people.

Spain Rejects Claims of Fueling Arms Race

Final food aid donation from UN program
The United Nations' World Food Program is making its final food donation to China after more than 25 years of providing aid, it said.

Terri Schiavo, 84,000 Black Men,
and Dominant Media's Selective Morality
The death of Terri Schiavo versus recent reports showing that unequal health care contributes to more than 100,000 black Americans dying earlier than whites each year. Thanks to that media's obsessive coverage of the Schiavo tragedy, nearly every moderately cognizant American adult has an opinion on whether it is right for doctors to act to release Schiavo from her dreadful vegetative state. Sadly, only a small number of Americans have any kind of opinion on a recent report showing that middle-aged black men are dying at nearly twice the rate as white men of a similar age.

Veterans Group Calls on Congress to Impeach George W. Bush and Richard Cheney

Iraqi blogger on martial law

Soldiers 'smuggled' cocaine
Five United States army soldiers are being investigated for allegedly trying to smuggle 16kg of cocaine from Colombia aboard a US military aircraft, US and Colombian officials said on Thursday.

SADC observers happy with Zimbabwe elections
The Southern African Developing Community (SADC) election observer mission says Zimbabwe's parliamentary elections were conducted in an open, transparent and professional manner. The mission has issued its report on yesterday's poll, the first by a major observer mission.

Zimbabwe Opposition Seems to Crumble after Parliament Elections
In spite of knowing itself in possesion of over 20 seats in urban zones against two of the ruling party ZANU-PF, Zimbabwe opposition seems today on the verge of lowering their flag after Thursday´s elections. As Prensa Latina got to know, the general headquarters of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) informed that the main opposition force estimates it won´t obtain even 50 of the 120 benches in discussion. If that is so, the Zimbabwe African National Union Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) is about to obtain the two-thirds of the seats it expected according to the Constitution in order to deepen the program of transformations begun after achieving independence in 1980.

Rice Says Zimbabwe Vote Unfair, Not Free

Mugabe's Party Wins Majority in Zimbabwe

Moyo makes a comeback
President Robert Mugabe's disgraced right-hand man, Jonathan Moyo, was elected on Friday as an independent candidate in parliamentary polls in Zimbabwe, the election commission said.

Zim's elections at a glance

SADC observers happy with Zimbabwe elections