"AU chief calls for strong Afro-Asian partnership"

Guebuza Meets With Mozambicans Resident in South Africa
Mozambicans resident in South Africa, who met on Saturday with President Armando Guebuza, strongly applauded him for the successful conclusion of negotiations for a visa waiver agreement between Mozambique and South Africa.

Egypt to host tri-party summit on Darfur crisis
Leaders from Egypt,Sudan and Ethiopia will discuss the crisis in Sudan's western Darfur region on Tuesday, a Sudanese official told Xinhua Monday.

AU chief calls for strong Afro-Asian partnership
African Union Commission chairperson Alpha Qumar Konare has called for a strong Afro-Asian partnership, multilateralism in global affairs and sharing of China's experience in developing the economy.

Dlamini-Zuma Insists On UN Veto for Africa
Foreign Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma has again insisted that any new African members of the United Nations (UN) Security Council should have veto powers like the existing five members of the council and has promised that SA will work to ensure that the common African position on UN reform is successful. SA, together with Egypt and Nigeria, has expressed an interest in occupying one of two permanent seats on the security council that may be available to Africa when the body is expanded as part of the UN's reform drive.

Africa tells rich: quit haggling and drop the debt

Angola Says Marburg Outbreak Coming Under Control

World Bank path on global poverty is uncertain
WASHINGTON As the spring meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund ended, James Wolfensohn, who will soon retire as the bank's president, sought to put the lack of concrete progress on global poverty initiatives in a hopeful light.

Volcano menaces Indian Ocean islands
NAIROBI, KENYA - About 10,000 people fled their homes in the Comoros archipelago Monday after lava started flowing out of a volcanic peak.

Iraqi president rejects death sentence for Saddam
Iraqi president Jalal Talabani says he will refuse to sign a death warrant for deposed leader Saddam Hussein but he does not think his two deputies will show clemency. Talabani decided to go public with his view even before Saddam stands trial. If Saddam Hussein is indeed to be executed, the death sentence must be endorsed by the Iraqi presidency.

Seventy-Foot Wave Batters Cruise Liner Off Florida

Fidel Castro Announces Massive Voter Turnout in Cuba
President Fidel Castro announced the conclusion of Election Day voting at 6pm Sunday after Cubans went to polls in massive numbers to elect delegates to the country’s 169 municipal governments.

Fidel Castro Votes in Cuba's Local Elections

Khmer Rouge Soldiers Rue Revolution

Mexico should explain how Posada passed through territory
Mexico should explain how Cuban militant Luis Posada Carriles passed through its territory undetected en route to the United States, President Fidel Castro said Sunday.

5 Years for Passing a Joint: Stop this Bill Now
Republican Congressman James Sensenbrenner has launched his next assault on freedom. The full House Judiciary Committee is set to vote as early as next week on H.R. 1528, which creates a new group of mandatory miniumum penalties for non-violent drug offenses, including a five year penalty for passing a joint to someone who's been in drug treatment.

US Marshals, local police stage nationwide mass arrests
In a massive dragnet, US Marshals led more than 90 state, local and other federal police agencies last week in arresting over 10,000 people across the country on outstanding warrants, the Justice Department revealed Thursday.

The next move will be against South America, Venezuela

Allure of the blank slate
From Aceh to Haiti, a predatory form of disaster capitalism is reshaping societies to its own design