"Mbeki attacks 'unfairness' of globalisation"

Venezuela bans US military instructors
Venezuela has ordered US military instructors to stop working with its armed forces in an abrupt cessation of a 35-year-old bilateral military exchange programme.

US 'Wants Airlines to Vet Passenger Lists'
Foreign airlines flying over the United States may soon be forced to provide passenger lists to the US Government, according to reports. US and foreign officials are negotiating over whether the airlines or the US Government would be responsible for checking names against "no fly" watch lists and are expected to make an announcement in a few weeks.

Mbeki attacks "unfairness" of globalisation

Japan pledges to double aid to Africa over 3 years
Junichiro Koizumi, Japan’s prime minister, pledged to double Tokyo’s aid to Africa over the next three years and to work towards lifting Japan’s overall aid contribution to 0.7 per cent of gross domestic product.

Africa: the Other Side of the Coin
THE former South African president Nelson Mandela has become a money-spinning commodity with family and hangers-on positioning themselves for fortune and fame? He is making sad headlines in the media this time. An elitist international-community African icon and historic reconciler, first black South African president, husband, father, grandfather and great-grandfather, Nelson Rohlihlahla Mandela, has become an international brand name, like Coca-Cola and is marketed just like one too.

Hu urges Asia-Africa strategic partnership
President Hu Jintao said here on Friday that Asian and African countries should vigorously carry forward the Bandung Spirit and strengthen solidarity and co-operation to bring about a new type of Asian-African strategic partnership.

Asia-Africa to reassert role

Africa Battles Dearth of Seafarers
Africa accounts for less than one per cent of the total number of seafarers serving on over 50,000 ships engaged in international trade. This ugly situation dominated discusions at a forum recently organized by the Joint Maritime Labour Industrial Council (JOMALIC). Correspondent, WILLY EYA reports.

Utah sits on huge oil reserve
As a prominent advocate for encouraging unconventional energy sources, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) was asked to testify today in front of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on his efforts to develop fuel from a vast untapped domestic oil reserve in tar sandsand oil shale -- a large part of which sits in eastern Utah.

Cuba Keeps Terrorist Posada Carriles Case on US Burner
Havana, April 20 (AIN) Challenging the US government to prove otherwise, President Fidel Castro voiced his certainty Wednesday that terrorist Luis Posada Carriles had traveled from Isla Mujeres in Mexico to Miami and that the terrorist continues to be on US soil.

News and opinions on situation in Haiti
We have on the line with us Dread Wilme, a Lavalas militant and activist in Site SolËy where today there is a massive repression against the population being carried out by United Nations MINUSTHA forces along with the Haitian National Police. Dread Wilme, can you tell the New York area Haitian community through "Lakou New York" at Radio Lakay how is the situation today in Site SolËy?

Global Eye: Gut Check
With fresh indictments last week, the UN oil-for-food scandal took an unexpected turn into the Labyrinth -- the tangled skein of war profiteering and state terrorism that has seen the Bush Family's lust for blood money emerge in three of the darkest criminal episodes in modern American history: Iran-Contra, Iraqgate and the BCCI affair.