"Togo election"

GM industry puts human gene into rice
Scientists have begun putting genes from human beings into food crops in a dramatic extension of genetic modification. The move, which is causing disgust and revulsion among critics, is bound to strengthen accusations that GM technology is creating "Frankenstein foods" and drive the controversy surrounding it to new heights.

Asia-Africa leaders pay nostalgic Indonesian visit

China-Japan feud steals the spotlight at summit

Togo election set to unleash new terror in Africa
Africa's longest reigning military dictator until he dropped dead from a heart attack two months ago, made a big error in the mid-1990s when the foreign ministers of France and Germany visited Togo to discuss whether European Union sanctions on the west African country might be eased. A crowd gathered in Lomé, Togo's capital, to greet the foreign ministers. The people, overwhelmingly southerners, got a little over-enthusiastic and soldiers, most of them drawn from Eyadema's northern Kabiye tribe, demonstrated to the Europeans the routine Togolese method of crowd control by opening fire and killing several people. Sanctions were not relaxed.

Asia, Africa should end energy dependence: Manmohan
India has called for Asia and Africa to end their "anomalous" dependence on Western governments and companies for the buying and selling of oil and gas, saying it was high time the two continents - which include some of the world's largest producers and consumers of energy - evolved a "framework" of their own.

Drugs for Third World 'sold to NHS'
Drugs intended to fight HIV in the Third World are being hijacked and sold to Britain's NHS for criminal profit, it has emerged.

Iran resumes defiance on nuke development
Says it will resume uranium enrichment regardless of talks' outcome

N.Korean General Says U.S. Brought Talks to Collapse
The United States has brought six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear programs to a collapse, the chief of the general staff of the North Korean army said on Sunday.

Bush's Most Radical Plan Yet
With a vote of hand-picked lobbyists, the president could terminate any federal agency he dislikes

Aristide ally blasts U.S. policy, officials
Haitian priest and former Miami activist the Rev. Gerard Jean-Juste said two top U.S. diplomats need to resign amid reports the United States sold arms to Haiti. Saying the Haitian people need food, not bullets, the Rev. Gerard Jean-Juste on Friday demanded the resignation of two top U.S. State Department officials he accused of helping to arm Haiti's interim government.

Rice changed terrorism report
A state department report which showed an increase in terrorism incidents around the world in 2004 was altered to strip it of its pessimistic statistics, it emerged yesterday.

School video catches police handcuffing girl aged five
Three American police officers who were caught on video handcuffing a disruptive five-year-old at her nursery school are under investigation.