"Out of Africa"

Weapons Inspector Ends WMD Search in Iraq
Wrapping up his investigation into Saddam Hussein's purported arsenal, the CIA's top weapons hunter in Iraq said his search for weapons of mass destruction "has been exhausted" without finding any.

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Barbary apes out of Africa
DNA analysis today reveals that Europe's only free-ranging monkeys - the so-called Barbary apes of Gibraltar - are all descended from two ancient populations from the forests of Algeria and Morocco.

Report Finds No Evidence Syria Hid Iraqi Arms
U.S. investigators hunting for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq have found no evidence that such material was moved to Syria for safekeeping before the war, according to a final report of the investigation released yesterday.

Exxonmobil Gives Future Market to Africa
AMERICAN oil multinational, ExxonMobil says African producer nations are well positioned to grab a big share of the expanding global energy market, pointing out that half of the oil and gas reserves that will contain demands by 2010 have neither been discovered or developed.

Ethiopian Obelisk Returns Under Watchful Eye of UN
One of Ethiopia's most iconic monuments, the celebrated obelisk of Aksum, has finally returned home 68 years after Italian soldiers carted it off to Rome during Mussolini's invasion, its re-installation eased by United Nations experts who in the process discovered more archaeological treasures under a parking lot.

Ghanaian Investors Urged to Invest in Equatorial Guinea

The 'miracle pill' that makes your body tan itself
The sun is about to set on the tanning industry of northern Europe. Scientists have developed a "self-browning" implant which threatens to leave the sunbed and the spray-on tan in the shade.

Massive Biological Attacks Begin Against Axis Forces in Afghanistan While Russian President Travels to Israel in Desperate Attempt to Stop Global War

Massive Crowds Show Support for Embattled Mexico City Mayor

Saudi Arabia Close to Deal on WTO Entry

Hyde reflects, Shaw reports, Web site revises
On WLS' 10 p.m. newscast Shaw characterized this as Hyde "admitting for the first time that the impeachment of Clinton was in part political revenge against the Democrats for impeaching a GOP president, Richard Nixon, 25 years earlier."

The Nature of CIA Intervention in Venezuela
Philip Agee is a former CIA operative who left the agency in 1967 after becoming disillusioned by the CIA's support for the status quo in the region. Says Agee, "I began to realize that what I and my colleagues had been doing in Latin America in the CIA was no more than a continuation of nearly five-hundred years of this, exploitation and genocide and so forth. And I began to think about what, until then would have been unthinkable, which was to write a book on how it all works." The book, Inside the Company: CIA Diary, was an instant best-seller and was eventually published in over thirty languages. In 1978, three years after the publication of CIA Diary, Agee and a group of like-minded journalists began publishing the Covert Operations Information Bulletin (now Covert Action Quarterly), as part of a strategy of "guerilla journalism" aimed at destabilizing the CIA and exposing their operations.