"Tsvangirai's Big Head Has No Sanity"

Tsvangirai's Big Head Has No Sanity - Mugabe
BINDURA, Mar. 31 - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has charged opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) president Morgan Tvsangirai's "big head carries no sanity". And President Mugabe said his government could have killed the colonial master Ian Smith because he deserved to die after the country got independence.

I Coast sets election date
Abidjan - Ivory Coast's government announced long-awaited presidential elections will be held October 30, and the top opposition leader said a government decision allowing him to run in the poll was a crucial step toward democracy in the West African state.

This rose has thorns
Steve Biko's famous maxim "Black man you are on your own!" has found expression in South Africa's only organisation specifically for black lesbians who are going it alone.

S. Africa to send more troops to Sudan's Darfur region
The government's spokesman Joel Netshitenzhe said that a cabinet meeting Thursday in Pretoria "agreed to respond positively to a request from the African Union (AU) for additional South African personnel in the African Mission in the Sudan."

South Africa Peacekeepers to Stay Longer in Burundi
The South African government has decided to extend the deployment of its peacekeeping troops in Burundi until March 2006 in an effort to assist the Great Lakes country to reach a stable democracy.

Seven Arab Americans Sue Denny's Owner

Regulator Probe Lenders on Discrimination
New York's Attorney General Eliot Spitzer is investigating mortgage lenders to see if they discriminated against minorities by charging them higher interest rates and fees, a spokeswoman for the attorney general's office said on Thursday.

Cuba, Venezuela Woo Nations on Trade Pact

History lost in dust of war-torn Iraq
It is two years since looters ravaged one of the world's most important museums, in central Baghdad.

How New York City is Failing Black Kids
Under the guise of adhering to President George Bush's "No Child Left Behind" policy, powerful and ruthless politicians and business entities are seeking to steal control of local school systems all over the country. The disturbing trend towards marrying education with business is sometimes overt and sometimes deviously disguised, as was the case when the school system in New York City fell prey to the nefarious predators who had been seeking to capitalize off of the valuable fiscal and human resources held by the former Board of Education. With Washington, D.C. Mayor Anthony Williams and others seeking to drag their city's children into the same quagmire, the New York system's precarious position as guinea pig deserves a closer look.

The Left's Media Miscalculation
In the mid-1970s, after the U.S. defeat in Vietnam and President Richard Nixon's resignation over the Watergate scandal, American progressives held the upper-hand on media. Not only had the mainstream press exposed Nixon's dirty tricks and published the Pentagon Papers secrets of the Vietnam War, but a vibrant leftist "underground" press informed and inspired a new generation of citizens.

Central American Sequel to NAFTA a Hit with Execs
However improbable, the atmosphere in Washington, DC is actually even more rarified and unreal than in Hollywood, as shown by the fact that Congress would even consider the Central America Free Trade Agreement now before it.

Cracks in Decaying Shell of Chernobyl Reactor Threaten Second Disaster
A leading Russian scientist has claimed that the sarcophagus entombing Chernobyl's broken nuclear reactor is dangerously degraded and he warned that its collapse could cause a catastrophe on the same scale as the original accident almost 20 years ago.

Rumsfeld to Free Saddam If He Stops Insurgence
There are claims that US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld during his last visit to Iraq met with ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.

Downer unhappy with Zimbabwe rejoining Rights Commission
The Foreign Affairs Minister Alexander Downer says he is disappointed Zimbabwe has been re-elected to the United Nations Human Rights Commission. Australia will also have a place on the Commission after an election in New York.