"Let Africa have access to international markets"

British Memo Indicates Bush Made Intelligence Fit Iraq Policy
WASHINGTON -- A highly classified British memo, leaked in the midst of Britain's just-concluded election campaign, indicates that President Bush decided to overthrow Iraqi President Saddam Hussein by summer 2002 and was determined to ensure that U.S. intelligence data supported his policy.

Iraq Clouds Blair Victory
LONDON -- The invasion of Iraq rebounded a little on the government of British Prime Minister Tony Blair to dent his majority as he returned to a third term as prime minister. But it was not serious damage. Iraq did not prevent Blair from returning with a comfortable enough majority and this is the first time in its history that a Labour government has been re-elected for a third successive term.

SA and Nigeria try for seats in UN Security Council
Two of the continent's most powerful nations, South Africa and Nigeria have agreed to support each other's candidacies for Africa's two possible future permanent seats on an expanded UN Security Council.

Let Africa have access to international markets
President John Agyekum Kufuor on Thursday called on the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and developed countries to make it possible for Africa to access the international markets more freely. He said: "Currently, Africa does not farewell in those markets because of artificial barriers raised to its products and agricultural subsidies within the developed countries that continued to make Africa's produce uncompetitive."

Africa: Low-Cost Aids Drugs Resold in European Markets
A British pharmaceutical company is under investigation after allegations that it illegally obtained anti-AIDS drugs intended for HIV-positive people in Africa.

SA 'waiting for dust to settle'
South Africa would wait for emotions in Zimbabwe to settle before they attempt to find solutions to the economic crisis in the country, deputy foreign affairs minister Aziz Pahad said on Friday.

Colombians Want Accused GIs to Stand Trial

Arab-Latin summit motive questioned
The first ever summit between South American and Arab leaders in Brazil next week is intended to boost trade and investment but has already prompted US concern it will become a platform to attack its Middle East policy.

Cuba's Castro criticizes new OAS leader
HAVANA -- Cuban President Fidel Castro criticized the Organization of American States and its new Chilean secretary-general, accusing him of using "insolent, interventionist" language to suggest change is needed in communist Cuba.

Israeli soldier sentenced to four months
of unpaid work for killing Palestinian child
In a mockery of justice, an Israeli military court has sentenced a Zionist occupation soldier to four months of unpaid "military works" for killing a three-year-old Palestinian child near the northern West Bank of Jenin nearly two years ago.

50 Years after His Murder, Emmett Till to Be Exhumed
The mutilated body of Emmett Till, which when pulled from a Mississippi river in 1955 became a grotesque icon of the segregated South, will be exhumed as part of a renewed investigation of the black Chicago teenager's 50-year-old murder.

FOX News Still Says Saddam Hussein Was Involved With 9/11

Muslim soldier gets the death penalty while...
Politicians forgive murder in Iraq