"Bush ties strings to aid for Africa"

Farm subsidies keep Africa in poverty, says Brown
Tony Blair and Gordon Brown turned up the moral pressure on European leaders to scrap the £33 billion-a-year Common Agricultural Policy yesterday by saying that over-generous subsidies paid to EU farmers were perpetuating mass poverty in Africa.

Venezuela sets up 'CNN rival'
In a popular shopping area of Caracas, with street musicians playing a bolero in the background, Jorge Botero is filming a promo for Latin America's most ambitious new satellite channel.

Venezuela launches Caribbean oil alliance Petrocaribe

Petrocaribe, a positive step for the region
Hats off to Chavez for putting forward this plan that can benefit the entire Caribbean region. If he and his policies, that are more in line with bringing relief to the disadvantaged, can further influence the region, then that is a good thing.

Bush calls for $1,2bn to curtail malaria in Africa

$1.2bn to 'curtail' malaria in Africa's Oil region, or regions that denounce Mugabe?

Bush ties strings to aid for Africa

U.S. Ends Anti-Terror Drills in Africa

Africa ready for further co-op with Chinese enterprises

Violence is the Engine of U.S. History
Only a democratic society accustomed to war – and predisposed to the use of war and violence – would accept war so quickly, without asking any questions or demanding any answers from its leaders about the war.

Staged rescue?
Australia has denied stage managing the rescue of a hostage in Iraq to promote the image of success against insurgents.

U.S. Blocked Release of CAFTA Reports

Reporter shot to death in Iraq
Yasser Salihee, an Iraqi special correspondent for Knight Ridder, was shot to death in Baghdad last Friday. The shot appears to have been fired by a U.S. military sniper, though there were Iraqi soldiers in the area who also may have been shooting at the time.

Apologies Futile When Wrongs Are Not Righted
Apologies for past injustice mean nothing if the consequences of that injustice are allowed to stand. And, when billions of dollars are being spent on, say, "rebuilding" Iraq, while the lives of millions of poor Americans -- black and white -- continue to fall apart, the United States cannot convincingly lay claim to being either merciful or just.

Zimbabwe - the other half of the story

A Case Not Closed
The confrontation between the United States and Iraq has revived interest in a decade-old charge—that Saddam Hussein ordered the assassination of President George H. W. Bush. This alleged plot has been cited in recent days by the current President Bush as one of the U.S.'s grievances against Hussein. In this article, from 1993, Seymour M. Hersh investigates the assassination story.