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07/08/2005:

"Experts meet on strengthening mechanisms for regional peace"

450 Sheep Jump to Their Deaths in Turkey
ISTANBUL, Turkey - First one sheep jumped to its death. Then stunned Turkish shepherds, who had left the herd to graze while they had breakfast, watched as nearly 1,500 others followed, each leaping off the same cliff, Turkish media reported.

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France: Recasting Colonialism As a Good Thing
France and other European countries are claiming, either officially or through historians, that colonialism was a positive thing.

Food for African Thought
If rock stars oppose poverty, that's great. But if they are fooled into helping only the most superficial relief efforts, that's a sad loss of an opportunity. Someone has to address the unjust system, not merely its results

Why Live8 was a switch-off
Live8 was a triumph of rock over reality. A day when black communities were patronised and marginalised. There was no need to put a 'no blacks' sign on the gate. As predicted, the line-up for Saturday's Live8 gig guaranteed a virtually all-white audience.

Zimbabwe Currency Stabilizes as Informal Market Dwindles

GREAT LAKES: Experts meet on strengthening mechanisms for regional peace

London Hit as Scepticism Grows on "Terror War"

Diamond Producers 'Fail to Back Kimberley Process'
Diamonds continue to fuel conflict in the eastern DR Congo and are also playing a role in the conflict in Cote d'Ivoire.

GREAT LAKES: Arms from Eastern Europe fueling rights abuse, Amnesty says
Large quantities of arms continue to flow into the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) fueling gross human rights abuse including killings, rape and torture.

SUDAN: New constitution clears way for unity government
The ratification on Wednesday of a new transitional constitution by Sudan's national assembly and the legislative council of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A), cleared the way for the inauguration of a government of national unity.

Unicef Calls for Tough Adoption Laws

Judge clears Barclays to buy South Africa's Absa
A Johannesburg court has approved British bank Barclays PLC's 33 billion rand ($5.6-billion U.S.) bid for a controlling stake in Absa Group Ltd., clearing the way for the biggest single foreign investment in a South African company.

The high court dismissed objections from human rights lobby group Jubilee South Africa, which argued in court that Barclays should not be allowed to return to South Africa until it offered reparations to apartheid victims.

Oxfam: U.S., EU must cut farm subsidies

The Smash of Civilizations
The US invasion visited destruction upon the historical inheritance not only of Iraqis but of us all.

Forum of the People slams development programs for Africa
The bevy of development programs for Africa, including the homegrown economic action plan known as NEPAD, came under heavy criticism at the Forum of the People under way in this Malian cotton town. We must rethink development on our continent, and allow the people their voice, for they alone know what they want."

'Nigeria Loses $500m Annually to Ecology'

More Chinese companies invest in Zambia's mining sector

Malawi hopes to make Aids drugs
Malawi is considering domestic production of drugs to treat sufferers of HIV/Aids, in response to growing concerns about affordable and sustainable supplies of medicine.

Boat capsizes off Cameroon killing 30

London Bombing has the Scent of an Inside Job

What's Behind the London Attacks?
The bombing of the London Underground was a false-flag operation designed to keep the West mired in war. Don't believe otherwise.

Betrayed by the G8 - but resistance grows world wide
It's business as usual for the G8, who despite the rhetoric will at the end of this week produce a document that will do nothing effective to alleviate poverty or halt climate change.

As we near the end of a week of protests activists spoke to Socialist Worker about the G8. Ghanaian campaigner Mani Tanoh said, "People around the world are not fooled by the empty words from the G8."

Iraq to launch military co-operation with Iran
Iraq's Defense Minister, on a historic visit to Iran, said that both countries decided to launch a broad militdecided to launch a broad military co-operation.

Galloway Wary Of Staged Terror Attack As Pretext For Iran Invasion
Galloway turned the tables and put the entire US establishment on trial for arming Saddam, imposing genocidal sanctions which killed a million Iraqis, and then the two illegal wars which killed and maimed hundreds of thousands more.

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