"Napoleon's genocide 'on a par with Hitler'"

Napoleon's genocide 'on a par with Hitler'
A French historian has caused uproar by claiming Napoleon provided the model for Hitler's Final Solution with the slaughter of more than 100,000 Caribbean slaves. In The Crime of Napoleon, Claude Ribbe accuses the emperor of genocide, gassing rebellious blacks more than a century before the Nazis' extermination of the Jews.

NAMIBIA: Mass grave discoveries opens old wounds

Africans to decide ex-Chad dictator's fate
The African Union will decide the fate of Chad's former dictator, wanted in Belgium for trial on human-rights abuses allegedly committed during his regime, Senegal's foreign minister said Sunday.

Early results show Mugabe's party wins
Zimbabwe's ruling party cemented its grip on power Sunday, sweeping an overwhelming majority of seats in a new Senate amid bitter and potentially irreconcilable divisions in the main opposition group.

New Liberian President Faces Enormous Challenges
Excitement runs high in the streets of the Liberian capital, Monrovia, as thousands of residents rejoice over the announcement of the country's first woman president. With all the votes counted, the Election Commission said the former banker Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, pulled nearly 60 percent of the Nov. 8 run-off votes compared to the 41 percent of former soccer star, George Oppong Weah. Weah has alleged that massive fraud marred the election, and called on electoral authorities to investigate his claims before Johnson-Sirleaf was officially declared the winner.

Egypt deports Korean, Swedish women for allegedly working as missionaries
Egyptian authorities deported two female students _ one from Sweden and the other from South Korea _ on charges they tried to convert Muslims to Christianity, according to diplomats and a church official.

Bird Flu and Chicken Factory Farms: Profit Bonanza for US Agribusiness

America is caught in a conflict between science and God

Israeli settlers destroy Palestinian olive trees

The leak that revealed Bush's deep obsession with al-Jazeera

To burn children by phosphorus - this is civilized