"Riot police move to evict Bob Marley Street"

Riot police move to evict Bob Marley Street
RIOT POLICE moved into 'Bob Marley Street' this morning to evict residents from London's oldest squatted street.

Namibia refuses to sign colonial reparations deal
Namibian officials refused on Monday to sign a deal under which Germany would pay reparations to its former colony for the massacre of the local Herero and Dama populations during the colonial era, which lasted from 1884 to 1915.

Cuba fights AIDS with free drugs
HIV-positive Cubans, at first mainly heterosexuals but later increasingly homosexuals, were shut away in a sanatorium, a controversial policy that drew international criticism. Cuba stopped quarantining in 1993 and allows people with HIV to stay at home after a course to teach them how to look after themselves and not spread the virus. Universal free access to locally made generic antiretroviral drugs has kept AIDS cases and deaths very low, said the UNAIDS program.

Darfur peace talks resume
Two Darfur rebel movements spoke with one voice at the launch of a seventh round of peace talks with the Sudanese government on Tuesday, acting on a pledge to halt infighting that has hampered progress.

GABON: Landslide win for Africa's longest serving president
Omar Bongo, president of Gabon since 1967, has won a landslide victory at the polls, securing a further seven years at the helm of the small oil-producing nation.

Single visa to be launched for Southern Africa
Marthinus van Schalkwyk, the environmental affairs and tourism minister, says government will from 2008, introduce a single visa to be known as the Univisa for the whole Southern African region.

South Africa to Probe Death of Tenor
CAPE TOWN, South Africa - Police have launched a probe into the deaths of an internationally acclaimed South African opera singer and his father, both of whom were found shot to death at the family's wine estate.

Seventh Round of Darfur Talks Begins in Nigeria
The seventh round of Inter-Sudanese Peace Talks on Darfur is underway in Abuja, Nigeria. The talks kicked off yesterday. They bring together the government of Sudan and rebel groups in its western Darfur region – the Sudan Liberation Movement, or SLM, and the Justice and Equality Movement.

US: Zim vote a 'non-event'
The United States on Monday dismissed as a "non-event" Zimbabwe's election for a new upper house of parliament that produced a huge majority for the party of President Robert Mugabe.

BBC Newsspeak – ‘Credible sources’

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An Interview with Stanley Tookie Williams

Virginia Stays 1,000th Execution

Tookie Williams Granted Private Clemency Hearing

Brazil's slave descendents seek justice