By Anne Penketh, Diplomatic Editor The Independent Published: 28 September 2007 The Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, has been forced to backtrack after dropping a diplomatic clanger, notably upsetting Egypt, Nigeria and Germany, by endorsing four other countries as future permanent… Continue Reading
By Meghan Sapp DURBAN, Sep 27 (IPS) – Biofuels offer Africa the chance to supply itself with alternative energy sources, and also to become a major supplier of these sources for developed markets. Yet, challenges — from creating the relevant… Continue Reading
By Abdoulaye Wade September 27, 2007 FOR MUCH of the last half-century, the role that African-Americans play in Africa has been more a subject of lip service and rhetorical fealty than reality. That is about to change. Without much notice… Continue Reading
By David Cronin BRUSSELS, Sep 27 (IPS) – Seven months after a major investigation spelt out Europe’s involvement in a murky U.S. torture and kidnapping programme, the EU’s governments have claimed they are powerless to prevent such human rights abuses… Continue Reading
Sabin Russell, Chronicle Staff Writer Wednesday, September 26, 2007 With little hope that they will be able to meet their goal of providing universal access to AIDS drugs by 2010, global health strategists have come up with a Plan B.… Continue Reading
By Khody Akhavi WASHINGTON, Sep 26 (IPS) – Iraq, a quagmire? “No, that’s someone else’s business,” former U.S. Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld brusquely told the White House press corps in the summer of 2003. “I don’t do quagmires.” The… Continue Reading
By Kristi Heim Seattle Times business reporter At the World Bank headquarters in Washington, D.C., a malaria-prevention group funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation hosted lunch recently for 35 African ambassadors and a special guest, South African pop… Continue Reading
By Zoltán Dujisin PRAGUE, Sep 25 (IPS) – The case of an ethnic Hungarian student who claims to have been attacked by Slovak xenophobes has come to symbolise the persistent clashes that strain relations between two of the EU (European… Continue Reading
IAN JAMES Hugo Chavez is driving across the plains of Venezuela, raving about a Hollywood film in which the enslaved hero rises up to challenge the emperor of Rome. “‘Gladiator’ — What a movie! I saw it three times,” the… Continue Reading
By Stephen Leahy BROOKLIN, Canada, Sep 24 (IPS) – Stockholders, investors and financial analysts are now demanding to know how climate change will affect companies’ bottom line, and a new report reveals large corporations’ risks and opportunities.
By Howard LaFranchi | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. The United States wants the United Nations playing a larger role in Iraq. And the UN – with a new mandate in hand that calls for… Continue Reading
By Marwaan Macan-Markar BANGKOK, Sep 21 (IPS) – Burma’s Buddhist monks are threatening to turn an on-going protest against steep hikes in fuel prices into a religious and moral showdown with the country’s oppressive military regime.
Interview with Jean Bricmont, author of ‘Humanitarian Imperialism’ BRUSSELS, Sep 20 (IPS) – International law is seen by many to have been shunted aside by Western powers when launching their most significant military operations in the past decade. In 1999,… Continue Reading
By ALAN FEUER The cast of characters evoked by a major prosecution witness at the federal kickbacks trial of the Texas oilman Oscar S. Wyatt Jr. has included former chiefs of the State and Treasury Departments, a former director of… Continue Reading
By Maureen Fan Washington Post Foreign Service Wednesday, September 19, 2007; A16 MIANCHI, China — Twice a week, just after school lets out in this small county in Henan province, a 13-year-old girl with a short bob and wide smile… Continue Reading
By Anuradha Kher UNITED NATIONS, Sep 18 (IPS) – As much as 50 percent of the world’s fish stocks are fully exploited and 17 percent are over-exploited, putting marine biodiversity at severe risk, according to a new report released Tuesday… Continue Reading
Por Demba Moussa Dembele (*) DAKAR, Sep (IPS) Ãfrica y Europa comparten una historia que se extiende a lo largo de más de cinco siglos. En su mayor parte los paÃses africanos fueron colonias europeas. Esta fue una historia de… Continue Reading
Paul Owen Tuesday September 18, 2007 Guardian Unlimited Up to 600,000 illegal immigrants would be eligible for an amnesty under plans adopted today by the Liberal Democrats. The party’s annual conference in Brighton voted in favour of a plan to… Continue Reading
Interview with Tariq Ali LAHORE, Pakistan, Sep 16 (IPS) – Eminent writer, historian and filmmaker Tariq Ali was born in Lahore in 1943. While a student at Oxford University, he became involved in the movement against the war in Vietnam.… Continue Reading
By Stephen Leahy MONTREAL, Sep 17 (IPS) – Delegates from 191 nations are in Montreal, Canada this week to celebrate and extend the world’s most successful environmental treaty, the Montreal Protocol to protect the ozone layer. With 95 percent of… Continue Reading
