"Africa loses out"

Zimbabwe Due to Deport Alleged Mercenaries
Zimbabwe authorities were due to release and deport to South Africa on Wednesday 60 alleged mercenaries accused of planning a coup in Equatorial Guinea.

Zimbabwe continues to keep trade relations with East Asia
Zimbabwean Minister of Industry and International Trade Obert Mpofu said on Wednesday the country will continue to keep trade relations with its neighbors and the Far East aimed at improving the smooth flow of Zimbabwe's exports to these regions.

South Africa to host Export Africa 2005 in May
South Africa is to host Export Africa 2005 exhibition in Midrand next week, according to the Department of Trade and Industry here on Wednesday.

Africa loses out - UN
Rich nations are discriminating against Africa on desperately needed aid for humanitarian crises which has resulted in very meagre food rations for thousands of people, no food for others and many deaths, the United Nations humanitarian chief said.

This Is Not The First Time
The scandal of Iraqi POW abuse at Abu Ghraib has the world in an uproar. However, there is a precedent that went unnoticed and underreported of brutal treatment of Iraqi POWs — the 1991 abuse of Iraqi POWs during and after Operation Desert Storm.

10,000 Ugandans to Get Iraq, US Security Jobs
At least 200 Ugandan youths on Saturday signed up for security work in Iraq and at American installations worldwide. The Ugandans who go to Iraq will be deployed to guard public and private installations in the war-ravaged country where the United States forces continue to battle local insurgents.

Detained Muslim girls released in US
The FBI released two teenage Muslim girls detained by it six weeks ago amid apprehensions that they were potential recruits for a suicide bomb plot that never materialized. The lawyers for the girls said on Saturday that the girls should not have been detained without any proper investigation.

Cuba 'plane bomber' was CIA agent
Declassified US government documents show that a man suspected of involvement in the bombing of a Cuban passenger plane worked for the CIA.

One standard for terrorists
In the name of credibility, consistency and justice for the 73 victims, Luis Posada Carriles, the prime suspect in the 1976 bombing of a Cuban airliner, should not be granted political asylum in the United States, which he is thought to have entered illegally six weeks ago. Instead, he should be arrested and extradited for trial, not only for the airliner attack, but also for other terrorist attacks that he has acknowledged planning, including one in 1997 that killed an Italian businessman visiting Havana.

President Jean-Bertrand Aristide Speaks From Exile
JEAN-BERTRAND ARISTIDE: I think it's -- mobilization throughout the world, if I can put it this way, in the sense that we need many, many voices to equal the voices of Haiti. The people of Haiti want life and not death. They want peace and not violence. They want democracy and not repression. So Prime Minister Yvon Neptune and So Ann and hundreds of others who are in jail, they all need that mobilization. Whoever can say something, whoever can do something, please do it, because the Haitian people right now are waiting for your help.

Rumsfeld Meets Saddam: Transcript of Conversation
The Egyptian magazine al-Usbu', May 2, 2005, published the text of a conversation between Saddam Hussein and US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, which is said to have taken place on Rumsfeld's trip to Baghdad in late April. Rumsfeld, according to the al Usbu' report, visited Saddam Hussein in prison. Al-Usbu' reports that "informed political sources had disclosed the details of the meeting," of which we provide the transcript, translated from the Arabic.

Geronimo, Cochise and Osama bin Laden

Report links Alaska rail to military

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