JOHANNESBURG (AFP) - Twelve people have been killed in a wave of weekend violence against immigrants around Johannesburg, police said Sunday, with gangs of armed youths rampaging through poor areas in South Africa's economic capital.
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KABUL/PRAGUE -- An Afghan journalism student sentenced to death for allegedly insulting Islam has rejected the charges and told an appeals court in Kabul that he was tortured into a confession.
Alex Vatanka, a Washington-based expert for Jane's Information Group, talks with RFE/RL correspondent Ron Synovitz about rising tensions between Iran and the United States and its allies. Vatanka sees recent Iranian activities in the region as a reaction to outdated
Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden will shortly deliver a "very strong" message to Muslims, a website used by Islamist militants announced on Sunday."To the Islamic ummah (nation), soon, God willing, a very strong address from the lion of Islam, Sheikh
Myanmar is a member of the 10-nation regional bloc, but its ruling junta told visiting Thai Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej the country does not need help from international relief workers.
WASHINGTON (AFP) - A quarter of a century since the virus that causes AIDS was identified, a vaccine against the deadly disease remains frustratingly out of reach despite a well-funded global effort to find a cure.
MONTREAL (AFP) - Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) overwhelmingly approved new labor agreements with General Motors and Chrysler, rounding out the year's contracts with North America's Big Three auto producers, the union said Saturday.
KIEV (AFP) - The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development kicked off its annual meeting here on Sunday to discuss the impact of global economic turmoil and soaring food prices in the former Soviet bloc.
YANGON (AFP) - The UN's top disaster official headed Sunday to Myanmar, where the government is under mounting pressure to accept a full-scale relief operation for desperate cyclone survivors in need of immediate aid.
SHARM EL-SHEIKH (AFP) - US President George W. Bush said on Sunday that peace in the Middle East was possible by the end of the year but that it needed action on both sides and "tough sacrifices".
BANGKOK (AFP) - You won't find Plumpy'nut and BP-5 on your supermarket shelves. But the space-age foods have become one of the world's best weapons to fight hunger after disasters like the Myanmar cyclone.
JIANGYOU (AFP) - A powerful aftershock claimed more lives in China's southwest on Sunday, bringing new misery to the region and hampering relief efforts as the death toll from last week's quake shot up.
An Afghan hijacker who won the right to live in England is working at Heathrow Airport in London as a cleaner in the British Airways training center, the Daily Mail reported.Nazamuddin Mohammidy, 34, was among nine hijackers who in 2000
A three-country police sweep yesterday instigated by France netted 10 people suspected of financing terrorist movements - and threw the spotlight on Al Qaeda-linked militants with roots in Uzbekistan.Eight suspects were detained in France, one in Germany and one in
A department of homeland security and customs officer has been arrested by the san diego border corruption task force.Luis Francisco Alarid was arrested in the vicinity of Elrose and Dearborn without incident.Alarid was arrested pursuant to a federal arrest warrant
Police say gunmen kidnapped seven Mexican tourists in a rare attack on a heavily-patrolled, four-lane highway leading into the Pacific coast resort town of Acapulco.Police in Mexico's southern Guerrero state say the seven men were kidnapped Saturday about 100 kilometers
A Transportation Security Administration officer's review of airport security tapes located a missing 8-year-old girl who had been flown to Atlanta.Shemeka Greaves, a TSA officer at O'Hare International Airport, read a newspaper account about Janisia Grant, 8, who had disappeared
