African countries reject 'divisive' EU trade strategy
LISBON (Reuters): The African Union's top official said yesterday that the EU's strategy of pressing individual African regions and states to sign new trade deals was divisive and would hurt the continent's rural poor and its industry.In a speech at the...
All nations must join climate-change fight - Bali draft
NUSA DUA, Indonesia (Reuters): All nations must do more to fight climate change, and rich countries must make deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions to avoid the worst impacts, a draft proposal at United Nations talks said yesterday.The four-page draft,...
Reggae star Fakoly returns to Ivory Coast
ABIDJAN, West Africa (Reuters): African reggae star Tiken Jah Fakoly gave his first concert in his native Cte d'Ivoire since the start of a civil war five years ago, when his biting political lyrics drove him into exile.
US intel report on Iran was political - Bolton
BERLIN (Reuters): U.S. intelligence services were seeking to influence political policy-making with their assessment Iran had halted its nuclear arms programme in 2003, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton said.
Political stalemate in Sudan
KHARTOUM (Reuters): Sudan's government and former southern rebels are stuck in a political stalemate that could undermine security across the horn of Africa, a senior official said yesterday.Khartoum and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM)...
Al-Qaeda changing tactics in Iraq's Diyala - US general
BAGHDAD (Reuters): Al-Qaeda is changing tactics in Iraq's volatile Diyala province, the commander of U.S. forces in north Iraq said on Saturday, shortly after a suicide car bomb killed eight people in a northern oil refining town.
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