VOA News-Haitian-born singer Wyclef Jean is criticizing Haiti's election officials for blocking his application to run for president in November elections. Jean says the ruling discriminates against Haitians who have lived outside the country.
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VOANews-North Korea's leader appears to have begun a trip to China, at the same time that former U.S. President Jimmy Carter is in Pyongyang to secure the release of an imprisoned American. And China's top envoy on Korean issues is in Seoul in a bid to restart talks on the North's nuclear programs.South Korean government officials said Thursday North Korea's leader apparently headed by train for the Chinese border. Officials in Seoul spoke on the condition that they not be identified.
IPS-Africa is heading towards a bright economic future, according to a new book co-authored by the former director of the French state agency for economic cooperation and released recently in Paris.In the book "Le temps de l'Afrique" ("The African Age"), Jean-Michel Severino, until last April director of the French state agency for economic cooperation, and his co-author Olivier Ray argue that sub-Saharan Africa has started the new millennium under far better economic and social circumstances than generally assumed.
IPS-United Nations — U.N. member states and regional organisations debated the question of how Somali pirates should be prosecuted in a Security Council meeting Wednesday, following a report submitted last month by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon outlining seven possible legal options.Ban's 54-page report details the advantages and disadvantages of the options, which involve supporting existing domestic courts, creating a new chamber within national courts, or establishing entirely new tribunals either regional or international in character to try suspects charged with piracy.
BusinessDay-Johannesburg — PRESIDENT Jacob Zuma was confident SA had secured more favourable trade concessions from China, on the second day of his three-day visit to the country.China is SA's largest country-to- country trade partner, and the second-biggest economy in the world. It is also the biggest investor in African infrastructure .The countries signed four agreements in various fields of specialisation , Mr Zuma said yesterday.
By RFI:Chilean officials Wednesday broke the news to a group of trapped miners that they could be stuck underground for months before being rescued."We were able to tell them ... they would not be rescued before the Fiestas Patrias [Chile's 18 September Independence Day celebrations], and that we hoped to get them out before Christmas," Health Minister Jaime Manalich said.
By RFI:Greece has been paying pensions to hundreds of dead people for many years, the government revealed Wednesday.Ministers uncovered the waste as part of an austerity drive which aims to cut a public deficit which plunged the country into crisis earlier this year.Of 500 pensioners registered as being over 110 years old, 300 were actually dead, official figures show.“We found one pension was paid to a person who died in 1999,” deputy labour minister George Koutroumanis told a press conference. “We found people drawing a pension though they died five to seven years ago.”
By RFI:An Afghan trainee police officer shot dead two Spanish police and an interpreter in north-eastern Afghanistan Wednesday. Local people tried to storm the base after the trainee himself was killed.The two members of Spain’s paramilitary Guardia Civil were training police at Qalaw-i-Naw base in Badghis province, Spain’s Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba told Cadena Sur radio. The interpreter was also Spanish, he said.Security forces then shot dead the assailant.
AP-BEIJING – A massive traffic jam in north China that stretches for dozens of miles and hit its 10-day mark on Tuesday stems from road construction in Beijing that won't be finished until the middle of next month, an official said.Bumper-to-bumper gridlock spanning for 60 miles (100 kilometers) with cars moving little more than a half-mile (one kilometer) a day at one point has improved since this weekend, said Zhang Minghai, director of Zhangjiakou city's Traffic Management Bureau general office.
Aljazeera-Pakistani officials will reportedly press the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to loosen the terms of a $10 billion loan in an effort to cope with the worst floods in the country's history.The two sides met in Washington DC on Monday, where they were set to discuss the flooding and the scheduled release of the final instalment of a $10.66 billion loan extended by the IMF in 2008.Lastest News
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