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Mugabe must work with MDC - Tsvangirai
PARIS - Zimbabwe's opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai warned President Robert Mugabe on Tuesday not to form a government without him, vowing to use his majority in parliament to render such a regime unworkable.
White teenage racist admits South Africa killing spree
JOHANNESBURG - A white teenager has pleaded guilty to murdering four black South Africans in a racially motivated shooting spree. In January, Johan Nel, 18, took an ageing .303 BSA bolt-action rifle and more than 100 rounds on ammunition to Skierlik, a squatter camp near his home Swartruggens, in North-West province....
Vauxhall/Opel Insignia wins 2009 Car of the Year
Vauxhall's new Insignia family car has been voted 2009 European Car of the Year by a one-point margin from Ford's Fiesta. The Vauxhall/Opel scored 321 points against the Fiesta's 320, both far in front of the third-placed car, Volkswagen's Golf which scored 223 points....
World economies may suffer for years: SA Finance Minister
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - The impact of the global financial crisis will not disappear soon and may be felt by world economies for years to come, South African Finance Minister Trevor Manuel said on Monday....GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS - More countries needing help: World Bank Boss
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In recent weeks, more developing countries are turning to the World Bank to help ease the effects of the global credit squeeze, World Bank President Robert Zoellick said on Tuesday, a sign that a larger number of countries are being hit by the financial crisis....
UN, African leaders meet to tackle Congo crisis
NAIROBI (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon met African leaders at a summit in Kenya on Friday to try and end the conflict in the east of Democratic Republic of Congo before it engulfs the whole region....
Historic win sparks joy in Obama's Kenyan village
KOGELO, Kenya (Reuters) - Kenyans in Barack Obama's ancestral homeland sang and danced with joy on Wednesday as the Illinois senator they see as one of their own became the first black U.S. president....
Tearful Obama pays tribute to grandmother
WASHINGTON - Barack Obama was told yesterday that his grandmother, who helped to bring him up through his teenage years, had died of cancer 24 hours before an election in which he may be elected president....
Hope and prayer in Obama's ancestral Kenya village
KISUMU, Kenya (Reuters) - Kenyans in Barack Obama's ancestral homeland prayed for victory on Tuesday as he aimed to become the first African-American president of the United States....
Obama's grandmother dies of cancer in Hawaii
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's grandmother died of cancer, he said in a statement on Monday, a little more than a week after he interrupted the White House campaign to say goodbye to her in Hawaii....
Rebel DRC leader objects to Chinese presents in the country
Goma - The rebel general besieging the DRC's eastern provincial capital wants direct negotiations with the government about security and his objections to a $5-billion (about R50-billion) deal that gives China access to the region's mineral resources....
Are polls accurate in presidential race?
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With the U.S. presidential election less than a week away, Democrat Barack Obama holds a steady lead over rival Republican John McCain in opinion polls, leading many pundits to say McCain is effectively finished....
Nigerian men arrested for defrauding Ethiopian Central Bank
Addis Ababa - Ethiopia's central bank, the National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE), said on Tuesday three Nigerians were being detained after forging the governor's signature to try to steal about R150-million from its international account. ...
Illegal immigrants head for UK in a Bentley
LONDON - An audacious bid by four illegal immigrants to enter Britain hidden in a luxury car has ended in failure after they were intercepted by immigration officers, the Home Office said on Tuesday....
Africa calls summit to respond to financial crisis
BRAZZAVILLE - The African Union said on Monday it would hold a summit next month on the continent's response to the global financial crisis....
White supremacist 'plot' to assassinate Barack Obama foiled
A neo-Nazi plot to assassinate Barack Obama has been uncovered days before the American presidential election. US government agents say they have thwarted a plan by two conspirators to kill the White House front-runner and shoot or decapitate 102 black people. ...
IMF may need to "print money" as crisis spreads
The International Monetary Fund may soon lack the money to bail out an ever growing list of countries crumbling across Eastern Europe, Latin America, Africa, and parts of Asia, raising concerns that it will have to tap taxpayers in Western countries for a capital infusion or resort to the nuclear option of printing its own money. ...
SOUTH AFRICA: Wealth gap becoming a chasm
JOHANNESBURG, (IRIN) - Despite the dismantling of apartheid in the early 1990s, and significant annual economic growth over the past 10 years, South African cities have the highest levels of inequality in the world, according to the UN Habitat's latest State of the World's Cities report. ...
Kenyans in U.S. Involved in Obama Campaign
JERSEY CITY - It looks like a typical storefront in a poor and black dominated part of any large city in the US. It is in a tough neighbourhood of Jersey City--and Jersey City is tough by American standards--and flanked by bars, liquor stores and other enterprises probably dealing in more disreputable activities....
UK economy plunges into a recession
LONDON - Sterling plunged seven cents against the dollar and the FTSE tumbled 5pc after official figures confirmed that Britain is on its way to its first recession since the early 1990s. UK gross domestic product fell by 0.5 per cent, the first contraction since the second quarter of 1992, and the biggest drop since the fourth quarter of 1990. Economists had expected a drop of 0.2 per cent. ...
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