Salva Kiir, the leader of south Sudan's former rebel group the SPLM, has been sworn in as the first elected president of the semi-autonomous southern region.
It follows his landslide victory in...
Iran Renews Offer To Help On US Oil Spill
The National Iranian Drilling Company (NIDC) has renewed its offer to assist the US in reining in an ecologically disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of...
Revealed: how Israel offered to sell South Africa nuclear weapons
Exclusive: Secret apartheid-era papers give first official evidence of Israeli nuclear weapons
Chris McGreal in Washington...
Wakuu kuna juhudi kubwa zinafanywa na baadhi ya nchi wanachama wa EAC ambazo zinajua hazina vivutio vya kutosha kama Tanzania soko la utalii liwe moja EAC single tourist destination.
Nimejaribu...
FOCUSED: Gen. Kagame makes a point to Mr Kalinaki in Gabiro, Eastern Rwanda.
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Kagame on accountability
In addressing the problems of...
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CAIRO (AFP) – Egypt is refusing to relinquish a drop of its legal right to the lion's share of Nile river water, despite demands from...
Vanunu was jailed in 1986 for disclosing the inner workings of Israel's Dimona nuclear plant [AFP]
Mordechai Vanunu, the Israeli former nuclear technician who gained fame for serving 18 years...
Synthetic life has been created in the laboratory in a feat of ingenuity that pushes the boundaries of humanitys ability to manipulate the natural world.
Craig Venter, the biologist who led...
it's a question I've been asking myself for a while. If you look at all American presidents(correct me if I'm wrong) and indeed presidential candidates you find the most if not entirely all of...
India plane crash in Mangalore leaves nearly 160 dead
Nearly 160 people are feared dead after an airliner crashed while landing near the southern Indian city of Mangalore.
Indian officials...
AP – Yoon Duk-yong, right, co-head of the team investigating the sinking of the South Korean warship Cheonan, …
By JEAN H. LEE, Associated Press Writer
SEOUL, South Korea...
Deportation order saves stranded foreigners
Some of the 19 disabled Tanzanians who were arraigned in a Nyeri court for being in Kenya illegally, on Friday
By Francis Ngige
A Nyeri...
AP – Riot police officers try to move people away from a sit-down protest on a main street after the end of
ATHENS, Greece – More than 20,000 protesters marched through Athens to...
ISLAMABAD - The Pakistani government blocked access to YouTube on Thursday because of "sacrilegious" content in a growing Internet crackdown against sites deemed offensive to the country's...
More evidence N.Korea behind ship sinking: reports
Experts investigating the sinking of a South Korean warship have found a torpedo fragment with a serial number written in North Korean style...
Thailand PM Abhisit in pledge to end Bangkok protest
Thailand's PM Abhisit Vejjajiva has said troops will "push forward" with an operation to end an anti-government protest in the...
Kenyas largest telecoms operator Safaricom on Tuesday deepened its foray into the financial services market with the launch of a mobile money product that will allow users of its M-Pesa service...