Dalai Lama “If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them. ”
Barack Obama “Those who stand up for justice are always on the right side of history.”
For too many Africans, “conflict is a part of life,” President Obama told Ghana’s Parliament on Saturday.
“There are wars over land and wars over resources. And it is still far too easy for those without conscience to manipulate whole communities into fighting among faiths and tribes,” Obama said.
“These conflicts are a millstone around Africa’s neck. [...]
The rivals for power in Honduras agreed on Friday to hold more talks to seek a solution to the crisis created by last month’s coup, keeping alive hopes that dialogue would prevail over confrontation.
The talks’ mediator, Costa Rican President Oscar Arias, made the announcement after chairing a first round of discussions between teams representing [...]
Britain said on Friday eight soldiers had been killed in Afghanistan, its worst death toll in a 24-hour period, and Prime Minister Gordon Brown said troops faced a “very hard summer” battling insurgents.
Five troops on foot patrol were killed by two blasts, the highest death toll in a single attack.
Britain has now lost 184 [...]
U.S. President Barack Obama assured Africa on Saturday that it would not be sidelined from world affairs and hailed democratic Ghana as a model for other African countries.
The visit to Ghana is Obama’s first to sub-Saharan Africa since taking office as the first black U.S. president. He arrived from the summit of G8 leaders [...]
NASA prepared to launch space shuttle Endeavour to the International Space Station on Saturday to deliver a Japanese porch and spare parts needed to keep the outpost going after the shuttle fleet’s retirement next year.
The space agency planned to begin fueling the ship just after 10 a.m. (3 p.m. British time) for liftoff from [...]
Iran is preparing a new package of “political, security and international” issues to put to the West, its foreign minister said Saturday.
“The package can be a good basis for talks with the West. The package will contain Iran’s stances on political, security and international issues,” Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki told a news conference.
French President [...]
G8 leaders pledged $20 billion in aid on Friday to help poor nations feed themselves, surpassing expectations of a summit that made little ground on climate change and may spell the end of the G8 itself.
U.S. President Barack Obama and the summit’s Italian host Silvio Berlusconi reflected growing consensus that the Group of Eight [...]
China has raised the death toll from ethnic rioting in its far west to 184 and detailed for the first time the ethnicity of those killed, while tension lingered over the city at the center of the strife.
The official Xinhua news agency said on Saturday that 137 of those killed in the mayhem on [...]
Somalia’s hard-line Islamist rebels beheaded seven people on Friday for being “Christians” and “spies” in the latest implementation of strict Sharia law by the al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab movement, witnesses said.
Though al-Shabaab has carried out such punishments before in regions it controled, the beheadings on Friday were thought to be their largest number of executions at one [...]
About 1,400 people are dying every week in a camp set up in Sri Lanka to detain Tamil refugees from the country’s civil war, a British newspaper reports.
Quoting senior international aid sources, The Times reported on Friday that the death toll at the Menik Farm internment will add to concerns that the Sri Lankan government [...]
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