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.”
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 [...]
Africa took center stage at the G8 summit on Friday, with rich nations eager to show they will honor past aid pledges and approve a $15 billion farming program to help poor nations feed themselves.
After two days of talks focused on the economic crisis, trade and global warming, the final day of the meeting [...]
Chinese riot police broke up a small demonstration by Uighurs leaving Friday prayers in a Muslim Uighur neighborhood of Urumqi, arresting several who were taken away with hands above their heads.
A crowd of several hundred gathered near the White Mosque along with riot police with submachine guns as armored police vehicles blocked roads around [...]
The two rivals for power in Honduras started a dialogue through a mediator on Thursday, but there was no face-to-face meeting or breakthrough to solve the political crisis sparked by last month’s coup.
Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, and the man who replaced him after the June 28 coup, Roberto Micheletti, left behind teams in [...]
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