On the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall..."Their paeans to universal freedom ring hollow, when they bear large responsibility for another wall constricting human freedom: the apartheid wall dividing the Palestinian West Bank".

Followed by about 500 men, they demand that the government purge anyone connected to the Taliban, war crimes or corruption. Many hold pictures of slain relatives.

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki, beset by criticism, will address parliament today about the recent spate of attacks. A government spokesman downplays the decision to demote Gen. Aboud Qanbar.

The ousted leader, holed up for months in the Brazilian Embassy, has refused to seek political asylum, saying he wants to travel as the legitimate president of Honduras.

Norway's recently announced 2010 whaling quota is their largest since choosing to defy the International Whaling Commission (IWC) moratorium - effectively a ban - on commercial whaling in 1993. But as Norway take hunting to new levels, so WSPA's defence

BEIJING -- Police in China have detained two gold miners accused of causing serious damage to one of the oldest sections of the Great Wall, state media said Thursday

Sudan's oil deposit have made it one of the fastest growing economies in Africa, yet 'violence, disease and malnutrition' continue to kill its people, Kadhija Sharife writes in this week's Pambuzaka News.

Delegates converged Sunday for the grand finale of two years of tough, sometimes bitter negotiations on a climate change treaty, as U.N. officials calculated that pledges offered in the last few weeks to reduce greenhouse gases put the world within.......

Delegates from 192 countries are gathering in the Danish capital Copenhagen for the opening of the long-awaited UN summit on climate change. The conference has been described by some scientists as the most important the world has ever seen.

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