The film Disgrace by Australian director Steve Jacobs on Friday won the grand prize in the New Talent Competition at the Taipei Film Festival.Last Updated ( Wednesday, 08 July 2009 06:53 )
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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will lead a large trade delegation next week on visits to four African countries, including the continent's biggest oil producers, Namibian media reports said Thursday.
A man linked to the murder of African National Congress leader Chris Hani is playing a key role in the far-right British National Party's bid to win a first European seat, a report said Saturday.
Ireland's major newspaper publisher, Independent News & Media, warned Thursday it is likely to default on a €200 million (US265 million) debt due for repayment next month and is seeking a possible bailout from its top two shareholders.
Fidel Castro will personally receive his Ubuntu Award that was bestowed on him by the National Heritage Council (NHC) of South Africa on 24 September 2008 in Mapungubwe. He could not travel to South Africa (SA) to receive this prestigious award because of his state of health. The Acting Ambassador at the time, Enrique Orta, accepted the award and confirmed that Ubuntu is similar to the belief that has kept Cubans together for many centuries.
By Denise Lavoie
South Africa must fight the threat of a return to protectionism when it takes its seat at the G20 summit, Efficient Group economist Dawie Roodt said on Tuesday.
By Jay Root
Another piece of space junk is drifting toward the international space station just as the space shuttle is headed that way.
The world is on the verge of another Great Depression of the 1930s if past mistakes are repeated, financial commentator and CEO of Moneyweb Holdings Alec Hogg said on Thursday.
Soldiers opened fire on anti-government protesters Saturday near the presidential palace in Madagascar's capital, and radio stations reported some 30 people were killed in a dramatic escalation of a confrontation between the established order and a young politician determined to shake up this Indian Ocean island.
Cuban President Raul Castro on Thursday kicked off a state visit to oil-rich Angola, a longtime ally of the Communist island, where he was due to hold talks with President Jose Eduardo dos Santos.Last Updated ( Friday, 06 February 2009 01:35 )
Read more...A move to oust Nkunda was launched on Monday by chief of staff Bosco
Ntaganda, but their relative positions remained unchanged ahead of
Wednesday's emergency meeting of the rebels' high command.
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Read more...The corruption-tainted governor of Illinois was expected to appoint a replacement Tuesday to the senate seat of president-elect Barack Obama, a source close to the governor told AFP.
A defiant Rod Blagojevich, who is accused of trying to sell the seat to the highest bidder, was expected to name former Illinois attorney general Roland Burris, 71, to the seat, the source said on condition of
anonymity.
Last Updated ( Saturday, 14 February 2009 23:24 )
Read more...Facebook is facing an online protest after removing pictures of breastfeeding mothers found to be overly revealing from the pages of members of the social network.
A Facebook group entitled "Hey, Facebook, breastfeeding is not obscene!" has attracted nearly 85,000 members as of Tuesday and a handful of activists held a rally outside its California headquarters over the weekend.
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Read more...Foreign ministers of the European Union will hold an urgent meeting on Tuesday in Paris on the escalating violence in the Gaza Strip, the French foreign ministry announced.
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Read more...Frontex deputy executive director Gil Arias Fernandez, speaking in Rome on Thursday, also singled out what he said was lack of co-operation by Libya in attempts by the EU to curb illegal immigration across the Mediterranean Sea.
Last Updated ( Saturday, 14 February 2009 23:36 )
Read more...Rebels have pulled out of a border town in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo that they captured last week but remain close by as peacekeepers reinforce their presence in the region, the UN said Monday.
Forces loyal to Tutsi rebel leader Laurent Nkunda withdrew Sunday from Ishasa, located some 130 kilometres (81 miles) from Goma, the capital of eastern Nord-Kivu province, according to Jean-Paul Dietrich, spokesman for the UN's peacekeeping mission MONUC.
Last Updated ( Saturday, 14 February 2009 23:38 )
Read more...The United States has told Pakistan it expects nothing short of complete cooperation in investigations into the terrorist rampage in nuclear rival India, and Pakistan's response will be a test of the will of the new civilian government, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Monday.
"What we are emphasizing to the Pakistani government is the need to follow the evidence wherever it leads," Rice said. "I don't want to jump to any conclusions myself on this, but I do think that this is a time for complete, absolute, total transparency and cooperation and that's what we expect."
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