By Peter Heinlein New York 26 July 2006 The U.N. Security Council is debating a statement condemning the Israeli attack on a U.N. observer post in Lebanon. China urged the Security Council to issue a strong condemnation of the Israeli attack that ki
By Benjamin Sand Irbil, Iraq 17 October 2006 Saddam Hussein adjusts his headphones as he listens to witness testimony during his trial in Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone, October 17, 2006 The genocide trial of former Iraqi leader Saddam Husse
By Stefan Bos Budapest 18 March 2006 Slobodan Milosevic's long time secretary Mirjana Dragojevic mourns on the marker of his grave Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, who died in his cell in
By Al Pessin Washington 04 April 2006 Former U.S. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, who died last week at the age of 88, was buried Tuesday at Arlington National Cemetery, just outside Washington.
By Jim Randle Irbil, Iraq 08 October 2006 Saddam Hussein's stormy trial on genocide charges resumes Monday, more than a week after he and his co-defendants were expelled from the courtroom. A separate case on mass murder charges re-convenes the foll
By Jim Randle Irbil, Iraq 25 September 2006 Saddam Hussein's stormy trial on genocide and other charges has resumed in Baghdad. The trial was in session just two hours before the former Iraqi leader was thrown out of court - again. ------- Former Ir
By Brian Padden Irbil, Iraq 21 August 2006 Saddam Hussein's second trial on charges of genocide is being watched closely in the northern Kurdish region, where Saddam's forces accused of killing more than 180,000 Kurds nearly two decades ago. What wa
By VOA News 21 August 2006 watch Trial report Saddam Hussein gestures during first day of trial, Monday Aug. 21, 2006 The second trial of ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein opened Monday in Baghdad on charges of genocide for a violent campaign again
By Richard Krantz Washington, D.C. 04 April 2006 watch Saddam Trial report Iraq's former leader Saddam Hussein faces new charges of genocide and crimes against humanity in the 1980s crackdown against
By Jim Randle Irbil, Iraq 22 September 2006 Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein argues with a judge (file photo) Some of the investigators who gathered evidence for Saddam Hussein's trial on genocide charges have doubts about the ability of Iraq's
By Nico Colombant Kinshasa 28 July 2006 Campaigning is ending in the Democratic Republic of Congo, amid tensions before Sunday's post-war election. It is the first open ballot in the country since just after independence in 1960. -------- Destructio
By Nico Colombant Kinshasa 26 October 2006 Former rebel leader and presidential candidate in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Jean-Pierre Bemba, has canceled a stadium rally, following violence in the capital city, Kinshasa. He is facing current pr
By Scott Bobb Johannesburg 27 October 2006 Election officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo are making final preparations before Sunday's presidential run-off election. Thousands of observers have deployed across the country to monitor the vot
By Nico Colombant Kinshasa 31 October 2006 Election officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo have denounced the announcement of speculative results, following Sunday's decisive second-round presidential election. They have called for patience a
By Naomi Schwarz Dakar 21 November 2006 U.N. peacekeepers and firefighters in the Democratic Republic of Congo have rushed to the Supreme Court to contain violence after clashes and a fire broke out. The court is considering a complaint of fraud by
By Nico Colombant Dakar 06 December 2006 Joseph Kabila reviews the troops at the start of his inaugural ceremony at the Presidential Palace in Kinshasa, 6 Dec. 2006 Thirty-five-year-old Joseph Kabila has been sworn-in as the newly elected post-war p
By Joe Bavier Kinshasa 29 December 2006 Joseph Kabila (file photo) A close adviser to Congolese President Joseph Kabila has won the top leadership position in the Democratic Republic of Congo's newly elected parliament. Joe Bavier is in the capital,
By Naomi Schwarz Dakar 06 December 2006 Ndiaye Diop lifts her daughter over trash in Pikine, 17 Oct 2006 In the developing world's fast-growing cities, formal systems for managing garbage are sometimes insufficient. In Senegal's capital, Dakar, tras
By Jordan Davis Dakar 26 December 2006 Senegalese fishermen say their catches are smaller because of fishing by foreign commercial vessels, 26 Dec. 2006 This year as many as 30,000 illegal migrants left West African shores for Spain's Canary Islands
By Jordan Davis Dakar 21 December 2006 Senegalese army officials say two soldiers were shot to death in an ambush in the southern Casamance region. For more than two decades, the area has seen sporadic violence involving separatist rebels and the na
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