Reports: Chinese weapons delivery arrives in Zimbabwe
Johannesburg - Weapons ordered from China for the Zimbabwe government arrived in Harare despite an international boycott, media reports said Saturday. According to South Africa's SAPA news agency, the government in Zimbabwe confirmed that 3 million r...
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EU Mediterranean patrol mission begins
Valletta, Malta - A European Union-led patrol mission against illegal immigration in the Mediterranean began Saturday morning. The Times of Malta quoted sources close to the Armed Forces of Malta as saying that the Frontex mission, to be called Nauti...
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Taiwan KMT leader to visit China amid signs of improved ties
Taipei - The leader of Taiwan's incoming ruling Chinese Nationalist Party or Kuomintang (KMT) has been invited to visit China later this month amid signs of improved Taipei-Beijing ties, the KMT said on Saturday. KMT Secretary General Wu Den-yih said...
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'Book of Berlin Wall' to retell lives of all 134 victims
Berlin - A Book of the Berlin Wall to be issued this year is to tell the life stories of all 134 persons killed on the mid-city fortifications operated by the Communists from 1961 to 1989, an historian said Saturday. The exact number has been dispu...
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Foreign aid arriving in Myanmar, but kept waiting - Update
Yangon - Myanmar is using helicopters, cars, trucks and small boats to transport relief supplies donated by foreign countries to the cyclone-ravaged Irrawaddy delta region, state-run newspapers in Yangon reported Saturday. Meanwhile there was no offi...
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Brown: Myanmar junta 'inhuman' in neglecting cyclone victims
London - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown accused the military regime in Myanmar of being inhuman in its refusal to accept international aid for the victims of Cyclone Nargis. The responsibility lies with the Burmese regime and they must be hel...
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Bush arrives in Egypt, meets with Mubarak - Update
Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt - US President George Bush arrived in Egypt on Saturday and met with Egyptian President Hosny Mubarak on the last leg of a largely ceremonial tour of the Middle East. In his meeting with Egyptian leaders in the Sharm el-Sheikh ...
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