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Seychelles leader urges climate pact to boost food security
Global warming is ”inextricably linked” to food security, Seychelles President James Michel said at the UN hunger summit on Monday.
Italy convicts 23 US agents in CIA kidnapping trial
An Italian judge convicted 23 United States and two Italian secret agents for the CIA’s kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric in 2003.
Pope backs beatification of Nazi-era predecessor
Pope Benedict XVI on Thursday backed the beatification of his controversial World War II predecessor Pius XII.
Food price crisis: ‘We cannot afford to fail’
United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon warned on Wednesday that failure was not an option in addressing the global food price crisis, and said an extra -billion to -billion per year…
Berlusconi set for comeback as Italian PM
Self-made billionaire Silvio Berslusconi looked set to secure a third term as Italian prime minister on Monday, with exit polls predicting a narrow win for his conservative…
Bob Dylan film should ‘wash over you like a dream’
I’m Not There, a biopic of folk icon Bob Dylan in which he is conspicuously absent but omnipresent, should ”wash over you like a dream”, the film’s director, Todd Haynes, said on…
Chastity’s a hard sell for the pope in Brazil
Visiting Pope Benedict XVI’s pronouncements in favour of sexual abstinence and against abortion are falling on deaf ears in Brazil, whose government hands out free condoms to…
Pope John Paul II on fast track to sainthood
The late pope John Paul II will move a step closer to sainthood next week when the Vatican receives proof of his miraculous intercession to cure a French nun of Parkinson’s…
Pope prays with Orthodox leader in Turkey
Pope Benedict XVI met with the head of the Greek Orthodox Church on Wednesday to pursue a key goal of his papacy: healing a rift between the two feuding branches of Christianity…
Pope follows conciliatory path
Pope Benedict XVI began a delicate mission to Turkey on Tuesday, trading conciliatory gestures with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan as both sought to calm the storm unleashed…
Italy faces post-election hangover
Italy nursed a post-election hangover on Wednesday, distressed that centre-left leader Romano Prodi failed to pull off a more emphatic victory and irritated by Prime Minister…
Court to shed light on Milosevic’s death
The United Nations war crimes tribunal was expected on Friday to reveal findings of a forensic analysis carried out to determine whether any poisons were present in Slobodan…
Milosevic wanted ‘one-way ticket to Moscow’
Former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic deliberately took a drug that neutralised the effects of his heart medicine, an expert who examined his blood said on Monday as the…
Thousands gather as pope is inaugurated
In a ceremony replete with solemnity and joy, Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday accepted the Fisherman’s Ring and woollen pallium symbolising his leadership of the Roman Catholic…
Plot talk on eve of Algerian vote
On the eve of what is shaping up as the most democratic presidential election to date to be held in Algeria, the press and three of the six candidates in the polls on Wednesday…