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Marc Carnegie
Musharraf calls UK for help on Bhutto probe
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf called for help from British police in probing the murder of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto as he sought to dampen public anger on Thursday…
Uganda: ‘It’s a very, very major crisis’
The United Nations’s top emergency relief official on Tuesday pressed the Security Council to take on the crisis in northern Uganda, where a brutal rebellion against the…
Zim re-elected to UN human rights commission
Zimbabwe was re-elected on Wednesday to the United Nations human rights commission, a controversial body that UN Secretary General Kofi Annan wants to abolish this year. Four…
Jazz history lesson: Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker
Saxophonist Charlie Parker, who helped invent the modern jazz style of be-bop, was also one of jazz’s first existential heroes — a famously self-destructive genius who died at…
UN council mulls Sudan sanctions
The United Nations Security Council was on Monday mulling a United States resolution to impose sanctions on the militias in Sudan’s Darfur region, with opposition strong despite…