The United States already buys large amounts of oil from Africa, but both places would benefit from increased trade in an array of other goods, especially farm products, US officials say. US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Wednesday addressed African producers attending a trade conference in Dakar, Senegal.
Mention the word ”Ashes” to any cricket fan and they know instantly you are talking about a Test contest between England and Australia. But cricket’s oldest rivals had been playing each other for five years before the idea of the Ashes was born.
Ethiopia’s two main opposition groups said on Tuesday that probes into alleged mass fraud in disputed May elections had been a ”total failure” and accused the government of harrassing witnesses. The Coalition for Unity and Democracy and the United Ethiopian Democratic Forces said that one witness was killed and 11 others arrested after testifying before a panel set up by the national election board.
The world’s wealthiest nations are not wrong in being concerned about corrupt African leaders, Kenyan Nobel Peace laureate Wangari Mathaai said in Johannesburg on Tuesday. Mathaai was the guest speaker at the annual Nelson Mandela Lecture, with an audience that included Mandela, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and former United States president Bill Clinton.
Hewlett-Packard on Tuesday announced plans to cut 14 500 jobs over the next 18 months, representing 10% of the struggling company’s worldwide workforce. The plans were the first significant move by Mark Hurd, who was hired after Carly Fiorina was ousted as chief executive in February.
Internet giant Yahoo said on Tuesday its second-quarter profit grew sixfold from a year ago to -million, lifted by increased sales across a broad range of services and a one-time gain. That compared with a net profit of -million in the same period a year ago.
United States President George Bush on Tuesday night nominated an appeals court judge, John Roberts, as the new member of the supreme court, describing the choice as ”one of the most consequential decisions a president makes”. Democratic senators vowed to question him closely in the coming confirmation hearings.
They are the scourge of motorists across the former Soviet Union, known for accusing drivers of fictitious crimes and demanding a bribe to clear them. But now Ukraine has sacked all of its 23 000 traffic police. The President, Viktor Yushchenko, said they had ”discredited themselves” and would cease to exist.
Pakistan on Tuesday launched a series of sweeping arrests against Islamist militants across the country, in a move explicitly linked to the investigation of the 7/7 bomb attacks in London, officials said. Security officers detained at least 25 people in raids in several major cities including Faisalabad, Multan and Dera Ghazi Khan.
The United States President, George Bush, has agreed to aid India’s civilian nuclear power programme, an unexpected decision that reverses three decades of American policies designed to deter nations from developing nuclear weapons. The agreement is the first exception to the international bar on nuclear assistance to any country that does not accept monitoring of all of its nuclear facilities.