The time for quiet diplomacy in Zimbabwe is over and must be brought to an end, a senior official in the country’s opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) said on Friday. Speaking during a visit to Berlin, the MDC’s legal secretary David Coltart said the policy, practiced notably by South Africa, had failed.
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/ 16 February 2004
Scientists in Germany on Monday launched the country’s first test of an HIV vaccine, a yearlong programme that will involve up to 50 volunteers and is backed by the New York-based International Aids Vaccine Initiative. An estimated 30 HIV vaccine tests are already under way worldwide.
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/ 12 December 2003
Wednesday’s poll has ensured that Switzerland is being run by the most right-wing government in its post-war history, after Christoph Blocher, the controversial anti-immigrant populist, won a seat in the country’s Cabinet.
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/ 17 October 2003
Germany’s embattled leader, Gerhard Schröder, this week offered concessions to left-wing rebels within his own party ahead of a crunch vote on Friday October 17 that could lead to his resignation and the collapse of his government.
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/ 25 September 2003
Tanzanian President Benjamin Mkapa said on Thursday that reviewing and rating how African leaders perform should be left to fellow Africans. He said rating the performance of African leaders would only work if it was guided by Africans who knew the conditions and sensitivities of the continent.
Fourteen European hostages released by their captors have told a German minister they are ”doing well”, after an ordeal of more than five months in the Sahara desert, German and Dutch media reported on Tuesday.
Negotiations between the German government and a radical Islamic group holding 14 Europeans hostage in northern Mali have been interrupted, the German news network NTV reported on Monday.
A suspected Islamic group which abducted 14 European tourists in the Sahara desert is demanding a ransom of ,2-million for each hostage, German television station N-TV reported on Friday.
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi showed his true colours when he likened a German member of the European Parliament to a lowly Nazi concentration camp guard, an outraged European press charged on Thursday.
Whale and dolphin meat is being sold in pet food in Japan, thus negating Tokyo’s controversial claim that it needs more whale meat, three environmental groups charged on Wednesday.
US author Susan Sontag was awarded the German book trade’s prestigious Peace Prize on Tuesday for her role as an ”intellectual ambassador” between the United States and Europe and for her human rights activism.
South Africa is unlikely to be admitted this week to an international body charged with supervising the fight against money laundering, a German government source said on Tuesday.
A deeply divided International Whaling Commission voted to beef up efforts to protect whales, a step greeted as a historic shift by conservation groups but denounced by Japan and its pro-whaling allies.
The world whaling body opened its annual meeting on Monday with a call by anti-whaling nations to beef up its conservation agenda and strengthen the international ban on the controversial practice.
With unemployment figures at 4,7-million, the country finally appears to be heading for radical reforms. What has led to the alteration of course that is apparently imminent is not a change of mind, but a change of circumstances.
The leaders of Germany and France this week highlighted the gap separating Britain and the United States from some of their closest allies on policy towards Iraq, saying they could not support an attack without a United Nations mandate.
The Greens saved Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder in Sunday’s general election and they did it by focusing on their biggest asset — Joschka Fischer, Germany’s most popular politician.
‘We’ll take your child if no one else will. Without asking your name, without asking questions, without causing you pain.’