Barack Obama faces a divided legislature, with the Republicans in control of the House of Representatives.
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/ 13 December 2010
Senior Democrats dismayed as US president accedes to Republican demands.
A symbolic funeral held to give hurricane victims closure has highlighted the ongoing trauma faced by those who fled and those who have returned.
Her fierce questions shocked White House staff; Castro refused to answer her. And now veteran reporter Helen Thomas has had to quit.
Turkey’s demands for international inquiry blocked at UN meeting.
Secret South African documents reveal that Israel offered to sell nuclear warheads to the apartheid regime.
Museum rivalry pitches the daughter of a murdered mobster against the city mayor who represented his suspected killer, writes <b>Chris McGreal</b>.
Richard Goldstone, the former war crimes prosecutor, is being forced to meet South African Jewish leaders to hear of their anger over a UN report.
Wikileaks has revealed a video showing US air crews shooting down Iraqi civilians.
Terre’Blanche was no joke, even if he was not the threat to the transition to majority rule that he imagined himself to be.
Some might say Jon Brumit overpaid when he stumped up $100 for a whole house — there are now homes to be had for a single dollar.
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/ 15 January 2010
The US president has pledged to improve the lives of the country’s one million Native Americans. But he faces an enormous challenge.
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/ 30 October 2009
A judge will decide who owns relics from the 1912 wreck, but there are fears that tourist dives are accelerating the liner’s decay.
A US millionaire’s charity is building Jewish homes in the most sensitive Palestinian territory. Chris McGreal reports.
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/ 17 January 2009
Israel is facing growing demands from senior United Nations officials and human rights groups for an international war crimes investigation in Gaza.
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/ 18 December 2008
Health workers in Zimbabwe are warning that international alarm over the spreading cholera emergency is overshadowing the Aids crisis.
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/ 15 September 2008
For Thabo Mbeki, it could have been the day that restored a reputation battered by perverse policies on HIV/Aids and Machiavellian strategies.
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/ 14 September 2008
The power-sharing deal Robert Mugabe is expected to sign on Monday with his arch-rival, Morgan Tsvangirai, will protect him from prosecution.
The numbers ceased to mean much to Sarah Chekani about the time inflation in Zimbabwe surged past 50 000% late last year. It has doubled again since then, but that hardly matters to Chekani and others like her who survive in an orbit touched only fleetingly by cash or the spiralling exchange rate.
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/ 19 November 2007
"This thing of rape," said Colonel Edmond Ngarambe, shifting uneasily on his wooden bench high in the mountains of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, "I can’t deny that happens. We are human beings. But it’s not just us. The Mai Mai, the government soldiers who are not paid, the Rastas do the same thing. And some people sent by our enemies do it to cause anger against us."
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/ 23 November 2006
President Robert Mugabe’s fight against corruption is closing in on his closest confidants. The 82-year-old leader is in a quandary and is unwilling to pass a routine political directive for the arrest and prosecution of Zanu-PF officials allegedly involved in illegal foreign currency dealings.
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/ 30 October 2006
Africa’s political leaders are being offered a $5-million prize and a stipend for life if they do not plunder the national coffers or rig elections. Nelson Mandela, Tony Blair and Bill Clinton are backing the initiative to be formally launched in London this week by a foundation started by a Sudanese-born telecom tycoon, Mo Ibrahim.
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/ 10 September 2004
Israel’s Agriculture Minister, Israel Katz, has announced plans for further expansion of Jewish settlements in the Jordan valley by expropriating 3 200ha of land. Katz’s proposal, follows revelations that the government plans to build homes for thousands more settlers on the West Bank, further entrenching its control even while it pulls out of the Gaza Strip.
Former president Nelson Mandela is to write a second, and potentially more controversial, autobiography.
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/ 26 January 2001
Just about the only people not making money out of the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo are its long-suffering citizens.
As he turned toward the polling station, Mandela was asked how he was gong to vote. He smiled broadly. "I’ve been agonising over that question…".