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China steps in to fund SA’s HIV fight
Chinese government says this isn’t an attempt to capture the South African government but an initiative meant to help South Africans
Donald Trump and the decline of US ‘soft power’
Soft power rests on attraction rather than coercion or payment. It co-opts people rather than coerces them.
US government workers home without pay as shutdown impasse drags on
Thousands of US federal employees were staying home without pay Monday after lawmakers failed to reach an agreement on ending a government shutdown
World leaders condemn Somalia bombing as death toll surges to 276
World leaders from the United States, Britain, Canada and France on Sunday strongly condemned the weekend suicide bombing.
Obama: I am not at all resigned to US govt shutdown
US President Barack Obama said he is not resigned to a US government shutdown taking place with a midnight deadline looming.
Bumpy ride for Obama
Jonthan Freedland looks back over a year that began with Barack Obama’s victory speech.
Obama quits Chicago church after race rows
Democrat Barack Obama said on Saturday he had quit his long-time Chicago church after months of controversy over racially laced pulpit rhetoric that still threatens to tarnish…
Oil rises above $129, near record high
Oil held above a barrel on Wednesday, within sight of the previous session’s record high, supported by a weak United States dollar and concern about supplies. Attention will…
Watching athletes go cold turkey
If the death of a racehorse is a sad event, then the death of a racehorse on live television is an obvious starting point for national catharsis. So it has been in the United…
Oil sets new record high of $122 a barrel
Oil set a new record high of a barrel on Tuesday, the latest spurt in an advance that has seen prices double over the past 12 months. Supply disruptions in Nigeria, where a…
Oil price crosses $120
Oil jumped more than to strike a record over a barrel on Monday on the weaker dollar and supply concerns from Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries members Nigeria…
Obama hunts for knock-out as fight turns ugly
It looked like yet another jubilant Barack Obama rally. The cavernous Indiana University sports hall in Bloomington jammed with thousands of supporters who stood in their seats…
Al-Jazeera cameraman returns from Guantánamo
A Sudanese cameraman with the al-Jazeera on Friday accused United States authorities of insulting Islamic symbols on his return home after six years of detention at Guantánamo…
Somali militants vow revenge after killing of Islamist chief
Somali Islamist militants on Friday promised to avenge the killing of a man said to be an al-Qaeda’s chief, warning citizens from countries they considered hostile to stay away…
Fatigue, racism threaten to knock Obama
Barack Obama was showing signs of campaign fatigue. Sitting on a picnic bench in a park on Pagoda Street, Indianapolis, in discussion with a group of 30 supporters, he told a…