South Africa's ruling party leader, Jacob Zuma, is outraged by a political cartoon that ran over the weekend portraying him as a rapist. The cartoon, by well-known South African political cartoonist Jonathan...
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"ROME (AP) - Remnants of the first known surviving Roman throne have been discovered in the lava and ash that buried the city of Herculaneum in the first century, archaeologists said Tuesday.
Decorated with ivory...
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"The police would not stop the investigation on the November-3 arsons and lootings following the death of Adjunct Commissioner Yance Ikomouw in Timika, capital of Mimika district, Papua province, the local police chief has said.
"We will continue the investigation as it is a...
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Port Moresby (ANTARA News) - Papua New Guinea`s parliament elected
veteran leader Michael Somare as Prime Minister for a second
consecutive five-year term on Monday.
A coalition of parties led by Somare`s National Alliance party secured
86 votes in the 109-seat...
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"It was on this day in 1951 that the trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg began. They were a middle-aged, married Jewish couple, charged with conspiracy to commit espionage. Julius Rosenberg was the leader of a...
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"Kenya has Friday sealed off its border with Somalia following intensified fighting in that country.
Kenyan security agents are on high alert along stretches...
Nelson Mandela of South Africa is already, in that vague secular sense, 'canonised', a 'saint' of the late 20th century. Martyn Drakard at MercatorNet reminds us about a man whose causa is actually opened by the archbishop of Dar-es-Salaam, Cardinal Polycarp Pengo:...
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"His lawyer once represented Prince Charles. Her lawyer squared off for Princess Diana.
Small wonder Britain's newspapers are comparing the divorce case of Paul McCartney and Heather Mills McCartney to the 1996...
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