| Prosecutors to grill Charles Taylor at war crimes trial Taylor, 61, has denied all 11 charges of instigating murder, rape, mutilation, sexual slavery and conscripting child soldiers during the intertwined wars in Liberia and Sierra Leone in which ...[more] |
| FACTBOX: African warlord Charles Taylor on trial Here are some facts about Taylor: TAYLOR'S ROAD TO TRIAL: * Prosecutors from the U.N.-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone have said Taylor sought to control neighboring Sier ...[more] |
| TIMELINE: Major incidents along border of rival Koreas The following is a list of major border incidents since 1998, when the then South Korean President Kim Dae-jung articulated his "Sunshine Policy" of engagement with the North: Decembe ...[more] |
| Kidnapped Irish priest freed in Philippines Michael Sinnott, a 78-year-old Columban missionary who was snatched from the garden of a church on Oct 11, was handed over to government officials at a coastal village near Zamboanga City on ...[more] |
| India's food dilemma: high prices or shortages "I can't go back to the village after an M.B.A. Delhi has more money, better quality of life. The job is more satisfying, and you don't depend on the weather or prices set by the government," ...[more] |
| Is Africa selling out its farmers? Now, they find themselves working cheek by jowl with high-tech commercial farms stretching over thousands of hectares tilled by state-of-the-art tractors -- and owned and operated by foreigne ...[more] |
| Japan emperor says history vital as past haunts Asia Akihito also told a news conference marking Thursday's anniversary of his ascension that he thought his father, the late Emperor Hirohito, was reluctant about the war that was fought in his n ...[more] |
| Abbas resists U.S. pressure to resume peace talks Mahmoud Abbas also offered no clarity over his own political future by saying he did not want to talk again about his declared wish not to run for a second term as president of the Western-ba ...[more] |
| Kidnapped Irish priest freed in Philippines They said Michael Sinnott, a 78-year-old Columban priest who was snatched from the garden of a church on Oct 11, was handed over to police and government officials in the city of Zamboanga in ...[more] |
| Libya repatriates hundreds of rebels to Niger: report The fighters, who are from an MNJ faction of Niger's Tuareg rebels who launched an uprising in 2007, had laid down their weapons in Libya, a country that they used as a base but also acted as ...[more] |
| Blackout raises doubts over Brazil infrastructure The blackout on Tuesday night left tens of millions of people without power across most of the country's wealthy southeastern region, halting subways and snarling traffic in major cities like ...[more] |