By Peter Graff LONDON- The West is to blame for the resurgence of the Taliban because it sent too few troops to Afghanistan, but an expanding NATO peace force will [...]
Archive | August, 2004
Rare Shakespeare First Folio fetches $5.2 mln
LONDON- A rare mint condition First Folio edition of William Shakespeare’s plays fetched 2.8 million pounds ($5.2 million) at an auction on Thursday. The result at Sotheby’s in London was [...]
Israel widens Lebanon reprisals, 22 civilians die
By Nadim Ladki BEIRUT- Israel struck Beirut airport and Hizbollah’s television station on Thursday and killed 22 civilians in raids on south Lebanon, intensifying its reprisals after Hizbollah captured two [...]
Bush tries out new media strategy in Chicago
By Steve Holland CHICAGO- President George W. Bush, seeking to improve his standing among Americans and bolster Republican chances in November elections, argues his causes in the U.S. Midwest on [...]
Most Israelis want Hamas leaders assassinated-poll
JERUSALEM- The vast majority of Israelis believe the Jewish state should assassinate leaders of the governing Palestinian movement Hamas in response to the crisis in Gaza, a newspaper poll published [...]
Israel kills 13 in Gaza as fighting intensifies
By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Luke Baker BEIT LAHIYA- Israeli forces on an offensive in Gaza killed 13 Palestinians in air strikes and clashes with militants on Thursday in the worst [...]
In S.Africa first, soap diva to get full-blown AIDS
By Andrew Quinn JOHANNESBURG- Like soap opera divas around the world, Nandipha Matabane has had a tumultuous life of tragedy and triumph. Nandipha, a character on the South African soap [...]
S.Africa web site offers gruesome glimpse of crime
JOHANNESBURG- South Africans outraged at high levels of violent crime launched a new Web site on Thursday dedicated to giving visitors “a preview of death and violence” in the country [...]
Bible commentary for Africa tackles HIV, witchcraft
By Rebecca Harrison JOHANNESBURG- African scholars have launched a pioneering Bible commentary which tackles issues like female circumcision, HIV/AIDS and ethnic violence and is meant to make the scriptures more [...]
Rich folks get more sleep – blacks and men get less
By Anne Harding NEW YORK – In a study of sleep characteristics in 669 adults in Chicago who were compared by sex and race, investigators found that blacks got less [...]
