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Hong Kong - Two bodyguards protecting Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe's student daughter in Hong Kong could be prosecuted for working in the city on tourist visas, officials confirmed Monday. The two bodyguards were found to be working on tourist ...
Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai left Thursday for North Africa, where analysts said he would meet Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi to maintain political pressure on President Robert Mugabe to honor their power-sharing accord.
President Hugo Chavez is praising Carlos the Jackal, the imprisoned Venezuelan once notorious for a series of Cold War-era bombings, assassinations and hostage dramas, saying he was a "revolutionary fighter" and not a terrorist.
Los Angeles - Country starlet Taylor Swift swept up five awards at the American Music Awards on Sunday night, beating Michael Jackson for the coveted artist of the year award. Jackson won four awards. He was named favourite male artist in the pop/roc...
Wellington - New Zealand's glaciers are melting away, according to an annual survey of the snowline on 50 glaciers in the South Island, the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) announced Monday. They have lost half of their sno...
Taipei - A US envoy on Monday assured Taipei that the US position on Taiwan remains unchanged despite President Barack Obama's visit to China. Raymond F Burghardt, chairman of the Board of Trustees of the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT) and the hi...
(RTTNews) - A "red alert" has been issued by the international police organization Interpol to nab the fugitives who are believed to be living abroad and are linked to the assassination of Bangladesh's founding leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
When white Zimbabwean farmer Irvin Reid arrived in Nigeria almost five years ago, he was given a set of grid references in the remote bush and told to find water and build a new farm.
Our last two columns have taken a look at the role of agricultural policy in increasing food security and thus reducing the number of people who experience chronic hunger in developing countries. In our survey, we have identified policies that have had the effect of reducing the level of food security for many consumers and small-scale agriculturalists and pastoralists in developing countries.
Last week the United Nations marked the 20th anniversary of the date when the Convention of the Rights of the Child (CRC) opened for signature. Since then, the CRC has become the most ratified human rights treaty in the world. Out of the 194 member states of the UN, only two - Somalia and the [...]
Hugo Chavez has defended the alleged terrorist mastermind Carlos the Jackal, saying the Venezuelan imprisoned in France was an important "revolutionary fighter."
