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U.N.: Human rights violated in Zimbabwe
Jun 3 2005 10:33PM (CT)
GENEVA (AP) - The United Nations on Friday urged Zimbabwe's government to halt its campaign of evicting urban poor and demolishing their shacks around the country, calling it a clear violation of human rights.
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Kenya's terror conspiracy trial ends
Jun 3 2005 9:56PM (CT)
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - A judge began deliberating Friday on the fate of three Kenyans accused of conspiracy to bomb an Israeli-owned hotel and of attempts to shoot down an Israeli airliner north of the Indian Ocean port of Mombasa.
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Aid groups plead for Africa hunger relief
Jun 3 2005 8:01PM (CT)
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) - From Africa's locust-devastated western dust bowls to the conflict-ridden central jungles and the AIDS-struck south, aid officials calling for urgent hunger relief say a lack of money is making it increasingly difficult to help the continent's most vulnerable.
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Attacks disrupt Burundi elections
Jun 3 2005 10:15AM (CT)
BUJUMBURA, Burundi (AP) - Attacks on voters and U.N. peacekeepers Friday forced hundreds of polling stations around Burundi's capital to close early, disrupting the first democratic local government elections since the tiny central African country won independence from Belgium in 1962.
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U.N. to boost Ivory Coast troop level
Jun 3 2005 8:56AM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The United States and France reached a tentative deal to boost the size of the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Ivory Coast by nearly 2,000 troops and police to help enforce a shaky peace deal, U.N. officials said.
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