Middle East News
European News
Canadian News
Latin American News
Asian News
Australian & Pacific News
African News
|
|
|
|
|
|
Chad signs peace deal with northern rebels
Aug 19 2005 8:44PM (CT)
N'DJAMENA, Chad (AP) - Chad's government has signed its third peace deal in three years with northern rebels in an effort to end a seven-year-old conflict in the region.
|
|
|
South African apartheid-era policeman dies
Aug 19 2005 4:28PM (CT)
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) - A former police colonel who confessed to a role in the death of anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko and was convicted of killing several other opponents of white rule died in prison Friday.
|
|
|
Kenyan priest, others charged with murder
Aug 19 2005 3:22PM (CT)
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - A Kenyan priest and five other people were charged Friday with murdering a Roman Catholic bishop in a plot to control church funds.
|
|
|
Ex-rebel leader elected Burundi president
Aug 19 2005 12:53PM (CT)
BUJUMBURA, Burundi (AP) - A former Hutu rebel leader was chosen by lawmakers as Burundi's president Friday, culminating an internationally mediated effort that hopes to bring peace to a central African nation wrecked by a dozen years of ethnic war.
|
|
|
|
|
|