Breaking News
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JOHANNESBURG (AFP)--South Africa's government has set out an ambitious proposal to deal with climate change in the coming years, including slapping a possible carbon tax on carbon dioxide-spewing industries.
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GABORONE (AFP)--Botswana, a harsh critic of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, may boycott an upcoming regional summit if the veteran leader clings to power without a negotiated settlement, the foreign minister has said.
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LAGOS (AFP)--Gunmen have kidnapped two French nationals in oil-rich southern Nigeria, local police and French officials said Sunday.
Global Governance
Written by: Andreas Bummel
NEW YORK --Humanity is undergoing an unprecedented technological, social, and economic revolution, yet admidst these upheavals the global political order has hardly changed.
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DAKAR (AFP)--Former US president Bill Clinton wound up a four-nation Africa tour aimed at combating HIV/AIDS in Dakar on Sunday, praising France for its financial support through the agency Unitaid.
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ENTEBBE (AFP)--Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni on Saturday argued that the African Union (AU) should carry out its own probe into war crimes allegations against Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir.
International Business
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JOHANNESBURG (AFP)--South Africa's government has set out an ambitious proposal to deal with climate change in the coming years, including slapping a possible carbon tax on carbon dioxide-spewing industries.
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DUBAI (AFP)--Dubai carrier Emirates underscored the rapid growth of air travel in the oil-rich Gulf region on Monday as it takes delivery of its first Airbus super jumbo, the world's largest civilian airliner.
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GENEVA (AFP)--Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell cut output in southern Nigeria Monday after militants sabotaged at least one of its pipelines supplying crude, officials said.
Opinion and Analysis
Written by: John Mizzoni
COMMENTARY
NEW YORK--Ray Anderson is the CEO of Interface Corporation, a carpet tile manufacturing company with $1.1 billion in annual sales and 38 percent of the global market for carpet tiles.
Written by: Dani Rodrik
COMMENTARY
BOSTON -- The world economy has seen globalization collapse once already. The gold standard era—with its free capital mobility and open trade—came to an abrupt end in 1914 and could not be resuscitated after World War I. Are we about to witness a similar global economic breakdown?
Written by: Ian Buruma
NEW YORK--The late Arthur Koestler, born in Budapest, resident of many countries, and writer in several languages, once said that there is nationalism, and there is football nationalism. The feelings inspired by the latter are by far the stronger.
Mining
Written by: Pana
Windhoek, Namibia (PANA) - Uranium and nuclear giant Areva said work on its Trekkopje uranium mine in Namibia would start 1 July, after it was granted a mining licence by the Namibian government.
Written by: Pana
Windhoek, Namibia (PANA) - A breakthrough to end a crippling strike at Namibia's largest zinc mine, Skorpion Zinc mine, may have been achieved late Thursday aft e r a major climbdown by workers' union following tense negotiations and a debilitating strike which lasted nearly a week.
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JOHANNESBURG (AFP) Two South African gold mines, which suspended operations last week after nine miners were killed when a lift cage plummeted down a shaft, have resumed operations, a company spokesman said Tuesday.
