Some 3,000 people from Sudan's war-torn Darfur region are again homeless after fire swept through part of a refugee camp in eastern Chad today, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) reported.
Leaders from northern Uganda and international human rights groups have reacted cautiously to rebel chief Joseph Kony's failure to sign a final peace deal with the government.
The chief mediator in Uganda's peace process that faltered on Friday has stayed on in Ri-Kwangba to try to salvage a final deal with LRA leader Joseph Kony amidst reports that the rebels' former lead negotiator had been arrested.
TORONTO, April 12 - George Smitherman, Deputy Premier and Minister of Health and Long-Term Care, will make an important new announcement regarding hospital funding in Ontario.
Secretary Rice (Apr. 11): "We have talked some about the importance of continuing to develop the alliance. I had an opportunity to talk a little bit about the President's trip to Russia. We've had a chance to talk about the
In line with its development work on MILAN ADT- ER, MBDA has successfully conducted a series of three test firings, further demonstratingthe reliability of the new technologies integrated within this new weapon system. The tests involvedthe new ADT (ADvanced Technologies)
DCNS has signed a contract with French defence procurement agency DGA (Délégation Générale pour l'Armement) as prime contractor and manufacturer for new generation heavyweight torpedoes to replace F17 Mod2 torpedoes carried by French nuclear-powered submarines. The contract also calls for
Army Commander Alexander Belevich announced today that the 16th air force regiment of the Russian air force will receive Su-34 aircraft by 2008 end. Multipurpose aircraft Su-34 are in series production in Novosibirsk aircraft factory, which is a part of
You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has outlined four options for the future of the United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE), including the possibility of axing the mission, because of restrictions imposed by Eritrea on its side of the disputed border.
Reuters - French commandos seized six pirates in Somalia on Friday during a daring helicopter raid launched shortly after the bandits had released the 30-strong crew of a luxury yacht hijacked last week.
Lew Uhler, President of the National Tax Limitation Committee, applauds the actions of young people in celebrating the myth of Global Warming and environmental doomsday, which underlies the battle over paper bags verses plastic bags. Young people have the greatest
Ten additional new units of courseware, covering arts and history, business and management, education, social sciences, languages and information technology, have just been added to the Open University of Hong Kong (OUHK)'s suite of Free Courseware on the Web. (PRWeb
A small four-door sedan, compact station wagon and four sport utility vehicles in the exhibit can navigate themselves without human drivers through a combination of servo-devices and radar- and laser-enabled sensors, said Anthony J. Tether, director of the Defense Advanced
Chinese hackers broke into the computer network of the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) recently prompting the government to think about fortifying the system. No sensitive information is believed to have been accessed during the hacking, which was detected during
CRAWFORD, Tex., April 11 -- President Bush said Friday that he was aware his top national security advisers had discussed the details of harsh interrogation tactics to be used on detainees.
Boeing and ANA celebrated the inaugural flight of the first 767-300 Boeing Converted Freighter this week, as well as completion of the airplane's journey to Seattle on the airplane's second flight. The home city of Boeing Commercial Airplanes will be
