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PRESIDENT Ali Abdullah Saleh’s face is everywhere in Yemen. He stares out from billboards, shop windows and living room walls, always with the same proud expression: eyes glinting, chest thrust out as if to confront a challenger. After 30 years in...
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Violence in all of Iraq is the lowest since March 2004. The two largest cities, Baghdad and Basra, are calmer than they have been for years. The third largest, Mosul, is in the midst of a major security operation....
Tonderai Ndira was a shrewd choice for assassination: young, courageous and admired. Kill him and fear would pulse through a thousand spines. He was an up-and-comer in Zimbabwe’s opposition party, a charismatic figure with a strong following in the...
With the right technology and policies, India could help feed the world. Instead, it can barely feed itself.
India’s supply of arable land is second only to that of the United States, its economy is one of the fastest growing in the world, and its...
Japanese company, Genepax has claimed that it has created a new eco-friendly car that can run on nothing but water. The company did not disclose much but they use some process to produce hydrogen from water, used as fuel for a hydrogen fuel cell to run...
After taking on the big and small screens, comic book heroes like Spiderman and Superman may soon be appearing on an even smaller screen — your mobile phone.
Suit-clad businessmen reading comic books are a common sight on Japanese trains, but...
WITH an Italian-sounding name, a line of computers once made by I.B.M., and a chief executive who hails from Dell and NCR, the Lenovo Group is not a company that most Americans would assume is Chinese.
And that is just fine with Lenovo, which happens...
The Mississippi River’s crest rolled downstream on Friday, submerging small towns and some of the U.S. Midwest’s most fertile farm fields with a relentless flow as people and industry struggled to cope with the effects of the worst flooding...
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police brought criminal charges on Thursday against three former executives of Nortel Networks, the telecommunications company, more than four years after accounting irregularities were discovered at the firm.
Charged were...
Rebels from Nigeria’s oil-producing Niger Delta on Thursday claimed responsibility for the attack on Royal Dutch Shell’s Bonga oilfield and the kidnapping of an American oil worker.
The rebel Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta...
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