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 August 05, 2008

    

 
 

• French sailors seized in Nigeria
  Police in Nigeria's restive Niger Delta region have not received any ransom demand from kidnappers who took two French seamen captive on Sunday. BBC
   

• SA president denies bribe claims
  The office of South African President Thabo Mbeki denies reports claiming he was paid millions to approve an arms deal. BBC
   

• Supporters rally for ANC leader
  Supporters rally for the head of South Africa's ruling ANC, Jacob Zuma, as he tries to get corruption charges dropped. BBC
   

• Old rocket blamed for Chad blast
  A deadly explosion at the central market in Chad's capital was caused by an old rebel rocket, a minister says. BBC
   

• Zimbabwe's Interparty Negotiations Resume in Secret
  Insiders say power-sharing deal could be ready by Friday VOA
   

• AU Delegation in Sudan for Talks on Bashir Warrant
  The head of the African Union Commission is in the Sudanese capital Khartoum to discuss a request by the International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor for an arrest warrant for Sudan's president. VOA
   

• ANC Chief Cheered Upon Arrival to Court on Corruption Charges
  Hundreds of supporters cheered Jacob Zuma, the leader of South Africa's ruling ANC party, as he entered court Monday, to try to win dismissal of a corruption case that could hurt his chances of becoming the nation's president next year. VOA
   

• Bill Clinton Ends Africa Trip with Appeal for HIV Medicine
  Former U.S. President Bill Clinton wrapped up a three-day, four country trip to Africa with an address at a hospital in Senegal. VOA
   

• Defiant ANC leader fights corruption charges
  Lawyers for Jacob Zuma, president of the African National Congress, urged judges Monday to declare Zuma's prosecution on corruption charges unlawful. Hundreds of his followers, who see him as the champion of the poor, gathered outside the courthouse. CNN
   

• Bomb kills 15 women street cleaners
  MOGADISHU, Somalia (CNN) -- A roadside bombing in Somalia's capital killed 21 women who were cleaning rubbish from a southern Mogadishu street on Sunday morning, a hospital official said. CNN
   

• Deadly attack hits China's Xinjiang
  State media says 16 policemen killed in grenade attack on border police station in the city of Kashgar. Aljazeera
   

• A World that Stands as One
  by Sen. Barack Obama
  Thank you to the citizens of Berlin and to the people of Germany. Let me thank Chancellor Merkel and Foreign Minister Steinmeier for welcoming me earlier today. Thank you Mayor Wowereit, the Berlin Senate, the police, and most of all thank you for this welcome. Conscience Daily International
   

• A New Strategy for a New World
  by Barack Obama, Washington D.C
  Sixty-one years ago, George Marshall announced the plan that would come to bear his name. Much of Europe lay in ruins. The United States faced a powerful and ideological enemy intent on world domination. This menace was magnified by the recently discovered capability to destroy life on an unimaginable scale. The Soviet Union didn't yet have an atomic bomb, but before long it would. Conscience Daily International

 

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