CAPE TOWN – Sub-Saharan Africa is drawing in more private power investors, alongside state owned utilities, but the region still produces as much electricity as one European country, an expert said Tuesday. “There’s a power crisis that exists and that crisis is characterised by insufficient generation capacity,” Anton Eberhard of the University of Cape Town [...]
JERUSALEM – Is diplomacy in danger? The torrent of condemnation heaped on WikiLeaks from around the globe did suggest a widespread sense — among government officials, but also among the sometimes more jaded observer and analyst class — that in releasing U.S. diplomatic documents the group crossed a dangerous line. The prime minister of Israel, [...]
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama and Republican congressional leaders agreed Tuesday to work out their differences over taxes and vowed after their first formal meeting since the elections to work harder on a more cooperative approach. There was no consensus on whether to keep Bush era tax cuts in place for the middle class and [...]
Being a celebrity gets you a lot of free stuff and extra privileges – but not when going through airport security. Black Eyed Peas singer Fergie had to experience the new stricter TSA security rules yesterday at Los Angeles International Airport as she headed to board a flight to New York. The 35-year-old star had [...]
A Belgian who has escaped from a Sydney detention centre is a dangerous man who is wanted in his home country for violent offences, police say. As the hunt continues for Michel Munster, 33, police are warning members of the public not to approach him. Munster, who is fluent in French and German and has [...]
Chaya Choudhry is spending time studying for the Canadian citizenship test and she’s optimistic that she’ll do well. “I think it will be easy,” Choudhry says. However, documents recently obtained by the Canadian Press show that after the citizenship test changed in March the failure rate soared from a high of 8 per cent to [...]
The Liberals managed to take a riding away from the NDP in a tight byelection race Sunday night, as the Conservatives captured a Liberal stronghold in Ontario and held a seat in rural Manitoba. In the riding of Winnipeg North, Liberal candidate Kevin Lamoureux narrowly beat New Democrat candidate Kevin Chief. The riding was left [...]
SEOUL, South Korea – Jets roared off a supercarrier in U.S.-South Korean war games Tuesday, as the U.S. and two crucial Asian allies agreed to talk in Washington about North Korea’s attack on a South Korean island and the North’s nuclear weapons programs. Although North Korea kept up its sharp rhetoric — the country warned [...]
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