World - Seattle Post I. - 2010-09-10 06:22:04.
Activists in Africa seek gov't funds to fight AIDS
JOHANNESBURG -- African doctors and rights activists are pressing their governments to spend more on health as part of a campaign to stop children from getting AIDS.
World - Seattle Post I. - 2010-09-10 06:22:04.
Machel: Mozambique must tackle broad food crisis
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- The widow of independent Mozambique's first president says the debate over food in her impoverished homeland does not end with the government's reversal on bread prices.
World - Seattle Post I..
2 Guinea election officials charged with fraud
CONAKRY, Guinea -- Two senior voting officials have been charged with vote tampering and sentenced to one year in prison a week before Guinea's crucial presidential vote, in a court proceeding that not even their lawyers were informed of and which is bound to increase tensions before the poll.
World - Seattle Post I..
Moms of US hikers held in Iran get some good news
PINE CITY, Minn. -- Three U.S. mothers who have pleaded with Iranian authorities for more than a year to free their sons and daughter from a Tehran prison finally received a piece of the news they've been longing for.
World - Los Angeles Times.
Marine Corps seeks to use buddy ethic to stem rise in suicides
52 Marines killed themselves last year, compared with 42 the previous year. The corps wants Marines to rescue other Marines from the edge, just as they would come to their aid in combat.
The young Marine had just gotten a Dear John letter from a woman he had described as "my everything." Days later, he killed himself while on guard duty here in Helmand province.
World - Herald Tribune.
Letter From India: Managing the Future to Keep the Past
In a country proud of its ancient history, Indian cities are strikingly indifferent to the past. Still, the example of Pondicherry suggests that the urban eyesores that dominate India are not inevitable.
