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SYDNEY ~ Climate change is combining with Australia’s record-breaking drought to strangle the nation’s largest river system, threatening to devastate... Read More →

NEW DELHI ~ Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama was resting in his home-in-exile this week after being treated for... Read More →

KOGELO, Kenya ~ Thousands danced in the Kenyan village where Barack Obama’s father was born and ecstatic revelers toasted at... Read More →

WASHINGTON ~ Hillary Clinton became US President Barack Obama’s top diplomat on Wednesday after pledging to fight climate change, push... Read More →

NEW YORK ~ Wall Street roared higher on Wednesday as strong earnings from IBM and others helped investors shake off... Read More →

JOHANNESBURG ~ Southern African leaders are planning their seventh summit on Zimbabwe since elections last March, and analysts said the... Read More →

LONDON ~ British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said on Thursday the notion of a “war on terror” was “misleading and... Read More →

WASHINGTON ~ The United States spent at least US$52 billion on nuclear-related programs last year, most of it to maintain... Read More →

KUALA LUMPUR ~ The global economic crisis has handed the Islamic finance sector a “golden opportunity” to show it is... Read More →

SINGAPORE ~ Human rights watchdog Amnesty International asked Singapore this week to make public “comprehensive information” about its use of... Read More →