| |  English Nicholas D. Kristof: Can this be pro-life? International Herald Tribune The Bush administration this month is quietly cutting off birth control supplies to some of the world's poorest women in Africa. Thus the paradox of a "pro-life" administration adopting a policy whose result will be tens of thousands of additional abortions each year - along with more women dying in childbirth. The saga also spotlights a clear... photo: UN / Eric Kanalstein Lavrov looks beyond army pull-out BBC News BBC: Minister, the withdrawal from the buffer zone has now started. Can you guarantee it will be completed by the end of 10 October? LAVROV: Absolutely. The withdrawal was conditioned on the deployment of EU observers in the areas of Georgia adjacent to the territories of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. The withdrawal started very soon after the first... photo: AP / Sergei Grits Record inflation pressures Zimbabwe parties - Yahoo Daily News By MacDonald Dzirutwe 3 minutes ago HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's annual inflation hit a record 231 million percent in July, piling pressure on the ruling party and opposition to break a deadlock in negotiations and form a cabinet that can rescue the ruined economy.... photo: AP Photo / Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi A win-win situation for India BBC News The Indo-US civil nuclear agreement, signed by President Bush after being approved by the US Congress, ends India's nuclear isolation and recognises the world's largest democracy as the de facto sixth nuclear power. It is a historic breakthrough for India, which struggled against sanctions and denials of high technology as a nuclear pariah for more... photo: White House / Chris Greenberg UK: Rights for Terror Suspects Human Rights (London, October 8, 2008) The United Kingdom should heed calls in a critical UN report to drop proposals to detain terrorism suspects for 42 days without charge, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter to the home and foreign secretaries. The government should bring its counterterrorism policies into line with the recommendations from the UN... photo: UN / Marco Castro Tata announces new plant for Nano BBC News Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. The Tata Nano was unveiled at India's biggest car show in Delhi in January Indian firm Tata Motors is to build the world's cheapest car in the western state of Gujarat. Tata group chairman Ratan Tata said the Gujarat deal offered the best chance of making the car, the Nano, as quickly... |
