Last month, President Thabo Mbeki was forced to call in the military to help the police restore order in townships across South Africa. A wave of xenophobic violence left 50 dead. Though the mob mostly targeted illegal immigrants from other parts of Africa, it also went after some economically successful South African minorities. It would be a tragedy if the ethnic violence fueled by rising poverty... 

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JERUSALEM – In an effort to combat what it calls Internet smears, Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign yesterday launched a website with the stated aimed of setting the record straight. One of the main issues addressed by Obama’s “Fight the Smears” site is the contention the Illinois senators was once a Muslim. “Senator Obama has never been a Muslim, was not raised... 

Municipalities in Sweden should be required to accept refugees, a government inquiry has concluded. Next week the results of a state commission will be presented which suggest that all municipalities should be forced to take in refugees, reports the Dagens Samhälle newspaper. Last year county administrative boards took over responsibility for managing the receiving of refugees. Since then, the boards... 

  Human rights group Amnesty International has said it is extremely alarmed by what it calls a “climate of discrimination” in Italy. The Italian section of the rights body said recent tough new immigration measures were a worrying trend. It added that politicians from both sides of the spectrum were legitimising the use of racist language. Last week, Italy’s new centre-right... 

THE service sector is at risk of losing more than one million jobs during the next two decades as a result of big business outsourcing work overseas, a union report predicts. One in 10 service jobs could be sent offshore, the report prepared for the Service Unions of Australia reveals today. The service sector accounts for four out of five jobs and 80 per cent of economic activity in Australia and... 

At least 12 people have been killed in the South African city of Johannesburg since Friday in a wave of violence directed at immigrants, police say. Police have used tear gas and rubber bullets to try to stop gangs of armed youths from attacking foreigners and looting and burning their property. Five people were killed overnight in the area of Cleveland. Two of them were burned and the others beaten... 

The article goes on to report that Obama supporters have had some difficulty reaching out to white audiences as of late. True, Obama’s racially-charged rhetoric has done little to attract white votes, just his failure to respect the American flag during the national anthem and his wife’s “finally proud to be an American” commentary will never top the list of ‘most advantageous... 

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On Tuesday night Mr and Mrs Rogers (pictured) were viciously attacked in an incident between Chegutu and Kadoma. Their farmhouse was looted and trashed in the attack. We have been told that their injuries are serious: Mrs Rogers was beaten and has suffered a cracked jaw and broken ribs. Mr Rogers has broken ribs and a broken nose – and his ear was bitten. He was shot at seven times and apparently... 

Faced with an alarming incidence of HIV/AIDS among African Americans and Latinos, the nation urgently needs to begin a domestic program to curb the spread of the disease, according to a nationally recognized AIDS policy expert. “It’s not on the radar screen. There are not enough voices being raised,” said Dr. Beny J. Primm, executive director of the Addiction Research and Treatment... 

I’m a northern European medical doctor. A senior surgeon, working in the public sector of South Africa. I have done so the last 5 years. I do not want to speak outside my discipline, so this will be about the medical demise of SA. Most visitors to South Africa, who encounter the public health sector, do so by visiting a hospital or a clinic in or near the big cities. What they get to see is a hospital... 

  Hispanics now account for more than 15% of the U.S. population, and their surge is largely the result of births among people already in the country, according to new Census Bureau data. In an annual report, the Census said there are 45.5 million Hispanics in the U.S., up from 35.7 million in 2000, when they made up 12.6% of the population. It said growth among Hispanics was responsible for... 

On December 16th, 1961 urban areas, government and municipal installations came under attack by sabotage. Bombs brought down electrical pylons, damaged offices and rail tracks. Posters pasted up during the night announced the actions to be the work of a new body, Umkhonto we Sizwe, the military wing of the anc which would carry on armed forms of struggle for the liberation of the people. Umkhonto... 

A MAN has posted videos on YouTube in which he claims to have deliberately “infected” thousands of women with AIDS. The masked-man – who calls himself “Trashman” and speaks with an American accent in a series of clips posted on the video-sharing website – claims to have “infected” between 1200 and 1500 with the disease. In the videos, Trashman reads the names...