Venezuela’s National Assembly has passed an election law that critics say will favour the party of President Hugo Chavez in polls next year.
The law passed easily in the National Congress, which is dominated by supporters of Mr Chavez.
It allows the National Election Council to redraw voting district boundaries.
Meanwhile, Venezuela’s media regulator ordered the [...]
Venezuela’s National Assembly has passed an election law that critics say will favour the party of President Hugo Chavez in polls next year.
The law passed easily in the National Congress, which is dominated by supporters of Mr Chavez.
It allows the National Election Council to redraw voting district boundaries.
Meanwhile, Venezuela’s media regulator ordered the [...]
Former Philippines President Corazon Aquino has died at the age of 76, her family has said.
She had been suffering from colon cancer for more than a year and recently announced she was refusing further treatment.
Her family had said she was leaving her fate to God, prompting church services offering prayers for her health.
Mrs [...]
By Brian HungweHarare
Human smugglers are running a complex multi-million dollar network, fleecing distressed Somalis seeking a way out of their war-torn country and desperate Ethiopians caught up in vicious cycles of hunger, floods and political repression.
Thousands of people leave their countries every year, trekking thousands of miles through eight countries from the Horn of Africa, [...]
The body of former world boxing champion Arturo Gatti has been exhumed at his family’s request.
A new autopsy will now be carried out on Mr Gatti’s body at the Quebec coroner’s office.
Mr Gatti was found dead on 11 July in a hotel in north-eastern Brazil where he had been staying with his wife and [...]