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The President’s State of Nation Address 2013 set the tone: the study of current tax policies by the Minister of Finance was “…to make sure that we have an appropriate revenue base to support...
Climate change and Rwanda's entry into the Commonwealth were positive outcomes of a summit President Jacob Zuma attended in Trinidad and Tobago this week.
Almost seven years after Australia sent commandos onto a freighter at sea to block illegal immigrants, the government on Tuesday said it would abandon a controversial policy of jailing asylum...
Protesters angered over China's crackdown in Tibet marched in San Francisco ahead of the Olympic torch's arrival on Wednesday but Olympics chief Jacques Rogge said there are no plans to...
Australia's Prime Minister Kevin Rudd made a lightning visit to East Timor on Friday to pledge support after an assassination attempt on the country's president, Jose Ramos-Horta.
Rudd...
CAPE TOWN – Safety and Security Minister Charles Nqakula announces the disbanding of South Africa's elite Scorpions crime-fighting unit, a move that must still be ratified by Parliament....
Thousands of Aborigines and other Australians hugged, sobbed or stood applauding on Wednesday as the country united for a new era in race relations.
In city plazas, gardens, schoolrooms and...
East Timor President Jose Ramos-Horta was shot and critically wounded at his home in Dili on Monday in an assassination attempt by rebel soldiers that analysts said could spark renewed violence and...
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged the world on Wednesday to agree to work out a new climate treaty by 2009 and said detailed greenhouse gas cuts can be worked out after U.N. talks in Bali....
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CAPE TOWN – A written response to a Parliamentary question submitted by Gareth Morgan of the Democratic Alliance reveals that negligence or malpractice in South Africa’s...
In this podcast: Written response to Parliamentary question submitted by Gareth Morgan of the Democratic Alliance reveals that negligence or malpractice in South Africa’s public hospitals has...
Australia's new prime minister, Kevin Rudd, took the oath of office on Monday and immediately signed documents to ratify the Kyoto Protocol, ending his country's decade of opposition to...
The world is to start a 2-year drive next month to bind outsiders led by the United States and China into a U.N.-led fight against climate change with the United Nations rating failure to act...