HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuban leader Fidel Castro on Monday called Democrat Barack Obama the candidate most advanced on social issues running for U.S. president but said his speech on Cuba last week was a “formula for hunger.”
In one of his periodic newspaper columns published in Communist Party newspaper Granma, Castro said he had “no personal [...]

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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa said on Monday violent attacks on immigrants which have killed 56 people in the last fortnight were under control.
President Thabo Mbeki called the attacks, which have uprooted some 30,000 people, a disgrace on Sunday and said his government would act firmly to curb the bloodshed as criticism from African nations [...]

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By Alexander Panetta, The Canadian Press
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Stephen Harper has accepted the resignation of his embattled foreign affairs minister over an apparent security breach involving secret military documents.
Harper told an extraordinary news conference on Parliament Hill on Monday evening that Maxime Bernier’s controversial relationship with a woman linked to the Hells Angels [...]

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BY JUDIE KABERIA
Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission Director Justice Aaron Ringera, Businessman Kamlesh Pattni and two Grand Regency Hotel receivers are due to appear before a Parliamentary Committee on Tuesday to clear the air over the hotel’s handover.
Capital News has learnt that the four will be quizzed by the Finance Committee over the controversial sale of the [...]

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By Caren Bohan
MIDDLETOWN, Connecticut (Reuters) - U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama, seen by some as the heir to the Kennedy family legacy, praised Sen. Edward Kennedy as a champion for the poor and struggling, as he stepped in for the ailing Massachusetts senator at a graduation ceremony.
Obama, who was endorsed by the 76-year-old Kennedy, called [...]

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ADDIS ABABA (AFP) - Ethiopia’s Supreme Court sentenced former dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam to death in his absence Monday, along with 17 senior officials of his regime, overturning a previous life term on appeal.
The court followed the request of the prosecution to toughen the sentence imposed in January 2007 on Mengistu, who has lived in [...]

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By Nelson Banya
HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe will respect the will of voters if they end his 28-year rule in a run-off election against opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, the state-run Herald newspaper reported on Monday.
Tsvangirai beat Mugabe in the March 29 presidential poll but failed to win an absolute majority. His Movement for [...]

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