January 14, 2012
“The Iron Lady,” the new biopic starring Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher, was controversial before audiences even saw it, largely because of its portrayal of the aging former prime minister’s dementia. The current UK prime minister, David Cameron, suggested the movie was premature and shouldn’t have been made while Thatcher was alive. Her former [...]
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October 28, 2011
Saif Al-Islam, son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, gestures as he talks to reporters in Tripoli August 23, 2011. International war crimes prosecutors are in touch with Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, urging him to give himself up and warning him Friday he risks a mid-air interception if he tries to flee by plane to an African [...]
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October 22, 2011
Libyan National Transitional Council (NTC) fighter Nabil Ali Dagouich shows on October 21 in the flashpoint city of Misrata Moamer Kadafhi’s golden gun after participating in the capture of Libya’s late strongman. Muammar Qaddafi’s last moments were captured on video and released on the Internet: In one he is alive and in the other, dead. [...]
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October 12, 2011
A Vietnamese delegation has finalized a wildlife protection agreement with South Africa focusing on the rhinoceros. Under the agreement, a campaign will be launched against the deep-rooted belief in Vietnam that the endangered creature’s horn is a powerful medicine. Nguyen Trung Kien, member of the delegation and counselor of the Vietnam embassy in South [...]
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October 8, 2011
South African protesters hold signs during a demonstration outside the Chinese embassy in Pretoria on September 22, calling on the government to stop poachers from killing rhinos for their horns. A plan to legalize the rhino horn trade in South Africa has drawn flak from experts concerned the move would be a setback for conservation [...]
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September 22, 2011
Veterinarians try to sedate a badly injured white rhino after poachers sawed off its horn on the Aquila Game Reserve in Touws River, some 180 Km North of Cape Town, in August 2011. China, Vietnam and Thailand, where rhinoceros horns are used for supposed medicinal properties, need to match South Africa’s efforts to end a [...]
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September 20, 2011
Veterinarians try to sedate a badly injured white rhino after poachers sawed off its horn on the Aquila Game Reserve in Touws River, some 180 Km North of Cape Town, in August 2011. A delegation from Vietnam will visit South Africa next week to discuss ways to stem the growth rhino poaching, with nearly 300 [...]
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September 18, 2011
Visa hassles makes globetrotter out of humiliated ‘third world’ citizen Kashi Samaddar recently received a Guinness World Record as the first person to visit the then 194 sovereign countries In 1893, Mahatma Gandhi encountered an act of racism in South Africa that galvanized his campaign against discrimination and shaped his response of non-violent resistance. [...]
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May 31, 2011
South African army soldiers patrol at Matiga military airport in Tripoli, as part of a security delegation accompanying South African President Jacob Zuma, who held talks on ending the conflict in Libya. NATO pounded Libya’s capital on Tuesday, only hours after South Africa’s president left following talks that produced only a commitment to a peace [...]
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May 16, 2011
Vietnamese Embassy in South Africa is searching for two Vietnamese sailors who went missing after a gas explosion onboard a Taiwanese fishing boat. The accident left two other Vietnamese sailors dead last month. The eight other Vietnamese sailors injured in the explosion returned home Saturday after medical treatment in South Africa. The bodies of the two dead sailors [...]
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