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...stop the speaker of the South African parliament from reprimanding her for failing to disclose her financial interest in Soweto's Winnie Mandela Family Museum. Following the verdicts, Madikizela-Mandela said she would resign from all her public positions. Hell No, He Won't Go venezuela President Hugo Chávez's government refused to sign an agreement it had made with the opposition to hold a referendum that could force Chávez to resign. The Organization of American States brokered the agreement to end a two-month general strike organized by Chávez's opponents earlier this...
Marcel Guigal is worried. every year the celebrated winemaker from the town of Ampuis, near Lyons, ships 27% of his 460,000 cases of Hermitage, Châteauneuf-du-Pape and other appellations to the United States. These days, his importers tell him, much of it is languishing in warehouses, as irate Americans show how they feel about French President Jacques Chirac's stance against the war in Iraq. "Our President is a man with a big heart, and everyone is against war. But France's position against America has been too hard, too cut-and-dried," Guigal says...
...bigger consolation is that the ordeal is over. If the remainder rack beckons for Timoleon Vieta, he might return to the Tunbridge Wells, England, bookshop he worked in until last July; should the book turn him into the Next Big Thing, he'd sink the proceeds in a little château in France and no doubt a better bed from which to contemplate his desk. "I haven't had a good idea for months," he says. "It's very liberating." Despite finding its way onto Granta's list, Timoleon Vieta Come Home has neither the contemporary crackle of Smith...
...family into their Peugeot station wagon and started speeding away. They were immediately shot up. It could have been the U.S. helicopter says Abbas, who has a white bandage wrapped around his head. "But I know the Americans saved my life." Abbas was picked up by a Marine CH-46 helicopter and flown to the base. His wife is in the hospital with him. His brother was evacuated to the Comfort. The five kids in the car all were killed...
...National Banking Council announced that banks will resume normal opening hours from Feb. 2. The move followed the reopening of many businesses, which are struggling to avoid bankruptcy. But oil workers at the heart of the campaign vowed to continue. The strike, intended to unseat leftist President Hugo Chávez, is estimated to have cost at least $4 billion and seven lives. Diplomats from six countries met in the capital, Caracas, to help end the conflict...