Caribbean crackdown on drug traffickers
WASHINGTON (CMC):The United States Coast-guard says that illicit trafficking in cocaine is seemingly shifting from the Caribbean to the Pacific, as it announced record seizures this year."We have forced them to adapt to routes that are dangerous and are expensive...
Tutu hits at US, UK 'apartheid' policies
CAPE TOWN (Reuters): Archbishop Desmond Tutu accused the United States and Britain yesterday of pursuing policies like those of South Africa's apartheid-era government by detaining terrorism suspects without trial.At an event to commemorate the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights...
Brits split on identity
LONDON (Reuters): Here's a question. What's existed for 400 years but is no longer quite sure what it is? The answer, according to a new survey, may be Britain. A poll in the Daily Telegraph newspaper yesterday showed that only 37 per cent of English people would describe themselves...
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