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• Issue of race creeps into presidential campaign
In the first presidential campaign involving an African American nominee of a major party, both candidates have agreed on this much: They would rather not dwell on the subject of race. But their allies have other ideas. Yesterday, civil rights leader ...
• Obama camp relying heavily on ground effort
Jane Goodman, a city council member in South Euclid, Ohio, who is leading the Obama effort in her ward, said she has never seen such a grass-roots push in her Cleveland suburb of Jewish voters, Russian immigrants and African Americans. But she has ...
• ANC members may form new S. African party
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - A leading South African politician said Wednesday that he and other members of the governing African National Congress may break away to form a new opposition. Mosiuoa Lekota's announcement broadcast live on national TV ...
• Zimbabwe's president claims key ministries
HARARE, Zimbabwe - Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe, locked in a standoff with the opposition in power-sharing talks, went ahead Saturday and laid claim to all key ministries as he tries to retain his iron grip on the struggling southern African ...
• South Africa will sell ivory to Japan, China
CAPE TOWN, South Africa - The South African government said Thursday that it will press ahead with plans to sell just over 51 tons of ivory to China and Japan under a special exemption to the international ban on the trade. The Convention on ...