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African Union Observers Impressed With Gambia Election.

The leader of the African Union (AU) poll observer mission monitoring Gambia’s presidential election says his team is positively impressed with the organization of the poll and the conduct of voters.

Britain urged to clamp down on ‘vulture funds’.

BRITAIN IS being urged to help close down a legal loophole that lets financiers known as “vulture funds” use courts in Jersey to claim hundreds of millions of pounds from the world’s poorest countries.  The call came from international poverty campaigners as one of the vulture funds was poised to be awarded a $100 million (€74 million) debt payout against the Democratic Republic of Congo after taking action in the Jersey courts…

Clinton says HIV drugs can help lead to ‘Aids-free generation’.

WASHINGTON – The US set a new direction for its global Aids campaign yesterday, emphasising HIV-fighting drugs that can prevent new infections to bring the goal of “an AIDS-free generation” within reach, US secretary of state Hillary Clinton said.

Hague says suppression of internet is not acceptable.

INTERNATIONAL “RULES of the road” must be agreed for the internet, but not at the price of freedom of expression, British foreign secretary William Hague has told a major conference in London.   “The internet is not separate from society, it is part of society and mirrors society,” he said. “The best and worst of human behaviour find expression online and the technology lends itself to misuse as well as to great benefit.”

Netanyahu: Israel ready to tackle other challenges now that Shalit released – Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday thanked the ministers of his cabinet for approving the prisoner swap with Hamas that secured the release of Israel Defense Forces soldier Gilad Shalit, adding that the government was ready to tackle other issues at hand.

Obama pulls out of Iraq.

President Barack Obama said all American troops will leave Iraq by the end of the year, ending a long war which cleaved deep political divides and estranged the United States from its allies.

UN calls for Gaddafi probe.

The circumstances surrounding the death of Libya’s ousted despot Muammar Gaddafi are unclear and an investigation is needed, the UN human rights chief said on Friday.

It’s good to talk: Mobile phone use not linked to cancer, says new research – Health News, Health – Independent.ie.

THERE is no link between the long-term use of a mobile phone and getting brain cancer, research suggests.  In what has been described as the largest study on the subject, researchers found that cancer rates in the central nervous system were almost the same in both long-term mobile phone users and people who do not use the handsets, the study published on bmj.com found.