http://www.sabcnews.com/ Latest news for World en-uk Copyright 2000-2008 South African Broadcasting Corporation. All rights reserved. Mon, 12 May 2008 22:50:20 +0200 Mon, 12 May 2008 22:50:20 +0200 World SABCNews 60 feedback@sabcnews.com webmaster@sabcnews.com http://www.sabcnews.com/images/newmedialogo_small.gif 144 79 http://www.sabcnews.com/ 1 2 3 4 http://www.sabcnews.com/world/europe/0,2172,169377,00.html http://www.sabcnews.com/world/europe/0,2172,169377,00.html US President George W. Bush today congratulated new Russian leader Dmitry Medvedev on his inauguration and used his call to express concern about Moscow's dispute with Georgia over the breakaway Abkhazia region, the White House said. Mon, 12 May 2008 21:12:37 +0200 http://www.sabcnews.com/world/the_middle_east/0,2172,169369,00.html http://www.sabcnews.com/world/the_middle_east/0,2172,169369,00.html UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon strongly condemned those behind an upsurge of violence in Lebanon and called on all parties to resume talks to find a way out of a political crisis today. Mon, 12 May 2008 19:55:05 +0200 http://www.sabcnews.com/world/asia1pacific/0,2172,169365,00.html http://www.sabcnews.com/world/asia1pacific/0,2172,169365,00.html Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif pulled his party out of Pakistan's six-week-old coalition government today, plunging the volatile Muslim nation back into political uncertainty. Mon, 12 May 2008 18:31:04 +0200 http://www.sabcnews.com/south_africa/health/0,2172,169348,00.html http://www.sabcnews.com/south_africa/health/0,2172,169348,00.html The US Supreme Court affirmed today, a ruling that apartheid victims who seek damages exceeding $400 billion from more than 50 major corporations can go forward with their lawsuits. Mon, 12 May 2008 16:39:42 +0200 http://www.sabcnews.com/world/the_middle_east/0,2172,169349,00.html http://www.sabcnews.com/world/the_middle_east/0,2172,169349,00.html Pro-government Sunni Muslim gunmen and militiamen loyal to Lebanon's Iranian-backed Shi'ite Hezbollah battled with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades in the northern city of Tripoli today. Mon, 12 May 2008 16:42:40 +0200 http://www.sabcnews.com/world/other/0,2172,169345,00.html http://www.sabcnews.com/world/other/0,2172,169345,00.html Over 42 million bags were mishandled at airports across the world last year, Nick Gates, bag portfolio director at the State Information Technology Agency (Sita), said today. Mon, 12 May 2008 16:31:44 +0200