"The memory of a glorious past cannot deliberately leave out the dark episodes related to the process of evangelization in Latin America". Pope Benedict XVI recalled the various stages of his trip to Latin America during his first audience back in Italy, for the purpose of clarifying some events that caused harsh criticism. The main reference he made was to the issue of the natives. In Brazil, during the inaugural speech he gave at the Latin American Episcopal Conference, he did not mention the blood spilled by the natives during the European colonization and to the following evangelization. This deeply hurt the feelings of the native communities

All 12 defendants in the trial for murder of Zoran Dijndijc, Serbia's former prime minister, are convicted

Censorship of the internet: China, Myanmar and Iran the most repressive countries

Pogdorica signs non-extradition treaty for US soldiers

Sentenced to death, Abu-Jamal is about to face a hearing before Philadelphia Federal Court that could save his life

Ceuta was once the door to Europe for thousands of migrants. Now that door is wide shut. No one can cross the spanish enclave in Morocco anymore, according to the governments of Rabat and Madrid. Moroccan police uses its iron fist with migrants, while Spain lavishly gives money for the development of tourism, an action that generates contracts for the rich spanish companies. The whole coastline from Ceuta to Tetouan swarms with building sites for the entertainment of the european. Just another way of making money, while the desperation that drives the migrants to escape remains the same

The regime frees an activist as the European Union decides on sanctions. For dozens of other activists, journalists, and religious leaders, the doors of Uzbekistan’s prisons remain shut. Fierce repression under Karimov pushes the European Union to an important decision

The election of the new French president inspires hopes and fears on the continent

Paedophilia and violence in the virtual community that acts like real life. 'Second life', safe haven for all those who chose to disguise their personality behind an 'avatar', is becoming a receptacle for trade of illegal pictures and files

The Pan-African Parliament asks the West to intervene on global warming

Chiquita company explains why it paid 1,7 million dollars to Colombian paramilitary groups

The president of Lokomotive Plovidv is killed in Sofia. Like his two predecessors

Piracy thrives in the no-man’s land of Somalian waters

Is the Gaza Strip a stronghold of radical Islam? Al Aqsa TV, in the last few weeks aired a program hosted by a Mickey Mouse look-alike mouse, which teaches children Islamic values

Sunia is sixteen years old and smiles. Ali Osman Taha, Sudan vice president, is few steps away but today Sunia is probably the most important person here: she is the first patient operated in the Salam heart surgery centre, built by Emergency on the Blue Nile banks