Johannesburg - Madagascar's deposed president, Marc Ravalomanana, is in Swaziland after being forced from office, according to a Swazi newspaper report Tuesday.
The Swazi Observer newspaper, quoting the Foreign Ministry of the mountain kingdom that is landlocked with South Africa, reported that Ravalomanana had arrived the previous day on an undisclosed mission.
Swazi King Mswati III currently chairs the security organ of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), of which the Indian Ocean island of Madagascar is a member.
London - The British government warned Tuesday that a terrorist attack on the country was "highly likely" and could "happen without warning, at any time."
Home Secretary Jacqui Smith sounded the warning as she presented a terror strategy report to parliament which said that the main threat came from a terrorist plot involving a so-called dirty bomb.
Washington - US authorities need broad new emergency powers to take over non-financial firms whose collapse could threaten the wider economy, the country's top economic officials warned Tuesday in the wake of the bail-out of insurance giant American International Group Inc.
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke defended the bail-out of AIG, which began in September, as critical to the survival of the US financial system.
Prague - Czech lawmakers convened Tuesday to submit Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek's government to a confidence test, the outcome of which could undermine country's presidency of the European Union and efforts to ratify the bloc's reform Lisbon Treaty.
If the government falls, it would also complicate the Czech Republic's efforts to battle the economic slump and deal a major blow to Czech-US missile defence treaties, Topolanek's key foreign policy project.
London - The British government Tuesday warned of the increased threat of a nuclear or chemical attack, while unveiling plans of a greater involvement of the public in the fight against terrorism.
A government assessment of the terrorist threat said that while terrorism networks such as al-Qaeda were "likely to fragment" and might not survive in their current form, their ideology would live on.
Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, in a report to be submitted to parliament later Tuesday, said the "likely future direction" of the threat would involve the use of a so-called dirty bomb.
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Johannesburg - Madagascar's deposed president, Marc Ravalomanana, is in Swaziland after being forced from office, according to a Swazi newspaper report Tuesday.
London - The British government warned Tuesday that a terrorist attack on the country was "highly likely" and could "happen without warning, at any time."
Washington - US authorities need broad new emergency powers to take over non-financial firms whose collapse could threaten the wider economy, the country's top economic officials warned Tuesday in the wake of the bail-out of insurance giant American International Group Inc.
Prague - Czech lawmakers convened Tuesday to submit Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek's government to a confidence test, the outcome of which could undermine country's presidency of the European Union and efforts to ratify the bloc's reform Lisbon Treaty.
London - The British government Tuesday warned of the increased threat of a nuclear or chemical attack, while unveiling plans of a greater involvement of the public in the fight against terrorism.
