Berlin - Germany was in a state of shock Wednesday after a teenager killed 15 people in a school shooting spree that echoed a similar tragedy seven years ago.
"It is a sad day for the whole of Germany," Chancellor Angela Merkel" said after the rampage in the south-west region of Baden-Wuerttemberg.
"It is incredible that within the space of a few seconds, students and teachers have lost their lives as a result of a terrible crime," she said, offering her condolences to the victims' families.
Washington - US President Barack Obama called on legislators to limit the number of pet projects for their own districts that are routinely included in spending bills, but refused to completely oppose the unpopular practice known as earmarks.
A renewed debate over the merits of earmarks has been swirling in Washington over the past few weeks as Congress debated a 410-billion- dollar budget for the remainder of the 2009 fiscal year, which ends in September.
Maputo - Mozambique's government announced a string of measures to improve access to energy for millions of Mozambicans and to reduce the burden of the sector on state finances, local media reported Wednesday.
The government of President Armando Guebuza announced plans to dismantle the monopoly on fuel imports, invest 8.5 billion dollars in the implementation of a four-year plan to expand electricity nationwide, and expand natural gas output for the domestic and export markets.
Harare - Ministers from several African governments and thousands of Zimbabweans joined Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai at the burial of his wife Susan in her home district of Buhera on Wednesday, five days after her death in a car crash.
At least 5,000 people looked on as Tsvangirai's wife of 31 years was laid to rest next to the couple's modest rural home in the little village of Humanikwa, south-west of Harare.
Brussels - NATO governments have approved the deployment of a new counter-piracy mission off the coast of Somalia consisting of seven vessels, alliance officials said Wednesday.
"NATO ambassadors have now approved the operational plan for the deployment of the Standing NATO Maritime Group 1 to conduct counter- piracy operations off the coast of Somalia," said NATO spokesman James Appathurai.
Washington - The United States will push for aggressive action to halt the global economic slide at an international financial summit next month, President Barack Obama said Wednesday, emphasizing the interconnectedness of the global economy and again warning against protectionist moves.
Ahead of April's Group of 20 (G20) gathering of the world's leading economies, Obama acknowledged that developing countries were being "hard hit" by the fallout from an economic crisis that largely began in the United States.
Berlin - Germany was in a state of shock Wednesday after a teenager killed 15 people in a school shooting spree that echoed a similar tragedy seven years ago.
Washington - US President Barack Obama called on legislators to limit the number of pet projects for their own districts that are routinely included in spending bills, but refused to completely oppose the unpopular practice known as earmarks.
Maputo - Mozambique's government announced a string of measures to improve access to energy for millions of Mozambicans and to reduce the burden of the sector on state finances, local media reported Wednesday.
Harare - Ministers from several African governments and thousands of Zimbabweans joined Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai at the burial of his wife Susan in her home district of Buhera on Wednesday, five days after her death in a car crash.
Brussels - NATO governments have approved the deployment of a new counter-piracy mission off the coast of Somalia consisting of seven vessels, alliance officials said Wednesday.
Washington - The United States will push for aggressive action to halt the global economic slide at an international financial summit next month, President Barack Obama said Wednesday, emphasizing the interconnectedness of the global economy and again warning against protectionist moves.
