Month: February 2005

Pellworm. Germany, 10 December, 2005— The world of the Fine Arts, particularly painting, is for laymen, often a boring, and unappealing abstraction. Yet art lovers, possessed with aesthetic nerves, do get around the paintings, and […]

Lome, 5 February, 2005— President Gnassingbe Eyadema of Togo, Africa’s longest serving head of state, died on Saturday. The armed forces of the small West African country immediately suspended the constitution and named one of […]

Lome, 5 February, 2005— President Gnassingbe Eyadema of Togo, Africa’s longest serving head of state, has died in office after ruling his country continuously for 38 years, Prime Minister Kofi Sama said on Saturday. Sama […]

New York, 4 February, 2005— Declaring that he did not want a shadow to hang over the United Nations, Secretary-General Kofi Annan today again pledged prompt action after an interim report by an independent panel […]

New York, 3 February, 2005— Reaffirming his pledge to act resolutely on any findings of staff misconduct in connection with the United Nations Oil-for-Food programme for Iraq, Secretary-General Kofi Annan today announced that he had […]

London, 3 February, 2005— Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is in London on the initial leg of her first overseas trip, an eight-day mission to Europe and the Middle East. She says he will try […]

Washington, 2 February, 2005— President Bush delivered his annual State of the Union address February 2, saying the January 30 elections for Iraq’s national assembly “opens a new phase” of U.S. involvement in the country […]

Washington, 1 February, 2005— Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will visit eight European countries, as well as Israel and the West Bank, February 3–10 with the aim of advancing President Bush’s agenda in cooperation with […]