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Byline: Mark Schoofs Last Thursday, President Biden vowed to make global financial systems more transparent so that individuals and organizations engaged in corruption would find it harder to 'shield their [...]

Last Thursday, President Biden vowed to make global financial systems more transparent so that individuals and organizations engaged in corruption would find it harder to ''shield their activities.'' On the [...]

Rising cocaine consumption in Western Europe has increased the incidence of euro laundering. Consumption in some nations has doubled or even tripled, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. The euro has neared $1.50, making Europe a more lucrative place for drug cartel business.

With 70% of the electorate, President Thabo Mbeki looks to economic politics and government delivery of service to improve the quality of South African life.

Immunologists are studying the possibility of treating AIDS by getting the body's immune system to turn back on.

The South African government has announced it will provide AIDS-drug regimens to patients for free. The nation has the highest population level of HIV infection in the world, with 5.3 million of 45 million people testing positive. Health officials hope the program, if successful, will become a model for treatment.

Laura Silsby and nine fellow missionaries found themselves in a court in Haiti charged with child abduction and criminal association for attempting to take take 33 Haitian children into the Dominican Republic. Silsby has made various attempts to set up group homes and to bring orphaned children to them but has been plagued with business and financial problems. She and her fellow defendants could face as much as twelve years in jail if convicted on both charges.

U.S. Army and Thailand scientists reported a month ago the discovery of an effective HIV vaccine. A second report by AIDS researchers says that the results are not as significant as thought and may be just a fluke.

The leader of South Africa's African national Congress and the country's most-likely next President, Jacob Zuma, maintains that the country will hold to its current foreign policy concerning the repressive regime of Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe and not undertake sanctions. Zuma also said that the country will stick with its current economic policy in light of the global economic troubles.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has donated over one-third of the $15.4 million raised to support Proposition 8 in California, a motion to overturn the present same-sex marriage law.

Merck & Company Inc. cancelled production of its AIDS vaccine after the possibility arose that it may have increased recipients' vulnerability to AIDS virus infections.

Viktor Cherkessov, the head of Russia's drug enforcement agency, said that the U.S. must do more to stop the flow of heroin from Afghanistan. Cherkessov said the U.S. is not using its full resources to stop heroin smuggling from Afghanistan.