by Gregory Katz

LONDON (AP)—Tentative links are developing between supporters of the Tea Party movement in the United States and right-wing fringe groups in Britain that are opposed to what they call the “Islamification” of Europe.

CLASH WITH POLICE—A man is bitten by a police dog as police clash with EDL supporters in Leicester, central England, Oct 9. (AP Photo/Rui Vieria/PA)

The movements are not formally aligned, but the relatively new English Defense League—which warns that Islamic fundamentalism will soon engulf Britain—is seeking guidance and inspiration from some U.S. figures taking a similar stance.

The British activists are less drawn to the anti-tax, anti-big-government Tea Party message and more attracted to elements taking an active stance against the spread of Islam, like Rabbi Nachum Shifren, a long-shot Republican candidate for the California state legislature who plans to visit England next week. The trip was organized by Roberta Moore, an English Defense League activist who has formed a “Jewish division” of the group. She said the rabbi will speak at an Oct. 24 rally in London.

by Angus Shaw

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP)—Zimbabwe’s president on Sept. 30 told foreign investors that they must accept Black Zimbabweans as the major shareholders in their projects—or stay away from the southern African nation.

FIERY SPEECH—Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe delivers his speech at the National Heroes Acre in Harare, Sept. 30. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)

Strict empowerment laws scheduled for phased enforcement over the next five years require Black Zimbabweans to control 51 percent of each business.

by Godfrey Olukya

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) —If Ugandan police investigators are right, the size of the conspiracy behind the twin bombings during July’s World Cup finals could hardly have been bigger.

Ugandan police—with help from the FBI and Kenyan police—have arrested 36 people from seven countries in the wake of blasts that rocked Uganda’s capital, killing 76 people.

PLANS TO SUE—Top Kenyan human rights lawyer Mbugua Mureithi says he plans to sue the American FBI after being unlawfully detained by Ugandan authorities and accusing American authorities of directing his detention, over the July 2010 bomb attacks that killed 76 people who were watching live TV showing the World Cup final played in South Africa. (AP Photo/Khalil Senosi)

The suspects hail from at least three countries with known terror links: Somalia, Yemen and Pakistan. At least one suspect said he was recruited and trained by al-Qaida. The Somali militant group that claimed responsibility for the blast, al-Shabab, has known links with the international terror group.

(NNPA/GIN)—All South Africans will enjoy national health insurance under a program scheduled to kick off in 2011 and be implemented during a period of 14 years.

Details of the program were discussed recently at the mid-term conference of the African National Congress.

Thousands are attending the week-long review of the party’s progress in the port city of Durban which featured health care high on the agenda.