by Arthur Max

AMSTERDAM (AP)—Supermodel Naomi Campbell, who has been avoiding international prosecutors for the past year, will be forced to appear on the witness stand in the war crimes trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor.

In a ruling published July 1, judges of the Special Court for Sierra Leone ordered a subpoena served on Campbell and if necessary to enlist the help of law enforcement agencies wherever she is found to make sure she gets to court.

SUMMONED—In this May 20 file photo, Naomi Campbell arrives for the amfAR Cinema Against AIDS benefit, during the 63rd Cannes international film festival, in Cap d’Antibes, southern France.

The appearance of Campbell, as well as of actress Mia Farrow and the model’s former agent Carole White, who do not appear to have resisted testifying, will add a touch of glitz to a case already seen as a landmark, the first time a former African head of state has been put on trial by an international court.

(NNPA/GIN)—Recruited voluntarily or by force, child soldiers (boys and girls under the age of 18) are fighting in more than 30 conflicts worldwide—as combatants, messengers, porters, cooks or for sexual services.

The north African nation of Chad, with 450,000 displaced people in its eastern areas, is beset with child soldiers fighting for both government and rebel forces.

by Veronika Oleksyn

VIENNA (AP)—An Austrian judge sent the case of a Black American mistaken for a drug dealer and tackled by an undercover policeman to a higher court June 24, saying the matter was too serious to be handled by a district court.

After a day of testimony from both sides and an expert witness, Judge Margaretha Richter decided she had no jurisdiction to rule in the case. It now goes to a provincial court.

ASSAULTED—U.S. citizen Mike Brennan, 34, from Jacksonville, Fla., enters the courtroom in Vienna, Austria, June 24.

The undercover policeman, who could not be identified under Austrian law, pleaded not guilty to assault but acknowledged that he used force to floor 36-year-old Mike Brennan in a Vienna subway station Feb. 11, 2009.

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP)—Retired Archbishop Desmond Tutu said South Africans should take a moment to congratulate themselves on being the first nation on the continent to host the World Cup—and then turn to building on the good will and good publicity the tournament has generated.

DESMOND TUTU

At a news conference in Cape Town June 21, Tutu said international broadcasts from the the main event of the world’s most popular sport, have cast the nation in a good light and will boost its tourism industry.

Almost from the moment in 2004 it won the bid to host the World Cup, South Africa has faced questions whether a nation with high crime and poverty rates could host such an event.