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...families of Regev and Goldwasser also kept up a steady campaign in Israel and abroad, pressing Olmert for action on the return of the two soldiers. On Sunday, after the cabinet announced that it would exchange prisoners with Hizballah, Olmert met personally with the Regev and Goldwasser families, who expressed their approval of the cabinet decision and said they expected a swift conclusion to the deal. Israeli leaders are hoping to oblige the families, but the timing is now up to Hizballah chief Hassan Nasrallah, who may drag the process out for weeks, or even months, say Israelis. Olmert...
...economy is in free fall and its people increasingly dependent on food aid? Not too much, it seemed on Friday, when U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, speaking at the G8 foreign ministers conclave in Kyoto, vowed to bring the matter up at the U.N. Security Council. No decisive action ought to be expected from that forum, in which China has long shown itself willing to wield its veto to prevent economic sanctions against its African trading partners (of which Zimbabwe is one). Statements of outrage from European governments were scarcely more specific, although British officials said they planned...
...those heady days: the U.S. war on terror gave intervention a bad name by associating it with big-power unilateralism; the crises got bigger - genocide in Darfur, famine in North Korea, a cyclone in Burma. Global competition also worked against global unity: China, for instance, blocked U.N. Security Council action against Sudan over Darfur to protect is oil concessions. Zimbabwe may have repugnant rulers, but it also has a consistent and grateful ally in South African President Thabo Mbeki and his fight against Western hegemony. Additionally, Harare has the world's second largest deposits of platinum, which assists its friendship...
...emissions four decades in the future is virtually meaningless. But for years many developed nations - most significantly but not solely the U.S. - have been reluctant to fix themselves to carbon caps while major developing nations remain unbound to any commitments. China and India, however, refuse to consider carbon-cutting action that could slow their exploding economic growth. Hence the climate deadlock - an appropriate word - the former Prime Minister has set himself to break. "Now is the moment to get serious about a solution," Blair said in a speech Friday. "Such a solution has to be global...
...solution?" In a way, Blair is right. From San Antonio to Shanghai, ordinary people, business leaders and politicians are worried about climate change. They're afraid, and they want something done about it. Even the long recalcitrant U.S. has come around, with both presidential candidates supporting significant climate action (though Democratic Senator Barack Obama promises to go much further), and states like California stepping ahead of the curve. What remains to be done is simply punching through an equitable climate deal for the world, then letting the magic of energy efficiency, renewable power and avoided deforestation take...