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Were they alive? No proof of life was ever given by Hizballah. And a medical report carried out a week after the ambush stated that in all likelihood, the two soldiers probably died of wounds soon after they were captured. Even with that grim knowledge, Israeli pressed ahead with the war, in a fruitless attempt to crush the Lebanese militia. When the war ended, Israel began in earnest to seek Regev and Goldwasser's return, even if that meant collecting two coffins...
...Zimbabwe's worsening humanitarian crisis in the coming years will be a deepening political one, analysts predict. Pretoria-based Zimbabwe expert Chris Maroleng, of the International Institute of Strategic Studies, describes the three months since the first round of voting on March 29 - in which Tsvangirai came out ahead, but without the outright majority that would have ruled out a runoff - as a creeping military coup. The army, police and government-sponsored militias have fanned out across the country, killing, beating and displacing opposition supporters, wresting control of the media, electoral bodies and the judiciary and refusing to cede power...
That campaign of state intimidation will continue in the months ahead, says Maroleng. "After the poll, we will see a consolidation of the military junta's control of the organs of state. They have seized the state, and now they will want to stamp out any opposition to their rule." Facing a future of worsening poverty and harassment, millions more Zimbabweans are expected to flee their homeland. An estimated fifth to a quarter of the original population of 13 million are now refugees...
...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 us to a low-carbon world. It's a framework that Blair and the Climate Group...
...chance that the North Pole could be briefly ice-free this summer, an astonishing possibility. The longer you spend reporting on climate change, the less likely it seems that our political systems are capable of crafting a commensurate response. Maybe we lack the ability to plan so far in ahead. In the U.S., the talk today is of gas prices, not global warming, and the first serious attempt at a federal carbon cap recently went fell in an embarrassing defeat in the Senate. Present fears overwhelm us, something Blair should know well - his Gleneagles G8 summit in 2005 was meant...