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...registrations include work on a number of issues that have become flashpoints in the presidential campaign. He has registered to work on bills that deal with the regulations of troubled mortgage lenders Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, a bill to provide farm subsidies and bills that regulate domestic oil-drilling...
Defying expectations of a breakdown in talks, Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai concluded a power-sharing agreement late Thursday night, raising hopes that the country may be moving to end its long political nightmare. "We have a deal," opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Tsvangirai told reporters as he emerged from a meeting with Mugabe and South Africa's President, Thabo Mbeki, who has been mediating the talks. The news was certainly unexpected: Even late Thursday afternoon, Mugabe had been quoted as saying the two sides were far from agreeing on how to share...
...practical people," Welsh says of the Nationalists. "You win hearts and minds by producing policies that help the local need. It's not a question of nationalism or separatism, but showing that we can deal with issues on the ground...
...more powerful. (Tsvangirai's MDC also controls the legislature, having beaten Mugabe's Zanu-PF Party in the parliamentary vote in March.) It was not immediately clear what led to the breakthrough, nor how the balance of power between Mugabe and Tsvangirai will be resolved. Details of the deal are to be released Monday at a formal signing ceremony...
...Mugabe nor Tsvangirai is comfortable granting executive power to the other: the opposition leader demanded fresh elections, which he would be confident of winning if the poll were free and fair, while Mugabe threatened to form a Cabinet without the opposition if Tsvangirai rejected his terms. Shortly before the deal was announced, one source close to the talks had said that Mbeki was on the verge of quitting his mediation role on behalf of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) in frustration. "President Mbeki was fuming, threatening the Zimbabwean leaders that SADC will not be responsible if there is bloodshed...