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...meantime, the Prime Minister acknowledges Haitians' growing ire over a perceived lack of government leadership on their broken streets. Préval, whose presidency ends next year, has come under sharp criticism for his remote and lackluster example during the catastrophe. Bellerive, who took office in October, has as a result become more of a focus for Haitians and foreigners alike - including Haitian Americans, viewed as critical to the rebuilding effort, who began arriving en masse on Friday after commercial flights resumed service into Port-au-Prince's Toussaint Louverture airport...
...Sudan's other great unresolved conflict - between Khartoum and the south of the country - another kind of election, a referendum, on whether to secede from the north, is due next year. The north and the south have fought two wars in the last half-century that have killed 2 million people, and an overwhelming majority of southerners are expected to opt for their own independent state. The approaching reality of that separation seems to have persuaded Sudan to accept what previously provoked them into war. Last month, Bashir announced that if the south did vote...
Polls show strong public backing for a withdrawal and for the Labor Party's stance. But the real victors in the next elections could end up being smaller parties at the fringes of mainstream politics, with polls indicating that the anti-immigrant Freedom Party of Geert Wilders might take second place. Wilders has described Islam as a fascist religion and has called for the banning of the Koran and a halt on immigration from Muslim countries - all policies likely to create new frictions with the Muslim world and even alienate the Netherlands from its European allies. If Wilders were...
...American firms are late to the scramble for the country's riches. If they look out their hotel windows, they will see crews from Korean, Turkish and Italian companies building luxury seaside towers, including an Intercontinental Hotel; a Starwood Four Points and a Marriott hotel are scheduled to open next year. U.S. businesses are not expected to seal any deals this week; with few contacts, they are focusing on just breaking the ice with Libyans. "This is a get-to-know-Libya trip," says Gene Cretz, the first U.S. ambassador to Libya since the 1970s. "There has been estrangement...
...Geneva. Libyan and European officials are working frantically to resolve the conflict, but the European visa ban meant the U.S. execs arrived to a nearly empty hotel. (Among the few other hotel guests this weekend was Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, in town to meet Gaddafi in advance of next month's Arab League summit in Tripoli...