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...week-long negotiations, meant to craft the beginnings of a new global effort on climate change, had already gone into overtime when diplomats emerged from behind closed doors at 2 AM Saturday morning, claiming that a compromise deal between the EU, the U.S. and the major developing nations had been reached. Delegates from some 190 nations reconvened several hours later for what should have been a final approval session...
President Pervez Musharraf lifted Pakistan's state of emergency Saturday, but the move was less momentous than it sounded: leading members of the judiciary remain under house arrest, restrictions on reporters are still in place, and the country is headed for an early January poll that many opposition activists and political observers fear will be rigged. Musharraf declared emergency rule six weeks ago, just as the Supreme Court was about to decide whether his election to another term as President was legal. The President, who came to power in a bloodless military coup in 1999 and finally stood down...
...race for the leadership of South Africa reached a fever pitch on Saturday, the eve of a decisive ruling party conference, as state investigators filed revised allegations of corruption against the leading contender...
...News broke on Saturday that the Directorate of Special Operations filed papers Friday in the Constitutional Court opposing Jacob Zuma's attempts to set aside an earlier judgment disallowing its evidence against him. Those papers included an affidavit which read: "The extent and gravity of the charges has grown... The payments based on the old and the new evidence are therefore more than three times greater than those based on the old evidence alone." The charges concern allegations that Zuma was involved in the payments of bribes by French arms company Thint during a 2000 deal...
...nominations from A.N.C. branch parties gave Zuma, the party's deputy president, a crushing lead over the incumbent, Thabo Mbeki, who is currently President of both the party and the country. An Ipsos Markinor Socio-Political Trends survey of 3,500 people taken in November and released on Saturday also showed 41% of South Africans think Zuma should succeed Mbeki as leader of their nation in 2009, when the constitution requires him to step down...