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...offered little prospect of hope for Tsvangirai and a fair power-sharing agreement. President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa was never an impartial mediator. Mbeki and Mugabe have been called close allies, and a source at the recent South African Development Community (SADC) summit negotiations said Mbeki will not stand up to Mugabe. Mbeki has supported Mugabe’s control over ministry appointments. According to the Zimbabwe Independent, Tsvangirai listed to the SADC examples showing that Mbeki could not act “fairly and impartially...
There's a code that everyone understands when you're traveling, the unspoken semantics of road sex. If you take a musician home with you after the gig, you can't expect anything except a good time. Nobody goes into a one-night stand expecting to fall in love - though it happens...
...that one-night stand turned into something more. But you're single...
...training grounds and looked the other way when Osama bin Laden made the country a base for his terrorist network. Many Kashmiri militants were trained in his camps as part of the global jihad. As long as there was a sympathetic regime in Afghanistan, Pakistan believed, it could stand up to India, its more powerful neighbor to the east. (See pictures of how the Afghan war is portrayed...
...Stand aside, Joe Biden. The American Vice President-elect may have made a few verbal missteps during the campaign, but the title of Prince of Gaffe belongs unassailably Silvio Berlusconi. Last week's election victory of Barack Obama and his garrulous running mate offered the Italian Prime Minister another chance to prove he is the world leader with the loosest lips. Speaking in Moscow alongside Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, Berlusconi flashed a Cheshire-cat grin as he listed the reasons that Obama would be an effective leader: "He's young, handsome, and even has a good tan." (See pictures...