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...about his plans for the "alternative ministry." "I just want to be systematic, methodical, think it through, talk to my colleagues," Rudd said. "I think that's the right thing to do. John Howard would do the same thing." To vaunt his own authority, Rudd recently convened a national summit on climate change and invited miners, scientists, environmentalists and policy makers to confer. A stunt? Yes. But the coverage helped widen his lead on what Labor argues is the great moral issue...
...peak baggers wanting to summit, overnight treks can be arranged up the Djebel Toubkal. On our final day we opted for an easier vista onto a vast mountain desert bowl, before returning to lunch at Samra, a candlelit guest douar (Berber dwelling) run by an energetic Swiss woman and a local female staff. The vegetable tagine and coriander-spiced eggplant was outstanding. Six hours later, I was back in Paris, my boots still spattered with mud, my hands smelling faintly of rose water...
...Zimbabwe's privations, Mugabe's hold on power seems unlikely to slip anytime soon. On my first day in jail, a heads-of-government Southern African Development Community summit met in Tanzania. In its ranks were other veterans of the fight against colonialism, like South African President Thabo Mbeki, many of whose supporters sympathize with Mugabe's demonization of the West as racist. Despite worldwide calls for censure, the conference refused to condemn Mugabe's leadership and affirmed Zimbabwe's right to noninterference. Mbeki was asked to act as mediator between the government and the opposition, but Mbeki told...
...their videotape and jailed video blogger Josh Wolf was set free after serving nearly 8 months in federal prison, longer than any other journalist in the U.S., for failing to testify before a grand jury and for refusing to hand over unpublished video he shot during an anti-G8 Summit protest in San Francisco in July 2005, where one police officer was struck in the head with a pipe. Wolf posted some of the demontration's video on his blog, and some clips were aired on local newscasts, but the prosecutors demanded to see everything that wasn't made public...
...tempting to dismiss Abdullah's summit rhetoric as playing to the gallery, but the Washington Post reports that Abdullah has also cancelled his attendance at a White House state dinner planned in his honor next month. It wasn't so long ago that Bush and Abdullah were practically love birds, holding hands as they walked past news cameras during Abdullah's last visit to the U.S. in 2005. For better or worse, they may increasingly be going their separate ways...