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...after fighting between the Iraqi government and Shi'ite militias escalated alarmingly, anti-American militia chieftain Moqtada al-Sadr extended an olive branch. On Sunday Sadr told members of his militia to stop appearing in the streets with weapons and to halt their attacks on government institutions...
...targeted militiamen in Basra, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said that the government's enemies in the south were "worse than al-Qaeda." A Sadrist spokesman then retorted that fighters should not surrender their weapons except to a government committed to ejecting U.S. troops from Iraq. But on Sunday, Sadr, in a statement released through his office in the holy city of Najaf, called on his followers to stop making "armed appearances." He said he hoped to avoid more bloodshed. This week's violence has claimed hundreds of lives in Basra, Baghdad and elsewhere...
...television, an Iraqi government spokesman hailed the announcement as a "positive statement," but it was not yet clear Sunday evening if militants would stand down. Throughout the afternoon and into the evening rockets or mortars continued to sail into the heavily fortified Baghdad headquarters of the U.S. embassy and the Iraqi government. A spokesman for the British military said that Iraqi requests for U.S. and British support in Basra had subsided but confirmed that more U.S. air strikes had been launched on Sunday...
...Harare press conference Sunday, M.D.C. secretary general Tendai Biti announced, on the basis of predominantly urban results already in, a sweeping vote for his party, which is led by former trade unionist Morgan Tsvangirai. "We have won this election," said Biti. "The trend is irreversible." He said he was passing on results already posted publicly at local polling stations. Before announcing results Monday morning, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission, which will collate the vote centrally, has demanded the police arrest those announcing regional results before it announces the national result. "Can you arrest someone because he is just repeating what...
...Sadr's offer of peace on Sunday followed a much harsher statement against Maliki's government just a day earlier...