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...company owner can treat Sunday like any other day of the week. "This is only putting a bit of order in a confused situation, and is in no manner a change to [our] model of civilization," the bill's sponsor, Labor Minister Xavier Darcos, promised senators going into their vote in the wee hours of July 23. "If the goal of this text were to generalize work on Sundays, I'd never have backed it." (See pictures of President Obama in France...
History is repeating itself with equally tragic results. Since a new opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), emerged in 1999, Mugabe has again terrorized those who dare to vote against him. In September last year the MDC, led by Morgan Tsvangirai, felt compelled to sign a document called the Global Political Agreement that saw it join Mugabe's government. So far, the deal has been more honored in the breach than the observance by Mugabe. (Read "Can Zimbabwe's Shotgun Marriage Work...
...Abyei region reduces its size by more than a third. The new borders award several major oil fields to the north Sudanese government of President Omar al-Bashir but also make it more likely that the region will become part of south Sudan when the people of Abyei vote on their future in 2011. (See pictures of Darfur descending into chaos...
...This means that when Abyei holds its referendum in 2011 on whether to join the north or the south, it will more likely go to the south - Arabs are allied with the north, while the Dinka tribesmen who make up the rest of Abyei's population will almost certainly vote to join the south. (Read "Why There Should Be More Oil Speculation, Not Less...
...step. The north and south still disagree on a host of other issues. South Sudanese are losing faith in their own leaders, who are seen as corrupt. And looming in the background are nationwide elections in 2010 and then a 2011 referendum - to be held concurrently with the Abyei vote - in which south Sudanese will decide whether to remain a part of Sudan or become a separate country...