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...West is not the world, and elsewhere smoking is exploding. In China, 350 million adults are hooked on tobacco, which means the country has more smokers than the U.S. has people. Smoking rates in Indonesia have quintupled since 1970. In Russia, boys as young as 10 start lighting up. This year, tobacco companies will produce more than 5 trillion cigarettes - or 830 for every person on the planet...
...Tsvangirai succeeds in having sanctions on Mugabe lifted, that will simply strengthen his rival's argument that the reason Zimbabwe's economy has collapsed is because of "evil sanctions" imposed by the West...
Tsvangirai, now the country's Prime Minister, went on a three-week tour to the U.S. and Europe last month, making every effort to push the idea that there is unity of purpose within the government, and asking the West to lift targeted sanctions on Mugabe and his cronies, as well as to provide...
Under these circumstances it would be very unwise for the donor countries to lift their targeted sanctions against Mugabe and his lieutenants. The democratic world must compel Mugabe to honor his agreements with the opposition. The West must also use its aid as leverage to ensure that the government opens up democratic space for Zimbabweans. A specific roadmap must be developed demanding that the government deliver rule of law, freedom of the media and a new people-driven constitution with an enforceable bill of rights. Mugabe's militia units must be dismantled, and a new independent electoral commission...
...proceed with a residential project in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in East Jerusalem, noting that the U.S. views such construction in the same light as settlement expansion. But while the Netanyahu government may be willing to dismantle some of the settlement outposts built without permission in the West Bank (they're usually rebuilt by settlers within days), the Prime Minister made clear on Sunday that "Israel will not agree to edicts of this kind in East Jerusalem...