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South African President Thabo Mbeki, center, attends a EU-South Africa Summit, Friday, July 25, 2008, in Bordeaux, south western France. Zimbabwe looked likely to top the agenda of Mbeki's meeting with European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso and French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who holds the rotating EU presidency. JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- The U.S. Embassy in Zimbabwe says the United States is in the process of strengthening sanctions against individual Zimbabweans blamed for deadly electoral violence. Mark Weinberg, an embassy spokesman, says that "proposed new sanctions are under review by the White House and the State Department" and that they would target "individuals we hold responsible for subverting the will of the people of Zimbabwe, people associated with the regime and those responsible for the... [read full story]
