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More pressure on Mugabe as Russia backs sanctions

By Andrew Grice, Political Editor, in Hokkaido The world's richest nations demanded international action to bring an end to Robert Mugabe's rule in Zimbabwe after Russia dramatically agreed to support sanctions against the...

Zimbabwe: Brown uses shock tactics to secure tough sanctions against Mugabe

Gordon Brown yesterday used shock tactics to shame the G8 into backing tough sanctions against Zimbabwe as he showed fellow world leaders a picture of the mutilated body of an opponent of Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF regime. The...

Simon Tisdall: Brown loses on points to Medvedev

If it had been boxing, the encounter would have been deemed a mismatch. Dmitry Medvedev, a young, fit-looking 42, freshly elected in a (stage-managed) landslide, feisty and full of beans versus Gordon Brown, 57, veteran of a...

UN move against Mugabe nears

ft.com     5 hrs ago   23 related          

By George Parker in Toyako and Harvey Morris at the United Nations The United Nations Security Council could impose sanctions against Robert Mugabe’s regime in Zimbabwe by the end of the week, the US ambassador to the world...

Russia joins call for curbs on Mugabe regime

ft.com     3 hrs ago   7 related          

By George Parker in Toyako and Harvey Morris at the,United Nations Robert Mugabe's regime in Zimbabwe last night faced a growing likelihood of global sanctions after world leaders, including Russia, backed international action...

Mugabe 'ready for unity government'

channel4.com     2 hrs ago   9 related          

Last Modified: 09 Jul 2008 Source: PA News Zimbabwe's foreign minister says President Robert Mugabe is ready to form a unity government with opposition party members. But Simbarashe Mumbengegwi remained vague on the role that...

Johann Hari: What sort of freedom do you believe in?

independent.co.uk     6 hrs ago          

In a lush patch of Yorkshire, something strange is happening. The quaint practice of a British by-election has thrown up a serious philosophical debate about what it means to be free. Sure, to get to it, you have to jostle past...

Hotel Rwanda: Robin Philpots ok

“The genocide in Rwanda was 100 percent the responsibility of the Americans!” Those are not the words of a political leader who has been marginalized like Robert Mugabe or a Fidel Castro. Nor are they the words of a nostalgic...

UN supports African mediation efforts on Zimbabwe issue

xinhuanet.com     9 hrs ago   9 related          

UNITED NATIONS, July 8 (Xinhua) -- UN Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro said Tuesday that the world body supports the mediation efforts taken by regional groups in Africa to address the Zimbabwe issue. Migiro, who just...

Bush's Blood-Orgy in Somalia

"Land is not our priority. Our priority is the people's peace, dignity and liberty. It is the people that are important to us." Sheikh Sharif Ahmed, Head of the Islamic Courts Union (ICU) While George Bush was busy railing at...

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