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S.Africa mediators see progress in Zimbabwe talks

AFP - 1 hour 10 minutes ago

South African mediators Friday said progress has been made in talks between the rival parties of Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai.

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Rights under growing threat in China: analysts
AFP via Yahoo! News - Tue Dec 8, 7:05 pm ET
Human rights are increasingly under threat in China, according to a British firm which analyses dangers for business worldwide, while also describing risks in Russia, Nigeria and India as extreme.
Bull in a China Shop: The False Pretense of Iraqi Democracy
The Mass Media - Tue Dec 8, 6:44 pm ET
The war in Iraq was not about spreading democracy, as it was about bringing down a dictatorship build on war crimes and fear. President George W. Bush said on the deck of the Abraham Lincoln Navy flight deck that the images of the falling statues represented a new era of peace and liberty would make Iraq safer and help fight the war on Iraq, It was security that was important.
Review At The Movies
Mid-South Horse Review - Tue Dec 8, 4:09 pm ET
Author and film producer Rupert Issacson chats with Review folks about his film prior to the screening. (Photo by Debbie Glenn) Isaacson at the booksigning.
Charles Oliver & Jamie Horvat: Hit the Books & Study the Balance Sheets
Kitco.com - Tue Dec 8, 3:53 pm ET
The devil will be in the details of the balance sheet when hyperinflation hits. And while lots of companies have been using leverage to drive their ROE (and their stock prices), the structure of their debt may spell the difference between prospering and perishing.
ZIMBABWE: Improving but still fragile
IRIN - Tue Dec 8, 3:45 pm ET
JOHANNESBURG, 8 December 2009 (IRIN) - The humanitarian community in Zimbabwe, taking a cautiously optimistic approach, has appealed for US$378 million dollars to buy food and medicines, and bolster health, education, sanitation and access to safe water in 2010 - half the amount requested in 2009.
Zimbabwean party suspends three
UPI - Tue Dec 8, 1:34 pm ET
HARARE, Zimbabwe, Dec. 8 (UPI) -- Three members of Zimbabwe's Movement for Democratic Change have been accused by the party of corruption and inciting violence, officials said.
ZIMBABWE: Survival farming
IRIN - Tue Dec 8, 11:45 am ET
CHIVI, 8 December 2009 (IRIN) - Poor farmers in the dusty village of Mandamabwe, in Masvingo Province, southeastern Zimbabwe, have resorted to a groundbreaking activity to salvage what they can of their 2010 harvest.
Annan calls for faster election reform to prevent violence in Kenya
EARTHtimes.org - Tue Dec 8, 11:31 am ET
Nairobi - Former United Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan urged Kenya's leaders Tuesday to quicken the pace of reforms considered crucial to avoid a repeat of the violence that followed disputed presidential elections in December 2007. Annan broke...
The Psychology of Social Status
Scientific American - Tue Dec 8, 9:18 am ET
Nobel Laureate economist, John Harsanyi, said that “apart from economic payoffs, social status seems to be the most important incentive and motivating force of social behavior.” The more noticeable status disparities are, the more concerned with status people become, and the differences between the haves and have-nots have been extremely pronounced during the economic recession of recent years ...
Jordan's king condemns Baghdad bombings
EARTHtimes.org - Tue Dec 8, 8:32 am ET
Amman - Jordan's King Abdullah II on Tuesday condemned a series of bombings that rocked Baghdad earlier in the day and killed over 100 people as acts of terrorism, according to a royal court statement. In a message to the Iraqi President Jalal Tala...