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US to reward Zimbabwe progress
AlP, Cape Town
The United States will reward efforts by Zimbabwe's leaders to pave the way toward free elections, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said yesterday.
"Here in Africa, the international community has made it clear that the people of Zimbabwe deserve the right to have their voices and votes counted in a free and fair election," Clinton said in a speech at a CapeTown university.
She urged regional leaders -- including the Zimbabwe mediator, South African President Jacob Zuma -- to push for a recently approved draft constitution to go to the vote that would allow new polls
Belarus expels Swedish diplomats
AFP, Stockholm
Sweden's ties with Belarus soured further yesterday as Minsk expelled all Swedish diplomats and closed its mission in Stockholm, five days after the exSoviet state expelled the Swedish ambassador.
European Union ambassadors will hold an emergency meeting Friday on the issue, an EU source in Brussels said.
Bildt last week said ambassador Stefan Eriksson, who took up the post in Minsk in 2008, was expelled because of his pro-rights stance and meetings he
France heads back into recession
AFP, Paris
France is headed back into recession for the second lime in three years, its central bank warned Wednesday in a fresh blow to the recovery prospects of the stricken eurozone.
In a gloomy survey of the outlook for Europe's second biggest economy, the Bank of France predicted a 0.1 percent contraction in gross domestic product (GDP) for the third quarter of this year.
France emerged from its last recession -- defined by economists as two consecutive quarters of nega-
Iraq attacks kill 19
AFP,Baghdad
A car bomb targeting Shia pilgrims in Iraq and the shooting of a lawyer and his family left 19 people dead yesterday, after al-Qaeda warned it would target lawyers and retake territory in a new campaign.
The attacks were the latest in an apparent spike in unrest since the beginning of the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan, bringing to 88 the number