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Zimbabwe Launches Recount in Parliamentary Election

Zimbabwe is to recount votes for 23 out of 110 seats in the parliamentary election, a move which has caused suspicions over just how impartial, the impartial elections commission is, especially after it was Mugabe's Zanu-PF who asked for the recount having lost their majority in the assembly.The opposition Movement for Democratic Change's secretary general Tendai Biti says the party will not accept the recount, as the "ballot boxes have been stuffed"....Read More

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U.S-Russia Relations: Are We Heading for World War III

As U.S. President Bush meets with President Putin in Russia in an attempt to repair relations between the two countries, after Bush's plans to put a radar guided missile system in two soviet satellite states has took us far too close to another cold-war scenario, I want to make my feelings on the matter clear. The mainstream media, when it does mention the chances of a US attack on Iran, fails to mention the likelihood of China and Russia backing...Read More

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Israeli Moves To Provoke Fresh Palestinian Violence

Despite the fact that there have been very few (if any) Palestinian rockets landing in Israeli territory over the past few days, four Israeli tanks rolled into central Gaza in a pre-dawn raid and killed two Hamas members. This on top of new Israeli plans to build yet more settler homes in East Jerusalem, which has, is and will prompt massive anger within Palestinians, Muslims, Arabs, liberals and anyone else with a thread of decency around the world....Read More

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Hilary Clinton's Embellishment Will Destroy her Image

I can't imagine anything more embarrassing than what Hilary Clinton has been making the headlines for. She said Monday that she landed in Bosnia in 1996 under sniper fire, the claim has made Clinton a figure of American ridicule as the real footage of her arrival shows something far less dramatic. The story had become something of a Chinese whisper, getting more and more dramatic and further from the truth each time she told it, which is a lot because...Read More

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Osama Bin Laden Threatens Retaliation on Europe for Muhammed Cartoons

In the latest Osama Bin Laden audio message released Mar 19 by Al-Shab, which the Washington Post calls "Al-Qaeda's media arm", Bin Laden threatens Europe with retaliation for the cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad. The original 12 cartoons, published by Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten in 2006, brought massive protests throughout the Muslim world, ironic as the cartoons depicted Muhammad leading protests throughout the Muslim world. The cartoons...Read More