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John Paul II's coffin brought out

Fri, 29 Apr 2011 15:11:00 -0700

BBC News - Apr. 29 - 29 April 2011 Last updated at 11:11 ET Workers paused for prayers before removing the coffin The Vatican has removed Pope John Paul II's coffin from its crypt in St Peter's Basilica ahead of his beatification on Sunday. The wooden coffin is to be placed

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Shock as SA 'rape victim' charged

Thu, 18 Nov 2010 14:03:10 -0800

BBC News - Nov. 18 - South African rights groups have expressed shock at a decision to charge a 15-year-old alleged gang-rape victim with having underage sex. The girl was charged with statutory rape along with her alleged rapists, who are aged 14 and 16. The alleged rape

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Op-Ed Columnist: Young Superheroes in a Hut

Sun, 11 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Nicholas D. Kristof - Apr. 11 (Opinion) - Zimbabwe is an example of what happens when bad leaders govern great countries.

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Op-Ed Columnist: Postcard From Zimbabwe

Thu, 08 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Nicholas D. Kristof - Apr. 08 (Opinion) - Nicholas Kristof addresses reader feedback and posts short takes from his travels. Here’s a measure of how President Robert Mugabe is destroying this once lush nation of Zimbabwe: In a week of surreptitious reporting here (committing journalism can

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To save Zimbabwe, South Africa must step up

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Christian Science Monitor - By John Hughes - Dec. 19 (Opinion) - Once one of the most beautiful and bountiful lands in Africa, Zimbabwe is fast becoming the worst disaster on the continent since Rwanda and Darfur.

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Why Beijing is standing by its basket-case friends

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Daily Telegraph - By Richard Spencer - Jul. 16 (Opinion) - ... China opposes attempts to bring Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir to justice over his government's crimes in Darfur; nor that its United Nations ambassador is happy to block, block and block again any motion that might hold President Robert Mugabe to account for Zimbabwe's election fiasco.

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Mugabe Betrays African Dreams

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Chicago Tribune - By Clarence Page - Jul. 06 (Opinion) - More than 80 known victims were killed in the run-up to Mugabe's June 27 sham of a reelection. The carnage and intimidation have not stopped. The country's economy is a wreck. It takes millions of Zimbabwean dollars to buy a loaf of bread, and the prices go up every half hour or so. As many as 80 percent of the workers are unemployed. Peaceful sleep is a luxury.

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What will it take to save Zimbabwe?

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Vanity Fair - By Alexandra Fuller - Jun. 28 (Opinion) - All seems lost, international spectator fatigue has set in. But I would argue that this is a country worth saving, not only because it is the only moral choice, but because Zimbabwe is traditionally and strategically important to the stability of the whole of southern Africa. Every day that Mugabe is allowed to continue his regime is a day of healing lost to the country and the region. Escalating instability here can and will have a profound effect on our ever enmeshed global community.

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Democracy for Africa

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - By Justice Malala - Apr. 08 (Opinion) - the achievements of a handful of leaders and countries such as Mr. Mogae's Botswana are undermined by strongmen like Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe.

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From King to Mugabe

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Opinion Journal (WSJ) - By Bret Stephens - Apr. 08 (Opinion) - Mr. Mugabe's accolades from Western intelligentsia - he also received honorary doctorates from Michigan State in 1990 and the University of Edinburgh in 1984 - are worth recalling as Americans memorialize the 40th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination. Morally, philosophically and politically, King and Mr. Mugabe stand at opposite ends of a spectrum, the former a champion of liberalism's best convictions, the latter of the totalitarian impulse inherent in the politics of "liberation." So how is it that so many of the same people - liberals, "progressives," the bien pensant - who see themselves as heirs of King's legacy were, until fairly recently, Mr. Mugabe's fellow travelers, excuse-makers and apologists-in-crime?

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Zimbabwe's razor edge

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Morgan Tsvangirai - Apr. 07 (Opinion) - ...democracy is an orphan in Zimbabwe...Adept at stealing elections from the hands of voters, Mugabe is now amassing government troops; blocking court proceedings where we have attempted to seek an order simply for the electoral commission to release the final tally of the March 29 poll; raiding the offices of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC); and casting a pall of suppression and gloom over the country. The feared militias, made up of misguided activists and the same war veterans who pushed for and benefited from the disastrous land confiscations from the late 1990s, are being mobilised.

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