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/ 16 May 2006

One year later …

A year after Operation Murambatsvina, the government’s campaign to purge informal settlements, the lives of thousands of affected Zimbabweans have not changed. Uprooted last year from their homes in the capital, Harare, families have been squeezed into tiny living spaces authorised by the government on the outskirts of the city.

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/ 16 May 2006

Tony Blair: defiant and deluded

Striding through the smoke and flames threatening to torch the new Labour project, like a cornered action hero attempting a final comeback, Tony Blair recently showed once again why he is the most resilient politician in Britain. After days of coded revolt from his heir apparent he faced down his party with a powerful performance at his Downing Street press conference and at an evening session with MPs.

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/ 16 May 2006

Bush bans arms sales to Chávez

The United States finally reacted to goading by the Venezuelan President, Hugo Chávez, by slapping a full arms ban on the country on Monday night, claiming it had failed to cooperate in the fight against terrorism. Janelle Hironimus, a State Department spokesperson, said Venezuela had forged close relations with Iran and Cuba, both classified by the US as state sponsors of terrorism.

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/ 15 May 2006

Death toll passes 70 in Brazil’s wave of violence

An unprecedented wave of attacks by a notorious drug gang in South America’s largest city, São Paulo, entered into its fourth day on Monday, with reports of at least 20 more killings that raised the death toll to more than 70. Masked gang members hurled grenades at police stations and sprayed them with automatic weapons over the weekend.

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/ 15 May 2006

Kasrils not ‘summoned’ to appear before SACP

The South African Communist Party has denied intending to ”grill” Minister of Intelligence Ronnie Kasrils on his role in former deputy president Jacob Zuma’s rape trial. The party said on Monday it had noted a newspaper report about Kasrils’ attendance at this weekend’s central committee meeting and wanted to set the record straight.