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Carter, Annan, Others Refused Entry to Zimbabwe

by: Celean Jacobson, The Associated Press

Former President Jimmy Carter, Kofi Annan and Graca Machele.


Former President Jimmy Carter, Kofi Annan and Nelson Mandela's wife, Graca Machel were refused entry into Zimbabwe to provide aid to the poor.



    Johannesburg, South Africa - Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter said Saturday that he and others planning a humanitarian mission in Zimbabwe had been refused entry to the impoverished African country. »

Obama's grass-roots network.

What Next for Obama's Network?

by: E.J. Dionne Jr., The Washington Post

    While the nation's capital obsesses over Barack Obama's next Cabinet pick, the president-elect's lieutenants are engaged with what may be a more important long-term issue: What will become of Obama's vast grass-roots network?

    Electoral campaigns, like circus tents, quickly disappear after the show is over. But Obama is our first community-organizer president, and he sees the way he got elected as being almost as crucial as the fact that he won. »

A Shiite protest of US-Iraqi security pact.

Sadr Followers Protest Iraqi-US Pact in Huge Rally

by: Adam Ashton, McClatchy Newspapers

    Baghdad - Tens of thousands of followers of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr packed a central Baghdad square Friday, where they protested a U.S.-Iraq security agreement and likened Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to fallen dictator Saddam Hussein.

    Sheik Abdul Hadi al Mohammadawi read a nationalistic speech on behalf of Sadr, urging a rejection of any pacts with the U.S., charging that approving one would infringe on Iraqi sovereignty. »

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