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Zimbabweans urged to return
June 21, 2009
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England
LONDON - Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai of Zimbabwe has a message for the diaspora - come home. Tsvangirai, who reluctantly joined President Robert Mugabe in a power-sharing deal February, made the appeal to exiles in a London church yesterday but was forced off the stage by protesters who want Mugabe to step down. Tsvangirai later returned to the stage after church officials calmed the crowd of about 1,000 people. (AP)Bodies of hostages returned by Iraq
LONDON - The British government said yesterday that the bodies thought to be those of two hostages kidnapped in 2007 have been handed over to UK forces in Iraq. Foreign Secretary David Miliband said in a televised statement that “late last night we received the bodies of two hostages.’’ Miliband said the bodies had not been formally identified but “our immediate thoughts are clearly with the families’’ of five British men kidnapped by Shi’ite militants two years ago. Forensic tests are being conducted to identify the bodies, Miliband said. (AP)Syria
Abbas discusses Palestinian unity
DAMASCUS - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas yesterday discussed efforts to achieve Palestinian reconciliation with President Bashar al-Assad of Syria. “We agree with Syria that the dialogue should succeed,’’ Abbas’s aide, Nabil Abu Rdainah, said. He was referring to Egyptian mediation between Abbas’s Fatah faction and Hamas, which is supported by Syria and Iran. Egypt has set July 7 as a deadline to find a solution for divisions between the two groups. (Reuters)
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