Robert Mugabe has apparently won his seventh term as President of Zimbabwe. His opponent, Morgan Tsvangirai, claimed that there was significant fraud in the election, but the observers from the African Union asserted that the election was essentially fair. Mugabe is a hero of the liberation of Zimbabwe (once called Rhodesia when it was a British colony), but his leadership in Zimbabwe has been miserably ineffective and corrupt.
As the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations proceed, there are many groups in the US that are well-organized to support different positions on both sides. One of the best organized groups supporting the Israelis are Christian Zionists. About 25% of Christians in the US identify themselves as Christian Zionist–Christians who believe that the establishment of the state of Israel is a precondition for the second coming of Christ. Christian Zionism actually predates Jewish Zionism, and is deeply embedded in American politics.
The Telegraph published some extraordinary pictures of Shanghai: one in 1987 and the other in 2013. The change in China is dramatic and the photographs capture the sweep of the changes brilliantly.
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