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Zimbabwe's president goes back to court on polls
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) ? Zimbabwe's highest court said Wednesday it has received an application from longtime President Robert Mugabe's party to delay crucial elections by at least two weeks following pressure from regional leaders.
Mugabe has insisted he is merely abiding by a previous court order in holding general elections on July 31. Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, a longtime Mugabe foe and opposition leader, wants the vote to be held in September.
Zimbabwe's last elections in 2008 were plagued by violence and ultimately forced Mugabe to join a power-sharing government with the opposition.
Officials at the Constitutional Court say the papers submitted by Mugabe's party ask the court to review the earlier ruling that called for a vote before the end of July.
The move comes days after southern African regional leaders met in Mozambique and pushed for an extension until Aug. 14 so that key electoral reforms and poll preparations can take place.
Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa said in the papers filed at the constitutional court that he was directed by a summit of the regional presidents in Mozambique to file an urgent application to postpone the elections and asked for an extension to Aug. 14, court officials said.
Tomaz Salomao, secretary-general of the 15-nation regional, political and economic bloc known as the Southern African Development Community, or SADC, said Tuesday the presidents had urged Mugabe and all political groups to heed their concerns over early elections. He said the SADC grouping pledged to recognize any new decision by Zimbabwe's highest court.
"If the court does not accept the appeal our task is to deploy our observers to ensure there is at least a conducive environment for elections," he said.
Tsvangirai insists new elections can be called as late as October under the nation's new constitution to allow time for democratic reforms spelled out in both the power-sharing coalition agreement and the constitution to be put into place to pave the way for a free and fair vote.
His party says a two-week extension is still inadequate to complete reforms to sweeping media and security laws, and changes in the police, military and security services traditionally loyal to Mugabe to ensure their impartiality.
Mugabe declared the July poll date on June 13, saying he was obeying the ruling of the Constitutional Court that linked the need for elections to a month after the automatic dissolution of the Harare parliament at the end of its current five-year term on June 28.
His announcement on the voting date meant the drafting of amendments to long-standing elections laws were frozen on legal and procedural grounds.
No date was immediately set for the appeal before the bench of nine judges at the Constitutional Court.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/zimbabwes-president-goes-back-court-polls-112214753.html
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Obama to set nuclear arms cut goal in Berlin speech
By Jeff Mason and Roberta Rampton
BERLIN (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will unveil plans for a sharp reduction in nuclear warheads in a landmark speech at the Brandenburg Gate on Wednesday that comes 50 years after John F. Kennedy declared "Ich bin ein Berliner" in a defiant Cold War address.
A senior U.S. administration official said Obama, on his first visit to the German capital as president, would signal his desire to cut deployed atomic weapons by up to one third below the level achieved in the last "New START" treaty with Russia.
"The U.S. intent is to seek negotiated cuts with Russia so that we can continue to move beyond Cold War nuclear postures," the official said.
Fresh from a two day summit with Group of Eight leaders in Northern Ireland, Obama is due to speak at the Gate that once stood alongside slabs of the Berlin Wall that divided the communist East and capitalist West sections of the city.
It has been nearly five years since he last came to Berlin as a presidential candidate, attracting a crowd of 200,000 adoring fans at a speech in the Tiergarten park.
A lot has changed since then. After more than four years in office, Obama has disappointed some Europeans who saw him as a more progressive face of America compared to his predecessor, Republican George W. Bush.
But the Democrat leader remains popular in Germany, and he has forged a pragmatic - if not warm - relationship with conservative Chancellor Angela Merkel, one of his closest European allies. Obama's trip gives her a boost just months before a German election.
The president will spend his day in meetings with Merkel, German President Joachim Gauck, and Peer Steinbrueck, the Social Democrat running against her this fall. Obama and Merkel are scheduled to give a press conference around midday, followed by the speech three hours later.
In 1987 Ronald Reagan, speaking on the other side of the Gate in what was then West Berlin, exhorted Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down this wall!". Kennedy delivered his celebrated "Ich bin ein Berliner" remarks 50 years ago at Schoeneberg city hall a few kilometers to the south.
Merkel forbade Obama, then an Illinois senator, from speaking in front of the famous landmark in 2008, arguing that this privilege was reserved for sitting presidents.
21ST CENTURY CHALLENGES
This year, to a crowd of some 4,000 government officials and students, he will stand in the Pariser Platz square on the east side of the Gate and call for Germans, Europeans and Americans to use their shared history of strong alliances to tackle pressing problems of the 21st century.
Those challenges included nuclear arms control, climate change, counterterrorism, and promoting democratic values beyond the Western world, Obama's deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes told reporters aboard Air Force One on the flight to Berlin Tuesday evening.
"This is the place where U.S. presidents have gone to talk about the role of the free world," Rhodes said.
Separately, the senior official said on Wednesday that Obama would pledge to work with NATO allies to develop proposals on reducing U.S. and Russian tactical nuclear weapons in Europe.
He is also expected to announce that he will host a nuclear security summit in 2016 to work on the issue of securing nuclear materials and preventing nuclear terrorism.
Obama met with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G8 summit, signing a new agreement on nuclear nonproliferation to replace a 1992 pact that expired on Monday.
The talks between Obama and Merkel are expected to focus on the wars in Syria and Afghanistan, negotiations over a new EU-U.S. trade pact, and revelations of a U.S. spying program dubbed Prism that has upset Germans wary of government surveillance after the trauma of the Nazi Gestapo and East German Stasi secret police.
"I expect the chancellor to raise this issue and seek answers," Ruprecht Polenz, a member of Merkel's conservatives and chairman of the foreign affairs committee of the Bundestag lower house, said of the Internet monitoring program.
Ahead of the visit, Merkel tried to play down tensions over the program, saying Washington's cyber-snooping had helped prevent attacks on German soil.
Obama, who is joined by his wife Michelle and their two daughters, landed in Berlin on Tuesday evening to a red carpet and honor guard welcome. As his motorcade swept through the city's wide streets, Germans lined up to watch and wave. One carried a huge American flag.
Not everyone was happy to see the U.S. leader, though. Media reports said anti-Obama protests could draw up to 5,000 people on Wednesday. The Pirates party, which campaigns for Internet freedom, has called for a rally at the Victory Column, where Obama spoke in 2008.
(Writing by Noah Barkin and Jeff Mason; Additional reporting by Erik Kirschbaum; editing by Anna Willard)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/obama-set-goals-cut-nuclear-weapons-senior-official-053907120.html
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Syrian pound tumbles on US plans to arm rebels
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) ? Many exchange shops closed in Damascus on Tuesday, fearing more chaos a day after the Syrian currency plunged to a new record low, reflecting growing fears in the capital following a U.S. decision to arm rebel groups fighting to topple President Bashar Assad's regime.
The currency woes add to the embattled president's troubles, and government officials rushed to allay public fears by announcing Damacus' top ally Iran was extending a credit line to make up for market needs.
Traders in the capital said a rush to buy U.S. dollars on Monday sent the Syrian pound's value tumbling to 210 to the dollar, compared to 170 just that morning. Many exchange shops closed Tuesday while others opened their doors without doing business, saying it was difficult to value the pound.
The official price of the dollar Tuesday was 99 pounds, according to state news agency SANA, though the widespread black market price is considered to reflect its real value. When Syria's conflict began in early 2011, the dollar was worth 47 pounds.
The currency dive followed last week's decision by the Obama administration to arm rebel groups in Syria, deepening U.S. involvement in the more than 2-year civil war which has killed 93,000 people, according to the U.N. The U.S., Britain and France accused Assad's regime of using chemical weapons, which President Barack Obama called a "red line."
"Expectations of a stronger U.S. involvement in Syria following the decision to arm rebels groups was almost certainly the key factor behind the recent drop in the Syrian pound," said Torbjorn Soltvedt, senior analyst at the British risk analysis firm Maplecroft.
"The decision reinforced the view that ultimately the Syrian regime will be unable to survive in its current form, despite recent strategic gains," he said, predicting a prolonged stalemate.
Regime forces have been waging a stepped-up offensive in the central Homs province and the northern city of Aleppo, Syria's largest city and once the country's commercial center. The assaults were launched after troops backed by Hezbollah fighters captured the rebel-held strategic western town of Qusair near the Lebanon border on June 5.
Officials rushed to assuage currency fears. Central Bank governor Adib Mayaleh said the pounds drop was unjustified and that government "put in place the required mechanism" ? a $1 billion credit line from Iran to help support the pound, the state news agency SANA reported.
Iran is one of Assad's strongest allies and is believed to have supplied his government with billions of dollars since the country's crisis began in March 2011.
Syrian Prime Minister Wael al-Halqi said the government still has large reserves of foreign exchange and would put in place a package of economic measures to enhance the economy. He referred to the support of "friendly countries," including Iran's willingness to finance Syrian imports and the needs of industrial and agricultural production.
Syrians in the past few months have rushed to get rid of their pounds by buying gold or dollars and euros to preserve the value of their savings. Lack of tourists and a ban on Syria's oil exports by the U.S. and the European Union months after the crisis began deprived the government of billions of dollars annually.
The rising dollar has fueled a hike in prices.
"I keep changing the price of the products I sell to match the price of the dollar, otherwise I would be losing all the time," said a Damascus resident who sells spare car parts. He spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals.
Aleppo-based activist Mohammed Saeed said the rebel-held northern regions depend on goods imported from Turkey ? including rice, sugar, butter and cooking oil, which are becoming more expensive in pounds.
"People get paid in Syrian pounds and are finding it more difficult to buy their needs," Saeed said by telephone.
Syria-based economist Hisham Khayat said the danger is that "the market is being dollarized. Buying and selling in Syria is based on the exchange rate."
When the conflict began, the government had some $17 billion in foreign currency reserves. But that figure has dropped from blows to two main pillars of the economy: oil exports, which used to bring in up to $8 million per day, and tourism which in 2010 earned $8 billion. Now U.S. and European Union bans on oil imports are estimated to cost Syria about $400 million a month.
The government has not said what currency reserves it has left, but the London-based Economist Intelligence Unit estimates it at a little more than $4.5 billion.
All those factors mean the currency is likely to continue falling, Soltvedt said.
"For the foreseeable future it is difficult to imagine even a limited degree of economic normalcy returning to Syria."
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Mroue reported from Beirut.
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New NASA astronauts headed for destinations unknown
Eight new people have what it takes to travel in space ? if NASA can decide where they will go.
On 17 June the US space agency announced its new class of astronauts, the first who will be trained for exploration beyond Earth orbit since the Apollo years.
Chosen from a pool of more than 6300 applicants, the class of 2013 includes pilots, military officers, doctors and a physicist. Several are SCUBA certified and have spent time in remote locations such as Antarctica.
"Each person is chock-full of talent," says Janet Kavandi, director of Flight Crew Operations at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. "They work in some pretty extreme environments ? like space but not quite space. It's just an easier transition for people when they've experienced those environments." The class is also evenly split between men and women for the first time in NASA's history, which Kavandi says was not deliberate.
Early training will focus on trips to the International Space Station and preparing to be the first humans to fly in commercial vehicles like the SpaceX Dragon capsule. After that, their path is uncertain.
Skipping to Mars
NASA recently confirmed a plan to drag an asteroid into lunar orbit to use as a training ground for deep-space exploration. But if it passes, a bill drafted by the US House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology would axe that mission. "The draft legislation focuses NASA's limited resources on initiatives that have strong, long-standing bipartisan support, like sending humans to Mars," a Congressional aide revealed.
The bill will be debated at a hearing on 19 June. Whatever the outcome, the overall training plans for the new astronaut corps will mostly stay the same, says Ellen Ochoa, director of the Johnson Space Center. Existing plans are already designed to teach astronauts how to prepare for a mission to Mars.
"A lot of the training we will do with them will be applicable to many different destinations in space," she says.
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