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Search for: Offline summarization (match summaries) Hybrid summarization Online summarization Offline summarization (match articles) U.S. World Finance Sci/Tech Entertainment Sports View Today's Images Back to Archive Index About Newsblaster About today's run Newsblaster in Press Academic Papers Article Sources: washingtonpost.com (265 articles) haaretz.com (125 articles) nytimes.com (107 articles) news.bbc.co.uk (88 articles) cbc.ca (52 articles) baltimoresun.com (48 articles) foxnews.com (44 articles) latimes.com (42 articles) abcnews.go.com (35 articles) suntimes.com (29 articles) timesonline.co.uk (28 articles) nypost.com (21 articles) dallasnews.com (11 articles) sfgate.com (7 articles) ft.com (5 articles) msnbc.msn.com (5 articles) nature.com (5 articles) technology. timesonline.co.uk (4 articles) cnn.com (4 articles) women. timesonline.co.uk (2 articles)	PM criticises UN Zimbabwe failure Summary from multiple countries, from articles in English JOHANNESBURG (AP) - The failure of the United States campaign to gain approval for international sanctions on Zimbabwe s leaders returns the focus to South African efforts to end the political crisis in Zimbabwe. (article 9) Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, in a voting day message to supporters distributed by e-mail, said the results of the balloting would " reflect only the fear of the people of Zimbabwe. (article 10) A draft resolution to impose sanctions on Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and a number of his key allies has been vetoed at the UN Security Council. (article 3) " The key thing is that the Russians decided to vote against it said John Sawers, the British ambassador to the United Nations. (article 6) JOHANNESBURG - Zimbabwe s ruling party began preliminary discussions with the opposition on Thursday in an effort to settle a political crisis in which both sides have staked a claim to the nation's presidency. (article 11) The United States pushed for a swift vote to apply UN sanctions on Zimbabwe's leaders yesterday after Russia backed away from an apparent deal at the G8 summit. (article 5) Crisis talks in the UN corridors led to the vote being postponed until today because of the risk of a veto by Moscow or Beijing. (article 5) Other summaries about this story: Summary from the United Kingdom, from articles in English (7 articles) [compare] Summary from United States, from articles in English (5 articles) [compare] Event tracking: Track this story's development in time Story keywords Mugabe, Zimbabwe, Tsvangirai, Opposition, UN Source articles Zimbabwe hails sanctions failure (BBC News, 07/12/2008, 663 words) Fury as Zimbabwe sanctions vetoed (BBC News, 07/12/2008, 701 words) Zimbabwe sanctions vetoed at UN (BBC News, 07/12/2008, 511 words) PM criticises UN Zimbabwe failure (BBC News, 07/12/2008, 803 words) G8: Vote on Zimbabwe sanctions in doubt after Russia falters over G8 pact (timesonline.co.uk, 07/10/2008, 591 words) 2 Vetoes Quash U.N. Sanctions on Zimbabwe (nytimes.com, 07/12/2008, 799 words) Zimbabwe rival parties hold talks (BBC News, 07/10/2008, 573 words) Zimbabwe talks enter second day (BBC News, 07/11/2008, 685 words) South Africa Crucial to Zimbabwe (nytimes.com, 07/13/2008, 260 words) Zimbabwean runoff gets off to slow start (Washington Post, 07/12/2008, 686 words) Zimbabwe Rivals Tentatively Begin Talks on Political Crisis (nytimes.com, 07/11/2008, 571 words) Democracy is losing ground in Africa (L.A. Times, 07/13/2008, 704 words) blaster@cs.columbia.edu