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The upcoming elections in Zimbabwe will certainly also prove a critical turning point for this economically and politically distraught country, where President Mugabe has ruled for 18 years. Get more on this vote in our lead analysis, or look to the features section to learn about Project BudBurst, an initiative that invites regular Americans to help scientists track climate change by keeping an eye on sprouting buds and blossoms in their neighborhoods.
President Musharraf's opponents headed for election victory in Pakistan today after voters rejected his former ruling party.
From Dawn + OneWorld Guide to Pakistan 
Police detained the editor of the Myanmar Nation and his office manager, seized documents and closed the weekly publication.
From:
Reporter Senza Frontiere
African development advocates are calling on the United States to engage multilaterally and in support of the democratic process in Zimbabwe, where March presidential elections could end the 18-year rule of Robert Mugabe and start the healing process after a near decade of acute political, social, and economic crisis.
From:
Africa Action
Image: Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe.
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As Fidel Castro resigns after 50 years as president and commander in chief of Cuba, leaving power in the hands of his brother Raul, Ed Vulliamy and Andres Schipani look at the Cuban revolutionary's career of constant struggle. This article first appeared in the Observer in January 2007.
From:
Guardian Unlimited
+ OneWorld Guide to Cuba Image: Fidel Castro
The road from music stardom to political office is not always an easy one and yet a surprising number of musicians have walked it, says Paul Evans.
From New Statesman 
Project BudBurst allows regular people across the United States to partake in a national effort to track the effects of climate change by entering their observations of plants budding and flowers blooming in an online database.
From:
Environment News Service (ENS)
Image: © American University Trade Environment Database/Environment News Service (ENS)
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Global warming has allowed crabs and other predators to threaten the Antarctic's fragile marine ecosystem, scientists said at a conference.
From: UPI Image: Crabs © FreeFoto
Almost half of the world's oceans are in a fairly degraded state, shows a new report. But there are things we can all do to slow this damage.
From:
Greenpeace International
Image: Map showing damage to the world's oceans. Image from Greenpeace
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