The latest on the power-sharing deal in Zimbabwe and stories from the frontlines of the AIDS epidemic in India.
The power-sharing deal signed three months ago stipulated that ZANU-PF would have 15 ministers in the council and the MDC would have 13.
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Finance is one of the most crucial posts, as Zimbabweans hope the power-sharing deal will lead to action to tackle the economic crisis.
Under the power-sharing deal, Tutsi President Pierre Buyoya is due to swap places with his Hutu Vice-President Domitien Ndayizeye on 1 May 2003.
The Herald quoted Mugabe as saying he was optimistic that he would make efforts to resuscitate the power-sharing deal he signed with Tsvangirai in September.
CNN: Opposition leader threatens to halt Zimbabwe unity talks
Tsvangirai has threatened to pull out of the power-sharing deal he signed with Mugabe in September if the detainees are not released by year's end.
Several leaders from the 12-member group met with Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai and President Robert Mugabe in a bid to salvage the power-sharing deal signed by them last month.
The power-sharing deal is expected to keep Zimbabwe's melting economy from a total collapse: Its official inflation rate of 231 million percent is the world's worst, and the United Nations estimates that 5 million people need urgent food aid.
Because of the power-sharing deal underlying the current Iraqi political setup, the presidency is in the hands of the Kurds - and for Kurdish political reasons, it would have to go to someone from Mr Talabani's party, the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), our correspondent explains.
The statement said the fighting violated the letter and spirit of the Pretoria power-sharing deal signed on 17 December by the Kinshasa government, the main rebel groups and DR Congo's political opposition.
Officially, outsiders support the power-sharing peace deal negotiated in 1994.
Having reportedly opposed the original power-sharing deal between Messrs Mugabe and Tsvangirai in September, a harder-line faction led by Mr Biti now hopes to persuade the party to reject the latest one at a meeting of its national council.
Mugabe's ZANU-PF party and the Movement for Democratic Change, led by Tsvangirai, have failed to implement the September 15 power-sharing deal because they cannot agree on who should control key ministries.
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Moderate Islamists still outnumber the radicals, and could yet restrain their more vociferous co-religionists in order to make a power-sharing deal with the transitional government.
Although the deal calls for power-sharing, the PYD calls the shots.
After his forces intervened in CAR, Mr Bemba became a vice-president in DR Congo as part of a 2003 power-sharing deal between the government and various rebel groups to end years of conflict.
One possible end-game is for Mr Michael to negotiate a power-sharing deal with the Liberal Democrats: Mike German, who leads them, would like a bigger role, and his support would give Mr Michael his majority.
More likely is a power-sharing deal that keeps the party together, even at the cost of continuing internal strains.
Former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad predicted earlier this week that the country would soon be governed under a power-sharing deal.
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In all of this, there were the ingredients of a good news story but it was badly told, and as a consequence the deal aimed at restoring power-sharing after November elections in Northern Ireland went on hold.
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The arms talks are a key requirement of the deal between unionists and republicans which allowed the formation of the power-sharing Assembly executive on Thursday.
The names of key suspects involved in violence after the 2007 election were handed over to the ICC by Kofi Annan, who brokered a power-sharing deal.
Under a power-sharing deal signed in August, the Tutsi minority will have 40% of government and national assembly posts, compared to 60% for Hutus.
Frazer said that during her trip, she consulted with the leaders of Zimbabwe's neighbors who are stuck between their concerns about Mugabe's grip on power and their support of the power-sharing agreement, which they still think is the best way to deal with the crisis without creating a backlash.
CNN: Diplomat: U.S. no longer supports Zimbabwe power-share deal
Former South Africa President Nelson Mandela, who mediated the peace deal, had expressed the hope that they would join the power-sharing arrangement which leads to democratic elections in three years time.
Negotiators in Zimbabwe said they were close to a power-sharing deal between President Robert Mugabe's ruling party and the opposition Movement for Democratic Change led by Morgan Tsvangirai, who would become prime minister.
The formation of the Council follows the establishment of Northern Ireland's power-sharing executive in the Assembly after former US senator George Mitchell helped unionists and republicans to come to a deal on devolution and arms decommissioning.
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