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Africa: Curiously, with official results still not released, Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF party is demanding a recount. If this odd development does not indicate Mugabe's weakening hold, then perhaps the increasingly firm resistance by the MDC party -- including this letter by leader Morgan Tsvangirai to the Guardian -- does. My allusion to a cabinet agreement in Kenya last week proved premature, although the power-sharing leaders insist they're still working on it. In Egypt, long-running (and largely unreported in Western media) protests and demonstrations by striking textile workers led to police clashes.

Asia: More riots in Tibet, while thousands turned out to jeer the Olympic torch as it made the rounds of London (picture from Flickr user dantesinferno).

Further reading: The Guardian documents changes in Cuba, and in the NY Times Magazine, a journalist returns to Liberia.