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A high-powered Zimbabwean delegation, which is optimistic that the proposed ban on ivory trade will not be effected, has left here for the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) conference in the Netherlands, The Herald reported on Friday.
    The delegation comprises Environment and Tourism Minister Francis Nhema and the ministry’s permanent secretary Margaret Sangarwe, various conservationists working for several private companies and six senior parks’ officials.
    Some delegates said Zimbabwe will base its arguments on the advantages of sustainable utilization and management of natural resources. The concept, they said, puts emphasis on the proper management of natural resources such as wildlife, while at the same time considering benefits accrued from wildlife management as a critical component of encouraging good conservation practices.
    At least nine people, including a paramilitary trooper, were killed in separate insurgency-related violence in East Indian Manipur region even as security forces in strength have been deployed in vulnerable areas, Indo-Asian News Service (IANS) reported Friday.
    A police spokesman said three volunteers of the Anti-Narcotic and Drug Organization (ANDO), a non-governmental group spearheading a campaign to eliminate drug abuse in the state, were shot dead Thursday near Wangoi in Imphal in Manipur.
    "Unidentified militants shot at the three ANDO workers from close range. Two of them were killed near the magistrate’s office complex in Wangoi and another was shot dead a little further away," LANS quoted police official B. Singh as saying.
    A US veteran who served in the Iraq War could lose his honorable discharge status after being photographed wearing fatigues at an anti-war protest.
    Marine Corporal Adam Kokesh and other veterans marked the fourth anniversary of the war in Iraq in April by wearing their uniforms—with military insignia removed—and roaming around the nation’s capital on a mock patrol.
    After Kokesh was identified in a photo caption in The Washington Post, a superior officer sent him a letter saying he might have violated a rule prohibiting troops from wearing uniforms without authorization.
    Kokesh, a member of Iraq Veterans Against the War, responded with an obscenity.
South Sudan on Saturday decried the slow progress in the implementation of the historic north-south peace agreement, which ended Africa’s longest civil war in the vast region.
Addressing a news conference in Nairobi, South Sudan Regional Cooperation Minister Bernaba Marial Benjamin called on regional countries, which spearheaded the peace process to move to intervene and ensure specific aspects of the deal are implemented to make unity attractive.
    Benjamin said two years after the triumphant signing of the landmark peace deal, escalating militia attacks in the south and continued disputes over ownership of Sudan’s oil fields, mainly located in the south, and power sharing have not been resolved.
    Leaders of five major developing countries met here Thursday to discuss the world economy, climate change, child labor and other key issues ahead of a meeting with leaders of the Group of Eight (G8) industrialized nations.
    Attending the meeting were Chinese President Hu Jintao, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Mexican President Felipe Calder6n, South African President Thabo Mbeki and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
    The leaders will also hold "an outreach session" with their counterparts of the G8 countries on Friday in Heiligendamm, a Baltic resort town in northern Germany.
6. Which of the following statements is true about recent Zimbabwe?
7. How many ANDO workers were killed near the magistrate’s office complex in Wangoi according to the police officer?
8. What happened to the marine veterans after the report released by The Washington Post?
9. Which of the following statements is true about recent South Sudan?
10. Leaders of the five major developing countries are to discuss some key issues ahead of G8. Which issue is NOT directly mentioned in the report?