High Commissioner Navi Pillay said countries in the region need to address the issues of abuse against foreign workers and improve women's rights.

Mr. Bashir probably could have won without rigging

Rare are pictures of him decked out in his military uniform or like an Islamic sheik, images he has projected before. Most posters today show him standing in front of icons of industry: a dam, a factory, a road, a steamroller.

Corruption is not a crippling problem here, as it is in neighboring Kenya, or in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Nigeria, two African nations blessed with staggering amounts of resources but suffering from the so-called resource curse. World Bank executives say Sudan has some of the sharpest economic policy makers on the continent, who have invested wisely in infrastructure, education and the country’s agriculture industry.

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Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Sunday he favors a presidential system for Turkey and may bring up the issue if he wins general elections next year, Anatolia news agency reported. "After 2011... a presidential system may again come to Turkey's agenda... If the people give us their blessing, this can be discussed in the framework of a brand new constitution," Anatolia quoted Erdogan as saying. Erdogan's Islamist-rooted Justice and Development Party (AKP) has already drafted a set of constitutional amendments curbing the powers of key judicial bodies, overriding opposition criticism that it is seeking to tighten its grip on power.

Often accused of having authoritarian ambitions, Erdogan declined to say whether he would consider running for the top post if a presidential system was installed. "I cannot say anything about myself at the moment. If the people approve a presidential system... then what comes next will be a different matter," he was quoted as saying. A presidential system, he argued, will allow Turkey "to gain a faster pace of development."

Opposition leader Roza Otunbayeva, the former foreign minister, said parliament was dissolved and she would head the interim government. She said the new government controlled four of the seven provinces and called on President Kurmanbek Bakiyev to resign. "His business in Kyrgyzstan is finished," she said Thursday. By Thursday afternoon, there was no sign of Bakiyev. Otunbayeva said he had fled to the central region of Jalal-Abad, the heart of his political stronghold, to seek support. This raised some concerns that Bakiyev could try to exploit the country's traditional north-south split to secure his own survival.

State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said the U.S. deplored the violence

the strategy of supporting authoritarian rulers in an effort to combat the threat of Islamic extremism had been a failure

"I see increasing radicalisation in this area of the world, and I understand the reason. People feel repressed by their own governments, they feel unfairly treated by the outside world, they wake up in the morning and who do they see – they see people being shot and killed, all Muslims from Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Sudan, Darfur."

where do you find this regime change in international law? And if it is a violation of international law, who is accountable for that?