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President Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF party has retained the first seat in a partial recount of parliamentary votes. To regain control of parliament, ZANU-PF only needs to reverse the result in seven of the other seats being recounted. The opposition has denounced the recount as a ploy by Mugabe to steal back control of parliament; and says the delay in releasing the result of the presidential election is also intended to buy more time for a defeated regime. Meanwhile Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown has called for an arms embargo on Zimbabwe.
(Deutsche Welle)
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