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'Tortured' witness to take stand in Zimbabwe
Nov 11th, 2009 - Yahoo! News
HARARE (AFP) – An arms dealer who said he was tortured into testifying will be allowed to take the stand in the terror trial of a top ally of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai...
Lebanon finally forms government
Nov 9th, 2009 - BBC NEWS
Mr Hariri's bloc won the election but had to form a unity government Lebanese President Michel Suleiman has announced the formation of the 30-member national-unity cabinet - five months after a general election.
Zimbabwe PM's ally goes on trial for terrorism
Nov 9th, 2009 - Reuters
HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's ally Roy Bennett went on trial accused of terrorism on Monday in a case that has stoked tensions in the unity government of Tsvangirai and President Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF.
Honduran rivals signal new bid to solve crisis
Nov 7th, 2009 - Reuters
TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - Honduras' ousted president and de facto leader gave signs they would try again on Saturday to form a unity government to guide the country out of a four-month crisis after the process collapsed a day earlier.
Expanded Role Seen for S. Africa's Zuma in Zimbabwe Unity Gov't Patchup
Nov 6th, 2009 - VOA News
South African President Jacob Zuma is expected to take a leading role in monitoring follow-through by the partners in Zimbabwe's government of national unity in implementing a deal concluded late Thursday in Maputo...

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Hariri forms unity government - 10 Nov 09
Saad al-Hariri, Lebanon's prime minister, has unveiled a unity government that he says turns a "new page" for the country's political parties. The announcement followed four months of negotiating ...
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Hadi still upbeat on unity government
Met by reporters on his 'walk-about' through the stalls set up for the 55th Muktamar, party president Hadi Awang is still upbeat on the possibility of a unity government with BN. When asked ...
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Morgan Tsvangirai rejects formation of unity government
zimbabwe crisis
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PAS should explain what unity government means
Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said PAS should explain what it means be a unity government.

Unity Government from WikiPedia:

A national government (alternatively a national unity or national union government) is a broad coalition government consisting of all parties (or all major parties) in the legislature, usually formed during a time of war or other national emergency.

During World War I the Conservative government of Sir Robert Borden invited the Liberal opposition to join the government as a means of dealing with the Conscription crisis of 1917. The Liberals, led by Sir Wilfrid Laurier refused; however, Borden was able to convince many individual Liberals to join what was called a Union Government, which defeated the Laurier Liberals in the fall 1917 election.

During World War II, the opposition Conservative Party ran under the name National Government in the 1940 election as a means of promoting their platform of creating a wartime national government coalition (evocative of the previous war's Union government). The party did dismally in the election which re-elected the Liberal government of William Lyon Mackenzie King whose party continued to rule alone for the duration of World War II.