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The Bush administration's newly aggressive effort to help people facing foreclosure and shore up the troubled mortgage industry was sparked by growing concerns of an election-year recession, and the political damage that would cause, analysts said Tuesday.

The White House's move to deal with the growing foreclosure rate comes amid concerns about the '08 elections. The Bush administration's newly aggressive effort to help people facing foreclosure and shore up the troubled mortgage industry was sparked by growing concerns of an election-year recession, and the political damage that would cause, analysts said Tuesday.

CHINESE tourists are expected to gain access to the United States soon as the two countries are likely to reach an agreement to grant the US Authorized Destination Status by the end of this year, the Oriental Morning Post reported today. The second round of negotiations is scheduled to kick off in the middle of this month, said Du Jiang, deputy chief of the National Tourism Administration. The US Department of Commerce hopes the negotiations will be completed within this year, Du said. "If the negotiation fares well, we also hope it can yield results within this year," Du said. Once the deal is signed, Chinese people will be able to travel to the US with a tourist visa. Eighty-six countries and regions including Germany, South Korea and Japan currently have Authorized Destination Status, the report said. The volume of people travelling between China and the United States hit 2.35 million last year, according to the figure released by the National Tourism

Fears are rising that civil war may resume in a part of the country that has had a rare few years of peace "THIS time," said the south Sudanese general, jabbing at the table, "we will take the war to their children. We will fight the war in the north and they will not forget it." A few dusty streets away, in Juba, the capital of south Sudan on the banks of the Nile, an emotional crowd of supporters of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM), which runs the south, gathered round the grave of John Garang, its charismatic leader who was killed in a helicopter crash in 2005. The protesters were listless in the midday furnace of the equatorial sun but their message was fierce and clear. If the north failed to honour the peace agreement signed in 2005, they would fight again. That deal ended a war between north and south Sudan that had bloodily sputtered on and off for 50 years, killing some 2m Sudanese and displacing 4m more. The accord was a rare foreign-policy success for George Bush's administration. Now it may be unravelling. Does that herald a return to bloody conflict?