Zimbabweans skeptical as ZANU PF, MDC begin talks

HARARE - President Robert Mugabe's government began preliminary talks with the opposition on Thursday but crisis-weary Zimbabweans were sceptical that the bitter rivals could put aside deep-seated hatred and mistrust between them to agree to form a government of national unity to end the country's crisis.

Both Mugabe's ruling ZANU PF party and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party have come under heavy international pressure to enter a