Harare, Jan. 19: Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe on Sunday threatened to break off power-sharing talks with the opposition, if the latter's leader Morgan Tsvangirai declined to sign a deal in their next meeting.

The bitter rivals are set to meet today for talks mediated by South African President Kgalema Motlanthe, who hopes to salvage a unity accord, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.

Harare  - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has set a Monday meeting with opposition leaders as the last chance to present concerns before a government is formed, with or without them.

"This is the occasion when it's either they accept or it's a break," said Mugabe, quoted in the state-owned Sunday Mail. "After all, this is an interim agreement. If they (the opposition) have any issues them deem outstanding, they can raise them after they come into the inclusive government."

Johannesburg - Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai are to meet for talks under regional mediation Monday, four months after the two signed a power- sharing deal that has failed to materialize.

The office of South African President Kgalema Motlanthe confirmed late Thursday that he would lead a delegation from the Southern African Development Community (SADC) to Zimbabwe.

Johannesburg - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is vacationing in Malaysia, to where he has also transferred funds, according to South Africa's Saturday Star newspaper.

It said Mugabe's wife, Grace - who went with their four children to Malaysia before Christmas - had organised a transfer of 92,000 dollars from Zimbabwe's central bank.

Mugabe, who followed on last Monday, was using the vacation for routine health checks, while his personal doctor had also helped organise transfer of personal funds to Malaysia and also Singapore.

Harare  - Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe vowed to fend off his "political death" and urged his party to be ready for new polls as he blamed Britain for the economic woes facing the country.

Closing his ZANU-PF party's 10th annual conference in Bindura, about 80 kilometres north of Harare late Saturday, Mugabe brushed off international pressure to resign as Zimbabwe crumbles under its worst humanitarian and economic crisis.

London, Dec 20: President Robert Mugabe has declared that "Zimbabwe is mine," and vowed never to surrender to calls to step down, as his political rival threatened to quit stalled unity government talks.

Addressing his ZANU-PF party's annual conference amid a ruinous political crisis and a deadly cholera epidemic, Mugabe returned to the kind of defiance he has often shown in the face of mounting criticism, The Telegraph reported.