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WASHINGTON — US presidential hopeful Mitt Romney yesterday vowed tougher sanctions against Iran, if he is elected, backed by readiness to use military force to keep it from getting a nuclear weapon.Criticising what he sees as an Obama administration policy weighted toward engagement, Romney told
China’s defence budget to grow in 2012
BEIJING — China said Sunday it plans to raise its defence budget by 11,2 percent to US$106,4 billion in 2012. This year’s draft defence budget is 67,6 billion yuan more than the defence expenditure of 2011, said Li Zhaoxing, spokesman for the annual session of China’s national legislature. “The ChineseRussia, US spar over protests on Twitter
MOSCOW — Russia yesterday took to Twitter to denounce an earlier tweet from the US ambassador about the rough handling of activists who tried to stage a sit-in protest over Vladimir Putin’s election win.The pointed exchange between the foreign ministry and US ambassador Michael McFaul followed the
Eastern Libya defies Tripoli to create autonomous council
BENGHAZI — Civic leaders in Cyrenaica, home to most of Libya’s oil, have created a council to administer the eastern region, a move that could lead to confrontation with the interim leadership in Tripoli. About 3 000 delegates at a congress yesterday in the eastern city of Benghazi installedAnswer lies in efficient public transport system
The war between traffic police and commuter omnibus operators is fast running out of control. Police claim they are enforcing traffic laws while operators claim they are being fleeced in broad daylight.At some point, operators in Harare and Norton withdrew their service in protest against what they
AU must assert itself on Libya
Dr Kananga KandengeLibya is both an Arab country and an African country. Libya is a member of the African Union, a member of the Mediterranean countries and a member of the Arab Lea- gue. It is fact that there are
Celebration of the moment
Sekai NzenzaThree days before my cousin Erica died, she draped her munembo, the big white cloth worn by members of the Johanne Masowe Apostolic Faith all around me. We were attending Erica’s brother
Baby that retained its placenta
There was an interesting story on the online website, NewZimbabwe.com this week, seemingly trivial but which goes to the heart of what MDC-T is and stands for and can even explain the ongoing circus with the constitution-making process, and the state of our domestic politics in general.The story that was titled, ‘‘MDC-T sucked into Twitter storm’’ and published on March 4 queries why MDC-T’s twitter account does not follow a single Zimbabwean but treks ‘‘only the updates of 32