Russia on US Move to Quit Civil Rights Panel

MOSCOW — Russia has not received any official notification from the United States confirming its departure from a bilateral group on civil society issues, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said yesterday.

Indian party gives knives to women

Mumbai — A far-right political party is distributing thousands of knives to women in a western Indian state to help them protect themselves after a fatal gang rape last month alarmed the country.

Diarrhoea claims 11 countrywide, say experts

Paidamoyo Chipunza Health Reporter

ELEVEN people from different parts of the country succumbed

3 arrested for Brazil fire

Santa Maria — Brazilian police say they’ve made three arrests and are seeking a fourth person in connection with a nightclub fire that killed more than 230 people. Police spokesperson Ranolfo Vieira

Land reform: Moral, spiritual issue of existence

Itayi Garande
LAND has been the moral and spiritual issue of our existence. It is the most pressing moral and spiritual issue today, thus it demands serious public discourse. A recent review by Sir Malcolm Rifkind,

France, US play tag-team in Africa

Glen Ford

“ONLY the United States has the logistical capacity to maintain a long war over great distances in Africa.” The French military has taken the lead in attacking Islamists in the former French African

‘ZDF and indigenisation intertwined’

Tendai Mugabe Senior Reporter
The Zimbabwe Defence Forces should have a share under Zimbabwe’s

Makumbe burial set for tomorrow

Herald Reporter
University of Zimbabwe lecturer Professor John Makumbe, who died in Harare

Mexican towns rise up against crime

El Meson — Seven detainees sat stone-faced in a small, dark and windowless cell inside a pink building serving as a makeshift jail in the southwestern Mexican village of El Meson. In a larger room

9/11 defendants won’t respond to judge

Guantanamo Bay Naval Base — Two 9/11 defendants delayed the start of their hearing yesterday at Guantanamo when they refused to respond to questions from their judge in the case. Defence lawyers

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