David Warner suspended, fined

LONDON. — Australia’s David Warner has been suspended until the start of the Ashes series and fined after attacking England’s Joe Root in a bar, Cricket Australia said yesterday.

Pistorius left out of SA Paralympic team

JOHANNESBURG. — As expected, Oscar Pistorius was left off South Africa’s team yesterday for the Paralympic athletics world championships next month in France.

Storm causes delay at US Open

ARDMORE, Pa. — Under cloudy skies and with weather prospects dicey for the rest of the day, the US Open returned to the Merion for the first time in 32 years yesterday.

Egypt, Ethiopia urged to resolve Nile dispute

ADDIS ABABA — The African Union (AU) urged Egypt and Ethiopia to hold talks to resolve a bitter dispute over the sharing of Nile river waters amid Ethiopia’s building of a new dam, the AU chief said on

Full text of MDC-T grand plan to undermine Judiciary

Meeting on Strategic Election Litigation
June 3 2013

IRGC commander calls for high voter turnout

TEHRAN — Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Ground Force Brigadier General Mohammad Pakpour urged the Iranian people to turn out in massive numbers in today’s presidential

Tunisian court jails topless activists

TUNIS — A Tunisian court on Wednesday convicted three European feminist activists who staged a topless courthouse protest last month, sentencing them to four months and a day in prison, a court

Snowden ‘hero to all humanity’:Assange

SYDNEY — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has called whistleblower Edward Snowden “a hero to all humanity”in a live video address to the University of Sydney yesterday.

Greece hit with general strike amid fury over state TV closure

ATHENS — Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets in Greece yesterday as workers staged a nationwide strike to protest against the government’s dramatic shutdown of public broadcaster ERT.

NGOs under investigation

COLOMBO. — The Sri Lankan government has appointed a special committee to investigate charges and allegations being levelled against Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) and their operations in the

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