adminSuarez’s Real move edges closer
LONDON. — Luis Suarez will get his wish to join Real Madrid — but only if the Spanish football giants sweeten the deal with one of their most promising youngsters.Liverpool are now ready to listen to offers for their want-away striker but have made clear they will not budge a penny below the £40million clause built into the Uruguayan’s
Fifa probe African teams
JOHANNESBURG. — Egypt, Ethiopia, Cote d’lvoire, Tunisia and Algeria on Sunday became the first countries to reach the play-offs in the Africa zone of the 2014 World Cup soccer qualifiers.‘No breakthrough on Assange’
LONDON. — Britain and Ecuador have agreed to establish a working group to find a diplomatic solution on the issue of Julia Assange but made no breakthrough, British Foreign Office said yesterday.
Ouattara speaks on African growth
LIBREVILLE. — Cote d’Ivoire President Alassane Ouattara has lamented that although Africa was posting the best economic growth in the world, the continent’s growth is dependent on raw materials.Xenophobic attacks on Chinese students in France
BORDEAUX. — French Agriculture Minister Stephane Le Foll on Sunday denounced the violent attack on Chinese students in south-west France, saying that the country’s image was tarnished by the xenophobic act.Britain spies on G20 members
LONDON. — Foreign politicians and officials who took part in two G20 summit meetings in London in 2009 had their computers monitored and their phone calls intercepted on the instructions of their British government hosts, according to documents seen by the Guardian. Some delegates were tricked into using internet cafes which had been set upBrazil takes urgent steps to ease record drought
BRASILIA. — Brazil’s government has taken emergency measures to ease a worst drought in the last 50 years that is plaguing its north-eastern region, where the country’s poorest population lives.Uganda imposes tax on mobile cash transfers
KAMPALA. – Uganda is to impose a 10 percent tax on cash transfers by mobile phones and other money transfer operators. International remittances from Ugandans living abroad are also affected. Finance Minister Maria Kiwanuka said she also planned to raise US$16,5 million by imposing a levy on incoming international phone calls.Graca Machel thanks well-wishers
CAPE TOWN. — Graca Machel, wife of former South African President Nelson Mandela yesterday thanked South Africans and the whole world for their well wishes for Mandela who has been hospitalised for the 10th day yesterday.
Iranian president-elect speaks out
TEHRAN. — Iran’s president-elect Hassan Rouhani said yesterday that his administration will build “constructive interaction” with the world.“Today, a new opportunity for interaction with the world has emerged,” said Rouhani at his maiden Press conference after his election.