adminSpurs get another Belgian
LONDON. — Tottenham Hotspur have captured Belgium winger Nacer Chadli on a £6million deal from FC Twente.Chadli, who is 23 and can play on either flank, will join fellow Belgians Mousa Dembele and Jan Vertonghen if he agrees a five-year deal as expected.
Dina Pule faces corruption charges
JOHANNESBURG. — The Hawks are investigating corruption charges laid by the DA against former communications minister Dina Pule, a spokesperson confirmed yesterday.“Yes, the matter was reported in the Western Cape Central police station, but now the matter is in our hands. We are giving it the attention it deserves,” said Captain Paul
Caps factory goes under the hammer
Martin Kadzere and Tinashe MakichiDRUG manufacturing company CAPS Pharmaceuticals has collapsed after the firm’s factory premises in Harare’s Southerton industrial area was last week auctioned for US$1,5 million cash.
Tunisian cops seize weapons
TUNIS. — Tunisian anti-terrorist police have seized large quantities of weapons and ammunition in the capital Tunis as part of a nationwide operation, Mosaique FM reported yesterday, quoting the Al Chourouk daily.Iran raps Egypt forces’ raid on Al Alam TV
TEHRAN. — Iranian Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Mohammad Hosseini said yesterday that the Egyptian security forces’ raid on the office of Al Alam satellite TV channel in Cairo is “unacceptable”, Press TV reported.Syrian president Assad now stronger: Cameron
LONDON. — Biritish prime minister David Cameron has admitted that the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, has strengthened his position in recent months as he warned that the country faced a “depressing trajectory”.
Fire guts feminist group’s office
PARIS. — A pre-dawn fire damaged the Paris office of the radical topless feminist group Femen yesterday in what police were treating as an accident.But the group called it a “disturbing coincidence”, noting that the Paris branch, headquartered in a working-class district in the northeast of the city, had recently received a phone
Iraqis slam govt over deadly wave of bombings
BAGHDAD. — Iraqis roundly condemned the authorities yesterday for failing to stop a wave of deadly unrest including attacks that killed dozens of people the day before.Attacks yesterday itself killed another 12 people, as the country struggles against a surge in violence that has plagued it since the beginning of the year.
Japanese premier wins big in upper house
TOKYO. — Voters handed Prime Minister Shinzo Abe a thumping victory in upper house elections yesterday, exit polls showed, likely ushering in a new period of stability for politically volatile Japan.
Morgan Tsvangirai’s GMO economic vision
THIS is election; two radically different economic approaches are being tabled before the electorate. One party, MDC-T, speaks of jobs. This sounds seductive until one considers that the Marikana miners who were massacred in South African had jobs. The farm labourers who lived in komboni’s had jobs. The men who lift punishingly heavy