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Australia is to investigate reports that asylum seekers at one of its detention camps in Papua New Guinea (PNG) are being raped and tortured. Kevin Rudd, Australia’s prime minister, has…
Arsenal’s Suarez bid ridiculed
LIVERPOOL owner John W Henry appeared to ridicule Arsenal’s latest bid for Luis Suarez yesterday after the Gunners reportedly tabled an offer of just over £40 million for the striker.…
Mining industry poised for continued growth
Gibson Mhaka Business Correspondent THE mining industry is poised for continued growth amid indications that last year it contributed an estimated 16 percent to the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP)…
Gorowa begins work as Warriors coach
Harare Bureau NEW Warriors coach Ian Gorowa says football is a game judged by results but he will not put himself under pressure when he guides the national team in…
Manyuchi’s boxing ranking rises
Sports Editor CHARLES Manyuchi’s Africa Boxing Union title triumph in the welterweight division against Burkina Faso’s Patrice Sou Toke last month has landed him in position 101 in the listings…
Parties take campaigns through social media
Kennedy Mavhumashava SOCIAL media has become the new frontier for political contestation in Zimbabwe. Zanu-PF, masters at the use of traditional tools of political messaging and mass mobilisation like rallies,…
Mine Entra opens on good note
Business Reporter This year’s edition of Mine Entra opened on a good note with all exhibitors in place by late afternoon, Zimbabwe International Trade Fair Company chairman Mr Bekithemba Nkomo…
South Sudan president fires cabinet
South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir Mayardit has dismissed Vice President Riek Machar Teny, along with all his cabinet ministers. Heavily armed South Sudanese troops and police guarded key government institutions…
Killing the Old Man of the Sea
Mabasa Sasa GLOBALISATION has been the in-word for a couple of decades now. Daily, we are told that we live in a global village and that we are increasingly becoming…
Deadly gang violence hits western Mexico
At least 22 people were killed in clashes between heavily armed gang members and federal police in six towns in Mexico’s western Michoacán state, the interior ministry announced. “So far,…