adminEditorial Comment: Hope for agricultural sector
THERE is renewed optimism for economic turnaround going into the summer cropping season set to start in a few weeks time. This comes on the back of Zanu-PF’s resounding victory…
Harmonised elections free, fair, peaceful and credible
Muchadura Dube The recently held and successfully concluded July 31 2013 harmonised elections had all the ingredients of free, fair, peaceful and credible elections.
Iran, not Syria, is the West’s real target
Robert Fisk BEFORE the stupidest Western war in the history of the modern world begins — I am, of course, referring to the attack on Syria that we all yet…
US court summons ailing Sonia Gandhi
NEW DELHI. — A US federal district court has issued summons against the ruling Indian Congress party president Sonia Gandhi for shielding party officials allegedly involved in inciting attacks on…
Brazil senate to probe US spying
BRASILIA. — Brazil’s Senate formed an Investigative Parliamentary Commission on Tuesday to follow up on reports that the US National Security Agency spied on President Dilma Rousseff.
I didn’t set the red line, says Obama
STOCKHOLM. — Barack Obama appealed to the international community to back his plan to punish Syria with a military strike, saying the “world had set a red line” over the…
Syria mobilising its allies
DAMASCUS. — Syria said yesterday it was mobilising its allies against a possible US-led military strike over a suspected gas attack and would never give in, even if a third…
Defence chiefs meet over DRC
KAMPALA. — Defence chiefs and foreign ministers from Africa’s Great Lakes region met yesterday in the latest bid to end fighting in resource-rich eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
Language, culture disparities cripple Chinese literature
BEIJING. — A contest to translate contemporary Chinese literature has been launched amid concerns that language and cultural disparities have crippled China’s literature from going overseas.
Swedish companies mull sustainable water management
STOCKHOLM. — Three Swedish fashion retail companies announced yesterday that they were expanding their co-operation with the Stockholm International Water institute to improve sustainable water management practices at their supplying…