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NEW YORK CITY – Syrian opposition leaders Tuesday openly took issue with the US government’s failure to launch a missile attack on the Syrian regime and pressed for assurances of US support…
KENYA UPDATE: Al-Shebaab claim 137 hostages killed in Nairobi mall siege
NAIROBI – Somalia’s al-Shebaab insurgents claimed Wednesday 137 hostages they had seized died in a Nairobi shopping mall siege, figures impossible to verify and higher than the number of people officially registered…
BREAKING NEWS: British national arrested in Nairobi mall attack: London
LONDON – A British national has been arrested in Nairobi over the bloody attack on a shopping mall by armed Islamists, a spokeswoman for the Foreign Office said on Wednesday.
UN chief calls for innovative partnerships
UNITED NATIONS — UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moonMonday galvanised heads of state, business leaders and philanthropists into joint action against extreme poverty, hunger and disease, to propel the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)…
Kenya long seen as key Israeli ally in turbulent region
JERUSALEM – Israel, which is said to have aided Kenya during the deadly attack on a Nairobi mall, has long viewed East Africa as a region of major strategic and…
Dozens of Americans recruited by Somalia’s al-Shabaab
CHICAGO – Dozens of Americans have been lured away from comfortable homes to join Somalia’s al-Shabaab insurgents, the Islamist group behind the bloody attack on a Kenyan mall.
8th Parliament sits
Harare Bureau THE First Session of the Eighth Parliament started business yesterday with some Ministers, Deputy Ministers and backbenchers standing after they failed to secure seats as the Chamber could…
President arrives in New York
From Tendai Mugabe at the UNITED NATIONS, New York PRESIDENT Mugabe yesterday joined several leaders among them monarchs and kings for the official opening of the 68th session of the…
Prof Moyo jets into Bulawayo
Senior Reporter THE Minister of Information, Media and Broadcasting Services, Professor Jonathan Moyo, will be in Bulawayo tomorrow to meet media practitioners in the city. In a statement yesterday, the…
Dr Nkomo’s statue up in two weeks
Senior Reporter THE statue of the late Vice-President Dr Joshua Mqabuko Nyongolo Nkomo will be erected in about two weeks’ time at the intersection of 8th Avenue and Main Street…