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Crime Reporter MORE than 24 suspected criminals were arrested in separate incidents in Harare last month on allegations of committing a number of robberies, some armed, in and around the…
Chimhini Constitutional Court referral application dismissed
Court Reporter A HARARE magistrate Friday dismissed an application by Election Resource Centre director Tawanda Chimhini seeking the Constitutional Court of Zimbabwe to determine the constitutionality of certain provisions of…
New-born buried in backyard
Herald Reporter Police in Epworth on Friday exhumed the body of a new-born baby who was buried in the yard of a house belonging to an unnamed old woman after…
court MDC-T officials trial deferred
Court Reporter The trial of two MDC-T officials in Chitungwiza who allegedly systematically destroyed Zanu-PF campaign posters before the July general election was on Thursday deferred to November 15. The…
Dali Mpofu quits ANC, joins Malema
JOHANNESBURG. — Advocate Dali Mpofu has resigned from the African National Congress after 33 years to join Julius Malema’s Economic Freedom Fighters, City Press reported yesterday. “Internal paralysis (in the…
‘US, Egypt relations sound’
CAIRO. — United States Secretary of State John Kerry said his country is committed to working with Egypt’s interim rulers, on his first visit to Cairo since the military ousted…
Edward Snowden speaks
MOSCOW. — US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden says mass secret service surveillance poses a threat to freedom of expression and open society, in a text published in a German news…
Pakistan Taliban appoints new interim leader
ISLAMABAD. — The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, or Pakistan Taliban, has appointed Asmatullah Shaheen as their interim leader after differences emerged among various ranks to replace the former TTP Chief Hakimullah Mehsud…
IBM to pay US$866m in outstanding tax
MUMBAI. — Indian tax authorities have asked IBM’s Indian unit to pay US$866.20 million in outstanding income tax on fiscal 2009 revenue, according to media reports. In an e-mailed statement,…
‘LA airport shooter could face death penalty’
LOS ANGELES. — The 23-year-old man accused of opening fire at Los Angeles International Airport, killing an airport security officer and wounding three other people, could face the death penalty…