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DECLARATION OF THE ACP PARLIAMENTARY ASSEMBLY ON THE EU SANCTIONS ON ZIMBABWE The Parliamentary Assembly of the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group of states, meeting in its 34th session…
Cops smash 240 000 beer bottles
KANO — Police enforcing Islamic law in Nigeria’s city of Kano publicly destroyed some 240 000 bottles of beer yesterday, the latest move in a wider crackdown on behaviour deemed “immoral”…
Tuaregs stop PM from visiting town
BAMAKO — Tuareg demonstrators yesterday occupied an airport runway to prevent Mali’s Prime Minister Oumar Tatam Ly visiting the rebel-controlled northeastern town of Kidal, officials said. Protesters said Malian soldiers…
Envoy recalled
SANTO DOMINGO – The Dominican Republic has recalled its ambassador to Haiti for consultations and suspended a bilateral dialogue in a dispute over its stripping citizenship rights of Dominicans of…
South Korea defies China air zone
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Indian cyclone weakens, no threat
BHUBANESWAR (India) — A severe cyclone weakened before it made landfall on India’s east coast yesterday, and an official said it no longer posed a serious threat to thousands of…
China dismisses Japanese claim of altering status quo
BEIJING — China’s Air Defence Identification Zone (ADIZ) over the East China Sea is completely justified and legitimate, Defence Ministry spokesman Yang Yujun said yesterday. Yang’s comments were in response…
Interest-driven interventions versus special economic zones
Gatsha Mazithulela IN this series of articles, I have discussed the need to translate national policy into industry specific drives, the need for singular focus within a very wide choice…
Domestic violence leaves permanent scars on society
Gibson Mhaka IT is exactly 8am at the Bulawayo Civil Court at Tredgold, the building which houses Bulawayo Magistrates Courts. Like animals heading for slaughter, scores of women sit on…
DeMbare, Caps fans in How Mine camp
Sikhumbuzo Moyo Senior Sports Reporter HOW Mine coach Philani “Beefy” Ncube is banking on the support of Dynamos and Caps United fans to cheer his side to victory over Highlanders…