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KIEV — Prime Minister Mykola Azarov resigned yseterday in a bid to defuse Ukraine’s deadly crisis and preserve its unity, finally giving into months of pressure from street protesters.
Shocking Salvation Army abuse claims
SYDNEY — Children were sodomised with a garden hose, locked in outdoor cages and savagely beaten by Salvation Army majors in graphic cases of abuse detailed yesterday to an Australian…
Morsi in glass-encased cage at trial
CAIRO — Egypt’s toppled President Mohammed Morsi stood inside a glass-encased metal cage yesterday, separated from other defendants for the start of a new trial yesterday over charges from prison…
Notorious Kony ‘asks for forgiveness’
CAPE Town — Ugandan militia boss Joseph Kony has reportedly sent a letter to the government asking for forgiveness and calling for talks.
Syria army edges forward in Aleppo
BEIRUT — The Syrian army is edging its way towards southeastern Aleppo as it battles rebel fighters for control of the northern city, a monitor and a pro-government daily said…
Death toll in Nigeria market attack now at 52
KAWURI — The number of people killed in a deadly market attack blamed on Boko Haram militants in northeast Nigeria has risen to 52, police told AFP yesterday.
Nigerian disowns cat for being ‘gay’
CAPE Town — A Nigerian woman has reportedly disowned her cat of seven years for what she termed “an unnatural sex behaviour” which she finds disturbing.
Comment: Revisit system of appointing board members
The unfolding events at Premier Service Medical Aid Society, Air Zimbabwe and Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation have vindicated members of the public’s calls for full-scale investigations into operations of public enterprises.…
‘You have no right to beat me up just because you find me with another man’
Chronicle Reporter A CENTRAL Intelligence Organisation (CIO) agent fled from a house in Plumtree after being caught having a nice time with a married woman.
Civil servants to start getting new salaries on usual pay dates
Pamela Shumba Chronicle Reporter CIVIL servants will start receiving their new salaries next month, backdated to January this year, a Cabinet Minister has said. Following last week’s salary agreement, the…