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A NEWSPAPER article in the issue of March 9, 2014 revealed that recent research indicates that the Johane Marange sect is one of the worst perpetrators of child marriages in…
End in sight for Masvingo water woes
Walter Mswazie Masvingo Correspondent A CHINESE engineering firm, CAMAC, has expressed interest in financing a $52 million water reticulation project for Masvingo City Council in a move set to ease…
Missing Malaysia Airlines Plane’s Turns Suggest Control of Aircraft
Newly revealed information suggests a missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner made a turn up the Strait of Malacca subsequent to a previously reported turn to the west that occurred around the…
Missing jet may be in Indian Ocean
Kuala Lumpur — India said yesterday it was expanding its search for the missing Malaysian jetliner to seas west of the Andaman Islands as the international hunt shifted toward the…
Bloodied legs shown at Pistorius court
Pretoria — A picture of the bloodied prosthetic legs of Oscar Pistorius was shown at his murder trial on Thursday as his defence probed the State’s apparent incomplete analysis of…
Russia vows to veto US draft on Ukraine at UN
The US has circulated a draft resolution to the UN Security Council that would declare tomorrow’’s planned referendum on independence for Ukraine’s Crimea region illegal but Russia has pledged to…
Pope Francis defends ‘slum priests’
On his first anniversary as pontiff, Pope Francis has defended “slum priests” from the accusation their advocacy for the downtrodden reflects a different, leftist church that is remote from conservative…
Youth gangs watch over troubled CAR capital
Bangui — Small bands of youths have taken up stations on the roads into their home districts of the violence-ridden Central African Republic capital Bangui, ready to warn residents of…
At genocide trial, Rwandan ex-intel chief defiant
Paris — A former Rwandan intelligence chief says his innocence “needs no more proof” as arguments concluded in France’s first trial over Rwanda’s genocide. After five-and-a-half weeks of hearings, the…
Teacher killed and set on fire
A Buddhist teacher was fatally shot on her way to school and then set ablaze in southern Thailand, becoming the 170th teacher killed by suspected Muslim rebels in the country’s…