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Midlands Correspondent A 30-YEAR-OLD man from Gokwe South who deflowered his teenage stepdaughter and infected her with a sexually transmitted infection (STI) has been sentenced 30 years in prison. The…
Nurses fail exam
Midlands Bureau STUDENT nurses who sat for their final third year examinations in March at Gweru Provincial Hospital failed to make it with only seven out of a class 37…
Court rejects Banda’s bid to halt results publication
Blantyre — Malawi’s high court has thrown out President Joyce Banda’s application to block the release of election results, three days after the chaotic vote began. Banda’s People’s Party (PP)…
UN blacklists Nigeria’s Boko Haram
The UN Security Council committee on al-Qaeda sanctions has blacklisted Nigeria’s Boko Haram, a month after the armed group kidnapped hundreds of schoolgirls. Nigeria, which until recently had been reluctant…
ICC gives Katanga 12-year sentence
The International Criminal Court has sentenced Germain Katanga, a rebel commander from the Democratic Republic of Congo, to 12 years in jail for arming an ethnic militia group that carried…
UN chief, heads of state to attend Zuma’s inauguration
Pretoria – Foreign dignitaries attending President Jacob Zuma’s inauguration include heads of state and government, deputy heads, and former heads, the international relations department said yesterday. “International Relations and Co-operation…
Dhlakama says intends to run for presidency
MAPUTO – Mozambique’s Renamo opposition leader Afonso Dhlakama said yesterday he intended to run as a candidate in an October 15 presidential election, but demanded safety guarantees from the government…
Ukraine in ‘full-scale civil war’ — Putin
Saint Petersburg – Russian President Vladimir Putin said yesterday that the crisis in Ukraine had evolved into a full-scale civil war, blaming Washington for backing the overthrow of former president…
‘Miracle baby’ survives 11-storey fall in US
A 15-month-old US boy has survived an 11-storey fall from a balcony at his parents’ apartment in Minneapolis, Minnesota, local media reported last week. Musa Dayib has been nicknamed “the…
Guinea-Bissau presidential candidate Nabiam concedes run-off defeat
BISSAU – The losing candidate in a run-off election for Guinea-Bissau’s presidency, Nuno Gomes Nabiam, said on Thursday he accepted the results after initially rejecting them citing alleged fraud. Nabiam’s…