adminRicciardo triumphs in Hungary — Hamilton third
Daniel Ricciardo won the second grand prix of his short but brilliant career here but a thrilling Hungarian Grand Prix was once again dominated by the fight between the two…
Mine Entra attracts fewer exhibitors
Senior Business Reporter A TOTAL of 218 exhibitors have participated at this year’s edition of Mine Entra expo occupying 93 percent of the space that the organisers of the event…
PPC gets $18m for new plant
Tinashe Makichi Harare Bureau PPC Zimbabwe has secured about $18 million for the construction of a new cement plant in Harare. The cement company says construction of the new plant…
Hamas calls Israel truce terms ‘unacceptable’
Hamas has said an Israeli offer to extend a humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza is unacceptable because it does not include provision for the withdrawal of Israeli troops and for residents…
US evacuates Libya embassy as fighting rages
The United States has shut its embassy in Libya and evacuated its diplomats to neighbouring Tunisia under US military escort after fighting intensified between rival militias in the capital’s streets,…
Experts cancel visit to Ukraine crash site
International experts have been forced to abandon their plans to visit the site where the Malaysian airliner crashed because of fighting between pro-Russian rebels and Ukrainian troops in the area.
Pope Francis makes plea for peace
Rome — Pope Francis made an emotional plea for peace yesterday in an impromptu addition to comments delivered at his weekly Angelus address in Saint Peter’s Square.
Malema threatens to shut down Joburg businesses
Cape Town — Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema is planning a mass action big enough to shut down businesses in Johannesburg when his supporters return to protest against the…
UN worried over Myanmar’s displaced Muslims
The new UN human rights envoy for Myanmar has expressed serious concern about conditions in camps for more than 100,000 mostly minority Muslims displaced by violence led by Buddhist extremists,…
Video shows American suicide bomber in Syria
An al-Qaeda-linked group fighting in Syria has released video of the first American to carry out a suicide attack in the country’s civil war, showing him smiling and saying he…