adminCommittee seeks $90k for Paralympics Games
Ngqabutho Moyo Sports Reporter THE Zimbabwe Paralympic Committee is looking for about $100,000 for their team’s preparations and participation in the 2016 Rio deJainero Olympics set for Brazil.
Putin visits Egypt in bid to expand influence
CAIRO — Russian President Vladimir Putin visited Egypt yesterday as Moscow looks to expand its reach in the Arab world’s most populous country at a time when Cairo-Washington ties remain…
Boko Haram leader vows to defeat regional force
KANO — Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau vowed in a new video released yesterday that the group would defeat a regional force fighting the extremists in Nigeria’s far northeast, Niger…
Munich meeting ends with Europe-US clash over Ukraine
MUNICH — The just-concluded Munich Security Conference underlined international security cooperation, yet divergences over the Ukraine crisis remain — not only between the West and Russia, but also inside the…
Somali parliament approves cabinet after wrangling
SOMALIA’S parliament approved a 25-strong cabinet yesterday, a pivotal step towards preparing the war-torn nation for a vote on a new constitution and presidential elections in 2016.
Suicide attack kills at least 18 in Baghdad
BAGHDAD — A suicide bomber set off an explosive-laden vest in a busy Baghdad square crowded with rush-hour commuters early yesterday, killing at least 18 people and wounding dozens, officials…
Plane carrying soccer stars found after 50 years
SANTIAGO — Climbers in Chile’s Andes say they have found the wreckage of a missing plane that disappeared more than half a century ago with a team of soccer stars…
Mourners fed food from freezer containing babies’ bodies
EAST London — A shocked cleaner has described how she found the bodies of four babies stored amongst food in a refrigerator and freezer in an Eastern Cape house over…
MDC-T members defy Tsvangirai ban
Nduduzo Tshuma and Pamela Shumba Chronicle Reporters MDC-T members have defied embattled party leader Morgan Tsvangirai’s ban on them discussing party matters on social media platforms. Tsvangirai last Wednesday ordered…
City lawyer faces $46k lawsuit
Mashudu Netsianda Senior Court Reporter A SENIOR partner at leading Bulawayo law firm, Cheda and Partners, Mlamuli Ncube, is being sued for $46,500 by a city businessman after he was…