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TOKYO. — Lionel Messi believes the current Barcelona side has more weapons than Pep Guardiola’s 2009 world-beaters and wants to prove it by winning a record third Club World Cup. The…
Musavezi Bridge reopens
Midlands Correspondent Deputy Minister of Transport and Infrastructural Development Cde Michael Madanha last week officially opened Musavezi Bridge in Shurugwi following the completion of the rehabilitation of the two approaches…
Rio tighten belts
RIO DE JANEIRO. — The 2016 Olympics are 80 percent ready, but Brazil’s punishing economic crisis has forced organisers to dramatically tighten their belts, they said on Monday. In the six…
Girls save to overcome challenge
Correspondents The girls from the Nairobi slum of Kibera had a problem. Government wasn’t coming to their aid. Instead, they banded together to solve it. For 15-year-old Halima Mohammed, the problem…
Verses for the poor in love
Beaven Tapureta Bookshelf Lloyd Machacha, aka Wordsmith, is a new poet who has a heart for the disadvantaged and the heartbroken. His latest anthology titled “Poverty is a Serious Crime” (2015,…
Lightning safety tips
Lightning is a sudden electrostatic discharge during an electrical storm between electrically charged regions of a cloud (called intra-cloud lightning or IC), between that cloud and another cloud (CC lightning),…
5 dead in Ethiopia protests
Addis Ababa. — Ethiopia’s government said yesterday five people had died in weeks of protests sparked by land grab fears in the country’s Oromia region, dismissing opposition reports of dozens…
ZimAlloys restarts smelter
Business Reporter FERROCHROME smelter ZimAlloys has restarted one of its smelters while talks with potential international chrome ore off takers are being finalised, an official has said. Judicial manager Mr Reggie…
Welbeck stays out
LONDON. — Danny Welbeck may not return to action in January after suffering a number of setbacks in his rehabilitation following knee surgery he underwent in September. Welbeck (25) hasn’t played…
Chris Gayle to play on
SYDNEY. — West Indian Chris Gayle insisted yesterday he has not turned his back on Test cricket and wants to pull on the whites again for his troubled national team. The…