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TRIPOLI. – Missiles were fired at Libya’s capital Tripoli, including the city’s only functioning airport, forcing authorities to divert flights to another airport to the south, government and airport officials said yesterday, less than a week after the UN brokered a cease-fire between rival armed groups.
Defiant OZ paper reprints Serena cartoon
MELBOURNE.— An Australian newspaper defiantly republished a controversial cartoon of tennis star Serena Williams on its front-page yesterday, slapping aside “politically correct” accusations that the drawing was racist and sexist. Melbourne’s Herald Sun cartoonist Mark Knight’s caricature of Williams throwing a tantrum at the US Open, was originally printed on Monday, attracting widespread condemnation from across the world.
Forgotten man of SA rugby
CAPE TOWN. — The Springboks are in Wellington this week preparing to become the first South African side since 2009 to win a Test match in New Zealand.
‘Knowledge that cannot be changed into goods, service irrelevant’
GOVERNMENT has said the country’s education system should produce graduates that are able to turn knowledge into tangible goods and services.
Lifestyle audit for councillors
Residents here have demanded that newly sworn-in councillors should declare their individual assets to promote transparency in the running of the country’s oldest town.
City seals $480m pipe replacement deal
Harare City Council has engaged two foreign companies to structure facilities for the city’s pipe replacement programme, which is expected to cost $480 million.
Zimbabweans escape from SA prison, rearrested
South African police have rearrested another Zimbabwean who recently escaped from Kutama Sinthumule Correctional Centre outside Makhado town in Limpopo Province.
100 jumbos to be translocated
Government has embarked on a programme to translocate at least 100 elephants from the Save Valley Conservancy to Rifa Safari area in Hurungwe, Mashonaland West Province.
Dlodlo to defend title
HAVING burst on the big stahe as an unknown entity in 2013, national bodybuilding champion, Ndumiso Dlodlo, will return home to defend his title at the Sharon Hall in Milton Park in the capital.
Candy, Bazuka to launch album tonight
Dynamic duo Faith “Candy” Naphazi and Mabasa “Bazuka” Ziyambi are launching their third Album at Red Café tonight.