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BARCELONA. — Argentina star Lionel Messi, one of the world’s highest-paid athletes, goes on trial in Barcelona tomorrow for allegedly defrauding Spain of over four million euros in unpaid taxes.
Hamilton ends wait with Monaco win
MONACO. — World champion Lewis Hamilton ended his six-month wait for a win yesterday when he secured an unexpected and skilful victory for Mercedes in an incident-filled Monaco Grand Prix. Taking…
Obama’s grotesque hypocrisy in Hiroshima
Bill Van Auken Correspondent Taking a side trip from a G7 summit meeting in Tokyo that was dominated by US war preparations against China, Barack Obama played the advocate of…
Sweden’s Assange problem: The District Court ruling
Binoy Kampmark Correspondent A schizophrenic aspect of the entire Assange affair from the Swedish perspective is the inability of the legal establishment to let go. Despite the contrarian wishes of…
ZB engages central bank over high NPLs
Golden Sibanda Senior Business Reporter ZB Holdings says its non-performing loans are unlikely to fall below the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe set threshold of below 10 percent by June and has…
Malcolm X at 91: A foremost revolutionary Pan-Africanist
Norman (Otis) Richmond aka Jalali Correspondent Malcolm X is widely credited with spreading Black nationalism and revolutionary Pan-Africanism in the Western Hemisphere. On a visit to Nigeria, he was given…
Govt assures schools on BEAM payments
Walter Nyamukondiwa Chinhoyi Bureau Government has assured schools that fees for disadvantaged children under the Basic Education Assistance Model (BEAM) will be paid to schools as funds become available. This comes…
Zim makes progress on health
Paidamoyo Chipunza Senior Health Reporter Zimbabwe continues to make progress in improving maternal, child and general health throughout the country, the preliminary Zimbabwe Demographic Health Survey (ZDHS) results have revealed.
Buhari to keep Delta amnesty programme
Lagos. — Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari vowed yesterday to keep and “re-engineer” a controversial amnesty programme for Niger delta militants designed to stem attacks that have slashed oil exports but…
Businessman accumulates $71k maintenance arrears
Walter Nyamukondiwa Chinhoyi Bureau KADOMA businessman Jameson Rushwaya has been summoned before a Chinhoyi magistrate for defaulting on child maintenance amounting to $72 000. Rushwaya (48), who is cited in court…