adminDowned Russian jet: Turkey to hand over pilot’s body
ANKARA.- The body of the pilot killed when Turkey shot down a Russian jet was taken to Turkey late on Saturday to be handed over to Russia, Prime Minister Ahmet…
Cuba to expand digital TV transmission
HAVANA.- Cuba will extend digital television transmissions to over 60 percent of Cuban residents starting Saturday, thanks to Chinese technology. There will be 62 transmitters across the country, including the first…
UN chief slams attacks on Malian peacekeepers
UNITED NATIONS. – UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Saturday condemned a deadly attack on United Nations peacekeepers in north Mali earlier in the day, stressing “the urgent need to bring…
Trump ‘steam-rolling Bush, Rubio’ in Florida
NEW YORK.- US presidential candidate Donald Trump says new polls show that he is leading his Republican rivals Senator Marco Rubio and former Florida Governor Jeb Bush in their home…
EDITORIAL COMMENT: President Xi deserves hero’s welcome
President Mugabe first mooted the idea of a “Look East” policy around 2003. This, at first, looked like a knee-jerk reaction to efforts by the European Union and the United…
Rabison Shumba’s inspirational toolkit
Stanely Mushava Literature Today Book: Showers of Inspiration Author: Rabison Shumba Publisher: Greatness Factory Publishers (2014) ISBN: 978-1-312-29530-8 In Rabison Shumba’s terms of reception, books must be toolkits for self-development…
Ode in ‘Memory of the Future’
Elliot Ziwira @The Bookstore “If I know who I am, I will be free”, so reasons the unnamed narrator in Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man”. So certain is he that the…
Chinese President Xi’s visit is forever
Tichaona Zindoga Political Editor The visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping to Zimbabwe tomorrow, his first and only the second by a Chinese leader, has an eternally feel good vibe…
China: Cooperation with Africa
Dan Glazebrook Correspondent Nigeria’s Boko Haram are now officially the deadliest terror group in the world. That they have reached this position is a direct consequence of British Prime minister…
Research underpins agriculture
George Chisoko Senior Assistant Editor Whenever the word agriculture is mentioned, what quickly comes to the minds of many people is simply cropping in terms of the availability of inputs.…