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Russia warns West against 'playing with fire'
The US and its allies are "playing with fire" by doubling down on their support for Kiev amid the conflict with Moscow, including by planning to provide Ukraine with F-16 fighter jets, Russian Foreign...Published: 28 May 2023 at 14:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe doing its best to evacuate nationals in Ukraine'
GOVERNMENT yesterday urged Zimbabwean nationals in Ukraine to get in touch with the embassy in preparation for evacuation after Russia launched a full-scale invasion of that country.This came ...Published: 25 Feb 2022 at 07:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
200 Zimbabwean students stranded in Ukraine
At least 200 Zimbabwean students are stranded in Ukraine after flights were grounded as Russia began a military offensive this week.The students have sent a plea to the Zimbabwe government to ...Published: 24 Feb 2022 at 17:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
What Zimbabwean leaders can learn from FW de Klerk's legacy
WHEN the late former Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe met the last apartheid South African leader Frederik Willem de Klerk, who died of cancer-related complications at 85 this week, in Gaborone, Bot...Published: 13 Nov 2021 at 17:38hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
China to impose sanctions on US firms
US companies involved in a potential arms sale worth US$2,2 billion to self-ruled Taiwan will face sanctions, China said, warning Washington "not to play with fire".Taiwan on Saturday defended...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 12:32hrs | 1 | by News Agencies
REWIND: South Africa war planes attack Zimbabwe, Zambia
Zimbabwe, May 19 - This morning, hours after South African commandos desc...Published: 07 Apr 2017 at 15:37hrs | 1 | by EDWARD A. GARGAN, Special to the New York Times
Donald Trump launches US air strikes against Assad regime, Russian military informed
The United States launched a military strike Thursday on a Syrian government target in response to their chemical weapons attack that killed dozens of civilians earlier in the week.On Presiden...Published: 07 Apr 2017 at 07:31hrs | | by Staff Reporter
To Decide is to Govern!
I have made a pledge to you my readers. A pledge I will always endeavour to fulfil for as long as I write. That pledge is to raise difficult questions, break taboos, speak and spill the truth, so this...Published: 27 Aug 2016 at 07:51hrs | 1 | by Nathaniel Manheru
Mugabe not the longest African serving President
Paris - The Congolese government on Tuesday claimed a landslide victory in a controversial referendum allowing President Denis Sassou Nguesso to extend a grip on power that began three decades ago....Published: 27 Oct 2015 at 15:56hrs | | by AFP
Donald Trump threatens to send Syrian refugees back home
Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump has said he would send back Syrian refugees taken in by the US if he is elected president.Trump said during a rally in New Hampshire on Wednes...Published: 01 Oct 2015 at 07:30hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Russia launches airstrikes in Syria
Russia has launched its first airstrikes in Syria, sparking concern from the US, France and Britain.The Russian defence ministry said a number of airstrikes had targeted vehicles and warehouse...Published: 30 Sep 2015 at 21:39hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe - A government at war with its people
April 18, 1980 is remembered in Zimbabwe as a day when the coin of oppression since turned sides however the texture of roughness being surprisingly different.After a protracted guerilla w...Published: 04 Jun 2015 at 10:11hrs | | by Wangu- Mine
President Obama says eradicating Islamic State will not be easy
WASHINGTON - U.S. President Barack Obama cautioned on Tuesday that wiping out a radical group like the Islamic State will not be easy and quick.The president made the comment as he has authori...Published: 27 Aug 2014 at 07:37hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Hackers take over Israeli army Twitter account
Jerusalem - Internet hackers briefly took over an Israeli army Twitter account, the military said on Friday, posting an alarming message that a nuclear facility had been hit by rocket fire.Isr...Published: 05 Jul 2014 at 06:38hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe wants 'popular uprisings' criminalised
Zimbabwe has flatly refused to identify itself as an ally of the popular uprisings in North Africa, amid debate in the African Union (AU) that the putsch represented real democratic revolutions....Published: 02 Jun 2014 at 12:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Russian President warns on arming Syrian rebels
Russian President Vladimir Putin cautioned the West on Friday against arming Syrian rebel forces, which he said included "terrorist" groups, and warned that a swift exit by President Bashar al-Assad r...Published: 22 Jun 2013 at 06:11hrs | | by Reuters)
Air raid - 18 civilians killed in Syria
Beirut - At least 18 civilians were killed, including two children and two women, in a Syrian air raid on a rebel-held town in the northwestern province of Idlib on Saturday, a monitoring group report...Published: 13 Apr 2013 at 17:12hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Heavy gunfire erupts in Mali
Bamako - Heavy gunfire erupted in the west of Mali's capital Bamako on Friday, as government forces exchanged fire with mutinous paratroopers, military sources and witnesses said.Government f...Published: 08 Feb 2013 at 15:26hrs | | by Reuters
Mali: Islamist fighters blow up strategic bridge
Bamako - Islamist fighters have dynamited a strategic bridge near the Niger border on the road to Gao, one of the main towns in northern Mali occupied by extremists, sources said on Friday."Th...Published: 25 Jan 2013 at 12:23hrs | | by Staff Reporter
The Arab stolen revolution
After Israel and its Western backers defeated Arab nationalism in 1967, a solicitous Nizar Qabbani emotionally called for the rekindling of the Arab fighting spirit.He wrote in a poem:...Published: 09 Jan 2012 at 04:59hrs | | by Reason Wafawarova
Syria may have been pursuing atomic bomb with Pakistani nuclear expert: UN
WASHINGTON - UN investigators have identified a previously unknown complex in Syria that bolsters suspicions that the Syrian government worked with A.Q. Khan, the father of Pakistan's atomic bomb, to...Published: 01 Nov 2011 at 22:43hrs | | by Moyo Roy
Gaddafi is in the desert planning a fight-back: Military chief
Muammar Gaddafi is in a desert town outside Tripoli planning a fight-back, a Libyan military chief said on Thursday, as Libya's interim rulers conferred with world powers on reshaping a nation torn by...Published: 01 Sep 2011 at 09:45hrs | | by Moyo Roy
Father kills teenage daughters raped by Gaddafi soldiers
A father slit the throats of his three teenage daughters in an "honour killing" after they were raped by Gaddafi loyalists during the siege of the port city of Misrata.The father is said to ha...Published: 31 Aug 2011 at 07:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
International media lied (propaganda) as Gaddafi's son re-emerges
The son and heir apparent of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, Saif al-Islam, resurfaced free and defiant early today a day after rebels claimed to have captured him, boasting in a bizarre reappearance...Published: 23 Aug 2011 at 04:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Britain to send more warplanes to Libya
Britain said on Friday it will send four more Tornado warplanes to support the NATO mission in Libya, in addition to the 12 already deployed."These are the aircraft which are particularly well...Published: 15 Jul 2011 at 08:18hrs | | by Reuters
NATO targets Gaddafi communications, hits state broadcaster
NATO air raids targeted the communications of Muammar Gaddafi's battered regime in Libya, hitting offices of the state broadcaster and his military intelligence headquarters, says officials.T...Published: 07 Jun 2011 at 06:48hrs | | by Sapa-AFP
Nato launches intensive air raids on Tripoli
Tripoli - Nato warplanes on Saturday launched intensive air raids on Tripoli and its eastern suburbs, where several explosions were heard, an AFP reporter and w...Published: 04 Jun 2011 at 16:06hrs | | by Moyo Roy
CIA chief says Gadhafi alive after hit on house
TRIPOLI, Libya – The CIA chief says he believes Moammar Gadhafi is still alive, despite a NATO airstrike that reduced much of the Libyan leader's family compound to rubble.Ga...Published: 04 May 2011 at 08:10hrs | | by AP
World powers offer cash to Libyan rebels
France and Britain agreed to step up military pressure on Muammar Gaddafi's regime after world powers meeting in Doha promised Libya's rebels cash and the means to defend themselves....Published: 14 Apr 2011 at 06:57hrs | | by Byo24News
Libyans form human shield to protect Gaddaffi
Tripoli - Thousands of Libyans packed into Muammar Gaddafi's heavily fortified Tripoli compound on Saturday to form a human shield against possible air strikes...Published: 19 Mar 2011 at 19:34hrs | | by Byo24NEWS
Gaddafi bombs oil town of Marsa el-Brega
Libyan warplanes Thursday struck the rebel-held oil port in the eastern town of Marsa el-Brega, as pro-Gadhafi forces and rebels fought for control of the strategic oil installation, t...Published: 03 Mar 2011 at 12:05hrs | | by Byo24News
I will kill my people if the West intervenes: Gaddafi
Muammar Gaddafi warns "thousands" would die if the West intervened in Libya as rebels repulsed a fierce onslaught by his forces on a key oil town.As the world clamoured ...Published: 03 Mar 2011 at 07:44hrs | | by Byo24News
Eastern Libya out of Gadaffi's control - soldiers
Eastern Libya is no longer under the control of Muammar Gaddafi after a revolt spread like wildfire across the country, soldiers who no longer backed the Libyan leader told a Reuters corresponde...Published: 22 Feb 2011 at 14:45hrs | 13 | by Byo24News
Gaddafi dismissed reports that he has fled
Libya's leader, Muammar Gaddafi, has dismissed reports that he has fled the country, calling them "malicious rumours" spread by "hating channels".Speaking to state TV from outside a ruined bu...Published: 21 Feb 2011 at 21:53hrs | | by Byo24NEWS
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