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Manfred Nowak, the UN special rapporteur on torture, has been deported from Zimbabwe a day after being detained by security officials on arrival in Harare, a UN official has said.
Nowak told reporters after arriving in South Africa that his...
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While the majority of Zimbabweans the world over watching events play out in a criminal court in Harare, where MDC politician Roy Bennett is answering to charges that...
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Nicolas Sarkozy was last night accused of living in ‘total fantasy’ after claiming he was among the first people to tear down the Berlin Wall.
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Two of Russia’s most prominent human rights organizations say their work has been thrown into jeopardy by municipal efforts to evict them from their offices.
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The growing number of police killings of suspected criminals in Rio de Janeiro’s war on drugs is linked to bonuses now paid to “brave” police...
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Drugs tests are to be offered to all Italian MPs and senators from tomorrow in a bid to prove their parliament is not an ‘opium smoking den’.
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Reporting from Culiacan, Mexico - In the story making the rounds here in Mexico’s drug capital, the setting is a beauty parlor. A woman with wealth obtained...
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It is not only spies, spooks and Bohemians who look back on life before the fall of the Wall with nostalgia. For 40 years Berlin was the front line between East and...
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The border between Uganda and Democratic Republic of Congo is being redrawn — by a river!
Technocrats from the two countries are quietly working to head off a...
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The gay sex scene alone would be enough to ban “This Area Is Under Quarantine” in many countries.
Filmed in a Bangkok hotel room, the scene offers lots of...
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Iran accused three detained Americans of spying Monday, signaling Tehran intends to put them on trial. It drew a sharp U.S. response that the charges are baseless...
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Yesterday, the first female mayor of Baltimore, Sheila Dixon, went on trial accused of stealing gift cards meant for the poor and using them to fund lavish shopping...
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Yemen’s President, Ali Abdullah Saleh, flew into the Gulf of Aden on Nov. 7 to celebrate the first exports of liquefied natural gas from a sprawling $4.5 billion...
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Looking around East Africa, indeed Africa, you can see the diplomatic space has become quite black.
A few weeks ago, Nairobi was turned upside down with the MTV Africa...
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China has executed nine men, including eight from the Muslim Uighur minority, for crimes committed during July riots that killed 200 people in far western Xinjiang...
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The two Koreas briefly exchanged naval fire Tuesday along their disputed western sea border, with a North Korean ship suffering heavy damage before retreating, South...
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The city of romance got a lesson in love’s hard knocks Sunday, as thousands flocked to the French capital’s first divorce fair.
In France, nearly one out...
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In a SPIEGEL interview, the national security adviser to the White House, General James Jones, has expressed strong skepticism regarding the request of General Stanley...
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A landslide triggered by torrential seasonal rains swept through a hilly region in southern India, killing at least 39 people, an official said Tuesday.
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Some dude outside my supermarket just asked me to sign a petition to legalize marijuana. Apparently he was so high that he forgot he’s in California, where pot is...
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Injecting itself aggressively into the health-care debate, the Roman Catholic Church in America has emerged as a major political force with the potential to upend a key...
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Zimbabwe’s former information minister, reputed to be the mastermind behind Zimbabwe’s harsh media laws, has rejoined President Robert Mugabe’s...
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President Robert Mugabe has accused the West of using “filthy clandestine divisive antics” to undermine Zimbabwe’s power-sharing government.
He again...
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South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma has urged Zimbabwe’s political rivals to work together if they are to see foreign aid restored.
He said the...
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Gay men and lesbians in Zimbabwe are hoping for an end to years of “hysterical homophobia” by having their rights enshrined in the new constitution.
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Mugabe’s foes - real or imagined - have a habit of falling off their mortal coils. Then there is the natural attrition of his owns allies and party members.
Just...
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There are days that Mugabe’s party do little else but make fools of themselves. But because they have wrapped themselves in legal protection and then laced the courts...
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The latest offering from Zimbabwe is that any probe which is called for is stopped at source, prevented from happening, or just plain doesn’t happen.
This is a habit...
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For almost 30 years we have read about – and experienced - Mugabe’s lies and double standards. He will spin whoever will listen a line and expects that once he has...
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The land grab began in 2000 after the Zimbabwean people voted NO in a referendum to accept a new constitution. Mugabe was angry to the point of being almost...
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There is hardly any place in Zimbabwe that Mugabe doesn’t have influence over or his laws and regulations have presided to lessen the standard of life.
And, it would...
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When the Gukurahundi was finally put to an end with the signing of the Peace Accord between Mugabe and Joshua Nkomo of ZAPU in 1987, an enquiry was ordered into the...
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Before we can take cognisance of the situation in Zimbabwe, we have to be aware that it is much easier to criticise when we are on the outside looking in, than for...
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For the last twenty-nine years, Robert Gabriel Mugabe has ruled Zimbabwe. That means that there are fully grown people in Zimbabwe who have known nothing more than...
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The Marange diamond fields in Zimbabwe are allegedly losing hundred of thousands of US dollars worth every week. That is, if we chose to believe the RBZ Governor,...
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In law, compensation is payment of damages - a type of legal remedy and refer to the money paid or awarded to a person (either natural or legal) following a successful...
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Constitutional tinkering has become a Mugabe/ZANU PF speciality - and whenever Mugabe sees a way in which to rid himself of an opponent or change the laws of the land...
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Robert Gabriel Mugabe is 84 years old. In Zimbabwean terms, he is into his third life, given that the average life expectancy in that country is less than forty years...
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I laughed out loud when I read an article on Tuesday that indicated that the security force chiefs are afraid of being murdered by their own people and want weapons to...
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The invaders came at 11pm. Fifteen of them — singing, chanting and crashing metal objects together by our windows. “Out, out,” they shouted as they surrounded our...
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