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Zimbabwe : senatorial poll results
After a 24-hour pause, election officials in Zimbabwe Friday resumed announcing senatorial poll results, with the ruling party taking a one-seat lead. A total...
Outcome of Mugabe meeting : Plans to buy time
ZANU-PF party has decided that its leader Robert Mugabe should contest a run-off vote against opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai if neither wins a...
Zimbabwe : Arrest of New York Times’ journalist fuels alarm
A global media freedom watchdog, Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has expressed alarm over the arrest and detention of "New York Times" correspondent, Barry...
Morocco : Mohamed Serraj attacked
The general secretary of the moroccan press national syndicate Mohamed Daw Serraj, (SNPM from its french acronym, Syndicat National de la Presse Maroccaine), is...
Nigerian Navy constructs its own ship
The Nigerian Navy (NN) has started work on the country's first locally-made warship, which is expected to be ready in September, the Chief of...
An archbishop’s sex scandal that turned political
A case which is currently before the courts in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe’s second capital could easily find a place in the Guinness Book of records...
Why Mugabe has called for an emergency meeting
ZANU PF politburo meets today in Harare to discuss the biggest challenge to President Robert Mugabe’s 28-year rule. Ruling Zanu-PF party sources said the...
Obama’s fundraiser, the Pelosi Club and Clinton’s concern
Barack Obama’s record-breaking online fund-raising continued in March, netting $40m (£20m, €25m) from almost half a million donors in spite of his defeats to...
A 50m dollar bill and MDC’s first promised sack
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) today introduced a new Z$50 million note to deal with rampant shortages of cash in an economy...
New bank notes for Zimbabwe
The Central Bank in Zimbabwe on Thursday introduced higher denomination ZWD25 million and ZWD50 million bank notes, as inflation surge d to 165,000 per...
Zimbabwe : Inflation at 165 000 %
It seems it never rains, but pours for Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe.
Hours after elections officials Thursday declared his party had lost for the first...
Parties tie in zimbabwe senate polls
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) Thursday began announcing the delayed results of senatorial elections held at the weekend, with the ruling party and opposition...
Multiple French murder suspect in court escape
Sidi Ould Sidina, an alleged member of the terrorist group suspected to have shot dead four French tourists 24 December 2007 near the city...
UN and AU in historic meeting
The 15 Ambassadors in the UN Security Council will hold a historic meeting on 16 April with the 15 members of the African Union's...
If only London could become the French capital
The "official" reason behind French President, Nicolas Sarkozy’s visit last week to the banks of the Thames river was to rekindle Franco-British relations.
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Telephone services in Zimbabwe jammed
Fixed and mobile phone lines have been jammed as Zimbabweans try to find out the outcome of their elections.
from our correspondent...
Zimbabwe elections : Makoni to decide presidential winner
The MDC’s stunning success in the hinterlands –for long the bedrock of Mugabe’s success – was the key to unlocking Mugabe’s stranglehold on power....
Zimbabwe’s new opposition : How Mugabe’s close allies won
ZANU PF has lost control of Zimbabwe’s parliament in the biggest power shift since the country won independence from Britain in 1980. Robert...
Zimbabwe’s opposition no more the Opposition
Taking the leading position in the general election vote count increases the opposition’s chances of winning the presidential elections against Robert Mugabe. The opposition...
Why more babies are snoring
According to a new British study, 10% of children under the age of 4 snore
every night. In fact, only 40% of children are free...
Europe intervenes in Zimbabwe election stalemate
The European Union on Wednesday made an urgent appeal to the Zimbabwe election commission to publish without delay the official results of the 29...
UN Secretary General demands transparency in Zimbabwe elections
UN Secretary- General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday stressed the need for "the utmost transparency" during the counting and tabulation of votes from last weekend's...
Obama compared with Bill : Hillary’s dream shaky
Hillary Clinton's chances of winning the Democratic presidential nomination are now anywhere from 5 per cent to 20 per cent. By rights she should...
An Ecstasy of Folly, Prophecy and Authority in Early Christianity
Who is a true prophet ?
Who has real access to divine realms of knowledge ?
Early Christian communities accused each other’s prophets of...
Soldiers pressured to adopt fundamentalist Christian beliefs
Soldiers pressured to adopt fundamentalist Christian beliefs ’Widespread violations of religious freedom in US military’
Source : AP
Tokapa, Kansas, Dec 19 : A foudation that...
The Trial of the Templars
2nd Edition Malcolm Barber University of Reading Paperback
The Templars fought against Islam in the crusader east for nearly two centuries.
During that time the...
The French Wars of Religion, 1562–1629
2nd Edition Series : New Approaches to European History (No. 36) Mack P. Holt George Mason University, Virginia Hardback
This book is a new edition...
Roman Religion
Examining sites that are familiar to many modern tourists, Valerie Warrior avoids imposing a modern perspective on the topic by using the testimony of...
What the Bible says about homosexuality
Under what circumstances this condemnation became part of the jewish, christian and moslem communities is a question that has been widely argued.
By Philippe...
France asked to the dignity of illegal migrants
The chairman of the International Federation of Human Rights (FIDH), Souhayr Belhassen here Tuesday called on France to respect the dignity of illegal migrants...