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Nurse kills lover’s baby during delivery
Zim Now WriterA Ngundu nurse, Ngonidzashe Mugabe was on Friday sentenced to 18 years’ imprisonment after he strangled and killed his girlfriend’s baby during delivery and threw the body in a pit latri...
CBD liquor stores set for closure
Zim Now WriterThe government has moved to close operations of all bottle stores and liquor shops in the central business district in a move aimed at lessening drug and substance abuse, which has been...
UK police arrest white teenager over racial attack on Zimbabwean boy
Zim Now WriterPolice in the United Kingdom have arrested a white teenager for racially assaulting a Zimbabwean boy, who was hit and forced to kiss the white boy’s shoes.The incident was captured on vi...
Tunisian authorities rescue 587 illegal immigrants from drowning
Gulf Times - Tunisian authorities announced that they had thwarted 17 irregular migration operations and rescued 587 migrants of sub-Saharan African nationalities and Tunisians who were about to cross...
ZCTU implores govt to invest in women
Zim Now WriterThe Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions has implored government to invest in women through economic empowerment and ICT skills and implement gender responsive national budgeting. ZCTU pres...
Iceland volcano erupts for fourth time in most powerful flare-up so far
 ITV - A volcano in Iceland erupted on Saturday evening for the fourth time in three months, sending orange jets of lava into the night sky.Iceland’s Meteorological Office said the eruption opened a f...
6 candidates to slug it out in Zanu PF primaries in Mt Pleasant, Harare East
Zanu PF national political commissar, Mike BimhaZim Now WriterSix candidates will battle it out for the right to represent the party in by-elections set for April 27, 2024.Lynnette Mahlaba and Kelvin...
Police release names of victims of the Blue Circle-City Bus crash
Zim Now WriterPolice yesterday released the names of five of the nine victims of the accident involving a Blue Circle and City Bus at the Tshamunanga area of Lutumba in Beitbridge early on Saturday mo...
Teachers scoff at US$20 salary increment
Audrey GalawuThe Progressive Teacher’s Union has scoffed at government’s US$20 salary increment citing that the increase amounts to nothing.This comes as teachers’ unions had demanded that government...
South Sudan president replaces finance minister
South Sudan President Salva Kiir Xinhua - South Sudan President Salva Kiir on Friday evening sacked the minister for finance and planning Bak Barnaba Chol, replacing him with Daniel Daniel Chuong, an...