The UK has been urged to submit fresh proposals within the next 48 hours to break the Brexit impasse. EU officials said they would work non-stop over the weekend if “acceptable” ideas were received by Friday to break the deadlock over the Irish backstop. The UK has said “reasonable” proposals to satisfy MPs’ concerns about…
A teacher in Tanzania has been sentenced to death for beating a pupil so badly that he died of his injuries. Judge Lameck Mlacha said Respicius Mtazangira, 51, had acted maliciously when he repeatedly hit the child with a blunt object last August. The teacher had accused 14-year-old Sperius Eradius of stealing a female teacher’s…
Embattled US R&B singer R Kelly has been taken into custody for failing to pay child support. A judge in Chicago said he would be held until he paid $161,000 (£122,000) owed to his ex-wife and their children. It comes hours after R Kelly tearfully and angrily denied allegations of sexual abuse in a TV…
Andyford Banda – PAC President People’s Alliance for Change (PAC) President Andyford Banda says there is need to address political violence in the country in order to encourage women participation in politics. Mr Banda has noted that violence is one the things that discourages women from participating in politics. He says as a way to…
The Food Agriculture Organization (FAO) says it has provided US$400, 000 towards emergency response in the country. FAO Country Representative George Okech says the money will be used to address issues to do army worms as well as fight El Nino. Dr Okech says his organization has since dispatched some officers to go round the…
The United States has called for the reversal of Prime Television’s broadcast ban. US Ambassador to Zambia Daniel Foote says the United States government remains a staunch advocate for inherent human freedoms around the world. Mr. Foote has expressed concern over the Independent Broadcast Authority’s decision to suspend Prime TV’s broadcasting license. In a statement…
Two white farmers who accused a black teenager of stealing sunflowers and threw him out of a moving van have been sentenced in South Africa. Pieter Doorewaard, 28, and Phillip Schutte, 35, were sentenced to 18 and 23 years in prison respectively for murder and other offences. The pair had accused 16-year-old Matlhomola Mosweu of…
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