Two of European club football’s most famous names will meet at the NSC Olimpiyskiy Stadium as Real Madrid CF look to lift the Uefa Champions League trophy for the 13th time – and the third season in a row – by overcoming a Liverpool FC side in a first final for 11 years and seeking […]
Counting has started in the Irish abortion referendum, hours after exit polls suggested a landslide vote in favour of liberalising the law. Polls by The Irish Times and RTÉ suggested about 69% voted to repeal a part of the constitution that effectively bans terminations. Taoiseach (prime minister) Leo Varadkar, who supported the reforms, said it […]
The United Nations will commemorate the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers. Today, more than 96,000 uniformed personnel from 124 troop- and-police-contributing countries serve under the blue flag, alongside more than 15,000 international and national civilian staff and nearly 1,600 United Nations Volunteers. In his message to mark the Day, Secretary-General António Guterres announced that […]
Lusaka High Court has rejected Chishimba Kambwili and UPND Mazabuka Central MP Garry Nkombo’s application to join a case where two private citizens have sued the Attorney General over the Speaker’s decision to table the impeachment motion of President Edgar Lungu. When the matter came up for ruling yesterday, High Court judge Banda Bobo refused […]
The United Church of Zambia (UCZ), has welcomed the announcement by President Edgar Lungu for the Church to be part of the national dialogue process. Northern Presbytery Maybin Mulenga said the church being an impartial body will help to harmonize divergence views during deliberations. Bishop Mulenga told ZANIS in Kasama, Nothern Province, that the Church […]
Chief Lubunda of the Lunda and Chishinga people of Luapula province says Zambia will change for the better if government maintains the current pace of infrastructure development. The traditional leaders says it is good that Government is not only putting up modern hospitals and schools in urban areas but also in the rural areas. Chief […]
Minister of Home Affairs Stephen Kampyongo says there is need for government and cooperating partners to increase funding so that refugees in various camps are adequately supported. Mr Kampyongo says the country currently has recorded over 40 thousand Congolese refugees in various camps seeking asylum. He says so far various partners working with government have […]
By ALICE NACHILEMBE The New Kasumbalesa Market shelter has been completed and all the stands put in place. The project which is scheduled to be commissioned in two weeks’ time gobbled K495,000 of the Constituency Development Fund (CDF). Chililabombwe Mayor Christabel Mulala said the Shelter has a capacity to accommodate 432 marketeers. Ms Mulala said […]
Polls are open in the referendum on the Republic of Ireland’s abortion laws. The vote will decide whether to repeal a part of the constitution, known as the Eighth Amendment, which effectively bans terminations in the country. Currently, abortion is only allowed when a woman’s life is at risk, but not in cases of rape, […]
North Korea has said it is still willing to talk “at any time in any form” after US President Donald Trump abruptly cancelled his meeting with Kim Jong-un. Vice-foreign minister Kim Kye-gwan said Mr Trump’s decision was “extremely regrettable”. President Trump blamed the North’s “open hostility” for the cancellation. The summit would have been the […]
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