Police have warned political party cadres to desist from removing their opponents’ campaign posters. Deputy Police Spokesperson Ray Hamoonga says political cadres should allow candidates of all political parties’ equal space to disseminate their campaign messages in the interest of peace. Mr. Hamoonga says all validly nominated candidates of the various political parties must have the same level playing ground ...

Alexander Van der Bellen has won Austria’s presidential election, preventing Norbert Hofer from becoming the EU’s first far-right head of state. Mr Hofer led narrowly after Sunday’s election but postal votes gave Mr Van der Bellen victory by 50.3% to 49.7%. Mr Van der Bellen campaigned on a pro-EU platform backed by the Greens Party. Mr Hofer, of the Freedom ...

Louis van Gaal has been sacked as manager of Manchester United, with former Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho set to be named as his replacement. Van Gaal, 64, leaves after two years of a three-year contract and is currently discussing severance terms. The former Netherlands boss is believed to earn around £6.4m a year. Mourinho’s appointment is expected to be confirmed ...

UPND Vice President for Administration Geoffrey Mwamba has pleaded not guilty to four counts of assault, causing malicious damage to property and conduct likely to cause the breach of peace. Mr Mwamba who spent the entire weekend in Police custody pleaded not guilty when he appeared before Kitwe Resident Magistrate Malota Phiri this morning. Mr Mwamba is facing two counts ...

Pep Guardiola says his 21st title as a coach is not a bad way to sign off at Bayern Munich after his tearful farewell in the German Cup final. Bayern won Guardiola’s final game in charge on Saturday night at Berlin’s Olympic Stadium by beating Borussia Dortmund 4-3 on penalties after neither side could score in 120 minutes. Dortmund missed ...

Jordi Alba and Neymar struck in extra-time as Barcelona completed a league and Cup double by lifting the Copa del Rey for a 28th time after a 2-0 win over Sevilla in a fiery game that saw three red cards on Sunday.Javier Mascherano’s dismissal just before halftime for pulling down Kevin Gameiro put Barca on the back foot and they ...

Libyan coastguards say they intercepted boats carrying 850 migrants trying to reach Europe on Sunday. A spokesman said the migrants from various African countries – including 79 women, 11 of them pregnant – were found in seven inflatable boats near Sabratha, west of the capital Tripoli. More than 30,000 migrants have already crossed from Libya to Italy this year. It ...

At least 17 girls have been killed by a fire which swept through their school dormitory in northern Thailand. The fire broke out on Sunday evening when many of the girls, aged between five and 13, were asleep, said police. One official told AFP that 38 students had been in the dorm at Pithakkiart Witthaya school in Chiang Rai, which ...

Chief Nsamba of the Unga speaking people has challenged politicians to refrain from violence and concentrate on issue based campaigns. Speaking in an interview with QFM News, Chief Nsamba says political must ensure they stick to their party manifesto as they conduct their campaigns because Zambians need development. He says politicians must tell the electorates what they will do if ...

Jesuit Center for Theological Reflection (JCTR) Executive Director Fr. Leonard Chiti has observed that maintaining the maize floor price of K 75 will lead to farmers to abandoning the growing of maize. Father Chiti says this is because growing maize is proving to be non-lucrative business. And Father Chiti says maintaining K75 as the maize price is a mockery to ...