Dystopian drama The Handmaid’s Tale has scooped four of the major prizes at this year’s Emmy Awards. The show won best drama series, best director for Reed Morano, best actress for Elisabeth Moss and best supporting actress for Ann Dowd. Producer Bruce Miller thanked author Margaret Atwood, “who created this world for all of us”. The show’s win for best ...

Police in the US state of Georgia have shot and killed an LGBT student activist, leading to an independent investigation. Police encountered Scout Schultz at a campus in Atlanta after a call about “a person with a knife and a gun” late on Saturday, officials say. Footage has emerged apparently showing Schultz, 21, refusing to obey multiple police commands to ...

Maria is expected to become a dangerous major hurricane as it nears the Leeward Islands in the Caribbean. The category one hurricane will rapidly strengthen over the next 48 hours and will hit the islands late on Monday, the US National Hurricane Center says. It is moving roughly along the same path as Irma, the hurricane that devastated the region ...

Siavonga District Lovemore Kanyama has confirmed that 13 cows have so far been killed and eaten by marauding lions in Siavonga district, in southern province. Mr. Kanyama has told QTV news in a telephone interview that lions recently killed 2 cows in syanjoolo area of chief sinadambwe s chiefdom of siavonga district. Mr. Kanyama is worried that lions have continued ...

The Zambia Congress of Trade Union (ZCTU) says negotiations with government on improved conditions of service for teachers have reached an advanced stage. ZCTU Secretary General Cosmas Mukuka says the union has been in talks with government to ensure that teachers with higher levels of qualifications are matched with their qualifications in terms of remunerations. Mr. Mukuka tells q-news that ...

Opposition Movement for National Transformation Leader Daniel Shimunza has accused the patriotic front regime of adopting double standards in its treatment of the minister who have failed to pay back the money following the courts rule. Mr. Shimunza says the fact that they have failed to pay back the money is a clear indication that they are playing double standards ...

A Lusaka based economist noel Nkhoma has advised government to ensure that the 2018 national budget focuses more on poverty reduction strategies. Dr. Nkhoma tells q-news that following president Lungu’s speech when he opened parliament stating that poverty levels in the country have remained high, government should place its emphasis on programs aimed at alleviating poverty. He says government should ensure that ...

Patriotic Front Bwana Mukubwa Member of Parliament Dr. Jonas Chanda says government has managed to overhaul the country’s economic fundamentals in President Edgar Lungu’s one year in power. Speaking during the PF weakly interactive forum, dr. Chanda has highlighted major economic activities which the party found limping but given a face lift in its one year in power. He says ...

Health minister Dr. Chitalu chilufya has dissolved the board of the National HIV/AIDS/STI/TB Council with immediate effect. The action is provided for under section 6 of the national HIV/AIDS/STI/TB council act number 10 of 2002. Dr. Chilufya says the reason the minister dissolved the national HIV/AIDS/STI/TB council is to reposition it so as to improve its efficacy in providing coherent multisectoral coordination ...

Government has financed 10 million kwacha for the partial rehabilitation and replacement of aging infrastructure, fixtures, and fittings at parliament motel in Lusaka. This came to light when the Minister of Finance Felix Mutati briefed the speaker of the national assembly Dr. Patrick Matibini on the measures taken by the treasury to ensure that members of parliament who do not ...