Real Madrid’s season has lurched from one disappointment to another over the last few months and the mood at the club was further soured by a 2-2 La Liga draw at Levante on Saturday, a result that left embattled coach Zinedine Zidane “disgusted”. Zidane’s side twice threw away the lead with Giampaolo Pazzini’s 89th minute equaliser earning Levante a point ...
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Uma Thurman breaks silence on Weinstein attack
An Amtrak train carrying 147 people has collided with a goods train in the US state of South Carolina, killing at least two people, officials say. About 70 people were injured. Amtrak says the passenger train’s lead engine and several carriages derailed in the crash near the state capital Columbia. The train was operating between New York and Miami. Just ...
Read More »Amtrak crash: Two killed after trains collide in South Carolina
An Amtrak train carrying 147 people has collided with a goods train in the US state of South Carolina, killing at least two people, officials say. About 70 people were injured. Amtrak says the passenger train’s lead engine and several carriages derailed in the crash near the state capital Columbia. The train was operating between New York and Miami. Just ...
Read More »China accuses US of ‘Cold War mentality’ over nuclear policy
China has urged the US to drop its “Cold War mentality” after Washington said it planned to diversify its nuclear armoury with smaller bombs. “The country that owns the world’s largest nuclear arsenal, should take the initiative to follow the trend instead of going against it,” China’s defence ministry said on Sunday. The US military believes its nukes are seen ...
Read More »Chiboboka wants RDA on site
Patriotic front Kabwata ward six councilor Longa Chiboboka is calling on the Road Development Agency (RDA) to quickly move on site and commence the construction of the 11 kilometers of roads in his ward. Mr. Chiboboka has told q-news that residents in his ward are anxiously waiting for the commencement of the construction process of the 11 kilometers of roads following ...
Read More »Remove Defence forces from the streets, Govt urged
Governance activist Leslie Chikuse has appealed to president Lungu to withdraw the Defence forces from the streets so that they can perform their core duties from their base as officers under the ministry of Defence. Mr. Chikuse says the continued presence of the Defence forces in the streets is creating an impression that they have no other duties other than cleaning and vacating ...
Read More »Govt will not close ‘Heroes Stadium’
Health minister Dr. Chitalu Chilufya says hero’s stadium will not be closed down as epi- center despite the reduction in the number of cholera cases. Dr. Chilufya says this is because the facility still has cholera patients under treatment thus it will continue being used until further notice. Meanwhile the minister has disclosed that angola’s health minister is in the ...
Read More »Indian Company to set manufacturer plant in Zambia
One of the leading Indian transformer manufacturers has offered to set base in Zambia to service the country and the region. PME Power Solutions India Limited Chairman ANIL AGGARWAL says the planned investment in Zambia will gobble One Hundred Million US Dollars. Mr. AGGARWAL who is also Indian Transformer Manufacturers Association President says the manufacturing plant in Zambia would create ...
Read More »Africa’s population for the aged projected to reach 157 million by 2050
Africa’s Population at the age of 60 years of 46 million in 2015 is expected to reach 157 million by the year 2050. Zambia’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Lazarous Kapambwe says Africa’s population for the aged has been projected to triple in the next thirty years. Mr. Kapambwe says it has been projected that the statistical percentage ...
Read More »Kachenga seek probe of CEEC
Youth Aid Chairperson Chungu Kachenga has proposed that Citizens Economic Empowerment Commission (CEEC) should be probed because it is a loophole for corruption and is not free from political interference in its operations. Mr. Kachenga says CEEC was created to provide financial opportunity for the Zambians with good business propositions that will generate revenue and create employment. He says it ...
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