Chinese authorities have demanded “severe punishment” for a man who allegedly stole the thumb of a terracotta warrior statue on display in the US, Chinese state media report. The 2,000-year-old statue, worth $4.5m (£3.2m), is one of 10 on loan to the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia. Last week, Michael Rohana was charged with theft and concealment of a major artwork, ...

The Foundation For Democratic Process (FODEP) has as urged all political parties to submit their financial statements of their accounts to the registrar of societies. This follows after Minister of Home Affairs Stephen Kampyongo gave organizations such as political parties, churches and Civil Society organizations an amnesty to settle outstanding annual returns or Facede-registration. The amnesty, which runs through April ...

Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho has dismissed media speculation of a rift with Paul Pogba as a “big lie” and said that the midfielder was well aware of the need to improve after below-par displays in the last few weeks. The France international, 24, was substituted in the 2-0 Premier League defeat at Tottenham Hotspur and started the next game ...

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, about a woman seeking justice for her daughter’s murder, scooped the top prizes at the Bafta Film Awards. The drama won five trophies including best film, best British film and best actress for Frances McDormand. Gary Oldman won best actor for playing Winston Churchill – one of two awards for World War Two epic Darkest ...

Swastikas have been drawn on the gates of Poland’s embassy in Israel, a day after the country’s PM said Jews were among perpetrators of the Holocaust. Police in Tel Aviv launched an inquiry after profanities and the word “murderer” were also discovered. Polish PM Mateusz Morawiecki’s comments have been strongly condemned by Israel. He has since said through a spokeswoman ...

An Australian MP has drawn criticism for posting a photo online that showed him aiming a gun and asking: “Do you feel lucky, greenie punks?” George Christensen, a government MP, put the photo on Facebook on Saturday. The Greens party said the conservative MP’s post was “disgraceful”, noting it came in the same week that 17 people died in a US ...

Opposition Green Party Leader Peter Sinkamba has bemoaned high levels of corruption in the procurement sector. Mr. Sinkamba has noted that corruption is slowly becoming a fundamental and distinctive characteristic of the government procurement system. He has predicted that corruption will soon become unchangeable because it is slowly becoming the dna of the procurement system. Mr. Sinkamba is worried that ...

Visiting Democratic Republican of Congo President Joseph Kabila’s motorcade has been involved in another accident along leopard’s hill road opposite Saudi Arabia and France Embassies. Zambia Police Service Spokesperson Esther Katongo has confirmed the development to q-news. Involved was Andrew Phiri aged 35 of Twikatane compound in Lusaka who was driving a Toyota Dyna a Mazda motor vehicle belonging to ...

The Zambian High Commission in Pretoria, South Africa is next month scheduled to conduct immigration clinics across the country in a bid to address immigration challenges faced by some Zambians living in that country. Zambia’s high commissioner to South Africa Emmanuel Mwamba says another awareness forum will be held in collaboration with the South African home affairs department following increased ...

The Patriotic Front (PF) has backed the introduction of health insurance bill, saying it will resuscitate Zambians who may not afford to afford health care. Speaking during the PF media interactive forum, PF Bwanamukubwa member of Parliament Jonas Chanda suggests that the bill will enable government generate more revenue to build health infrastructure other than that which comes from the ...