EU leaders holding late-night talks in Brussels have agreed to relocate tens of thousands of migrants who have arrived in Italy and Greece. Summit chairman Donald Tusk said 40,000 would be relocated to other EU states over the next two years. However, there will be no mandatory quotas for each country. The Greek debt crisis was also on the summit’s ...

Two hundred and twelve thousand (212, 000) people have been captured so far in the ongoing mobile issuance of National Registration Cards in Muchinga, Northern and Central Provinces. Home Affairs Minister Davies Mwila says this represents 94 percent of the work completed in the three provinces. Mr. Mwila states that about 88, 000 people have obtained NRCs in Central Province, ...

Transparency International Zambia (TIZ) has maintained that the 72 hours ultimatum given to Youth and Sport Permanent Secretary Agness Musunga still stands despite her explanation that the matter is before the Auditor General’s office. On Tuesday, TIZ gave the Ministry of Youth and Sport Permanent Secretary a 72 hours notice to take appropriate action on well documented evidence of public ...

Hosts Chile moved into the Copa America semi-finals as Mauricio Isla’s late winner knocked nine-man holders Uruguay out of the tournament. Chile dominated a bruising contest, Eduardo Vargas and Arturo Vidal both going close before Edinson Cavani was sent off for a second yellow card. Uruguay held out until the 82nd minute when Isla fired home from 16 yards. In ...

Saved by the Bell actor Dustin Diamond has been sentenced to four months in jail for a bar fight during which a man was stabbed. Diamond – who played Screech in the TV show – was convicted earlier this month of two charges of carrying a concealed weapon and disorderly conduct. The 38-year-old actor had said he was defending his ...

Greece and its international creditors remain in deadlock over its debt crisis despite a series of top-level meetings. The country faces default if it fails to make a €1.6bn (£1.1bn) IMF debt repayment by Tuesday. A meeting of European finance ministers has ended without progress. In a separate meeting, Greece’s prime minster and its lenders also failed to find an ...

National Pensions Scheme Authority (NAPSA) has urged members of the public to take keen interest in knowing their contributions being remitted to NAPSA. Speaking during the employers/employee seminar in Lusaka today, NAPSA Director General Charles Mpundu says as a pension scheme, NAPSA operates on principles of social insurance which means that the rights to benefits are earned based on contributions ...

Zambia Sugar PLC’s annual production is projected to increase from its current 45,000 metric tonnes to 92, 000 metric tonnes following an investment boots of US$60 million in its operations. This has been made possible by the signing of a Product Alignment and Refinery project financing agreement the company has entered into with Barclays Bank and Stanbic Bank by way ...

The annual rate of inflation for June 2015 has increased to 7.1% from 6.9% recorded in May, 2015. Central Statistical Office (CSO) Director John Kalumbi says of the total 7.1% annual rate of inflation, food and non alcoholic beverages accounted for 3.7%, while non food products accounted for 3.4%. Mr Kalumbi says the increase is attributed to increases in non ...

The Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) has called on the Office of the Auditor General to urgently probe the expenditures made by Government to Reedbuck Lodge to carter for the lodging of the former first family. And YALI has also called for the probing of operational expenditures at the Road Development Agency (RDA) on fuels for staff pool vehicles. YALI ...