EU medicines agency faces court fight over $660 million rent bill
The European Medicines Agency, which is moving from London to Amsterdam because of Brexit, has been taken to court by its UK landlord, which wants it to keep paying a rent bill estimated at around 500 million pounds ($660 million).
Ethiopian Nile dam manager was shot dead: police
The project manager of a $4 billion Ethiopian dam being built on the River Nile who was found dead in his car on Thursday had been shot, police said on Thursday.
Authorities find fallen plane carrying Paraguayan agriculture minister
A search and rescue team on Thursday morning located a fallen airplane carrying Paraguayan Agriculture Minister Luis Gneiting that went missing on Wednesday night, an official at the country’s aviation authority told local radio.
BRICS bloc signs declaration reaffirming multilateral trade as per WTO rules
Leaders of the BRICS bloc signed a declaration supporting an open and inclusive multilateral trading system as envisaged by the World Trade Organization at a summit on Thursday in South Africa.
‘Left at God’s mercy’: Greeks seek answers as fire toll mounts
Grief became tinged with anger in Greece on Thursday as rescuers searched scorched land and the coastline for survivors, three days after a wildfire destroyed a small town outside Athens and killed at least 83 people.
India’s CBI to investigate Facebook-Cambridge Analytica data theft
The Indian government has asked the Central Bureau of Investigation to probe political consultancy Cambridge Analytica’s misuse of Facebook user data, India’s law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad told parliament on Thursday.
UAE calls Houthi attack on oil shipments totally irresponsible
An attack on Wednesday by Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi rebels on two oil tankers in the Red Sea was totally irresponsible, United Arab Emirates Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Anwar Gargash said.
Zimbabwe’s first post-Mugabe vote – can it be free and fair?
Whether you’re a foreign investor, a Western diplomat or a Zimbabwean voter, the hope was that after Robert Mugabe was ousted last year there would be a ‘free and fair’ election.
Young contender Chamisa promises Zimbabwe break from the past
Lawyer and pastor Nelson Chamisa is using oratory skills honed in the courtroom and pulpit to plot an election victory in Zimbabwe, where he has galvanized his opposition party with folksy speeches and promises of economic revival.
‘The Crocodile’: Zimbabwe’s Mnangagwa emerges from Mugabe’s shadow
It is hard to imagine Robert Mugabe standing in line for fried chicken and chips at a provincial fast-food outlet.
