Zimbabwe poll ‘seriously compromised’: ZESN monitors
HARARE (Reuters) – Zimbabwe’s leading domestic election monitoring agency cried foul on Thursday over this week’s poll, saying the credibility of the vote was “seriously compromised” by irregularities on polling day.
Rajoy says court will find no crime by him or his party
MADRID (Reuters) – Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy told lawmakers on Thursday that the justice system would find that neither he nor his political party have committed any crime in an ongoing corruption scandal.
Dissident Kazakh oligarch Ablyazov held in France -sources
LONDON/CANNES, France (Reuters) – Mukhtar Ablyazov, a Kazakh businessman accused of embezzling $6 billion from his former bank, BTA, has been arrested on the French Riviera, two sources said on Wednesday.
Tsvangirai’s MDC says ‘monumental fraud’ in Zimbabwe vote
HARARE (Reuters) – Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC party on Thursday said Zimbabwe’s elections had been a “monumental fraud” after a source in President Robert Mugabe’s ZANU-PF earlier claimed a resounding victory.
Japanese minister Aso retracts Nazi comment amid criticism
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso retracted on Thursday a comment he had made that referred to Adolf Hitler’s rise to power and which was interpreted as praising the Nazi regime.
Mugabe beats Tsvangirai in Zimbabwe election: ZANU-PF source
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – A senior source in Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe’s party claimed a resounding victory in Wednesday’s parliamentary and presidential election against Prime Minster Morgan Tsvangirai’s Movement for Democratic Change (MDC).
As Egypt turns up heat, Brothers struggle for strategy
CAIRO (Reuters) – Behind sandbags at the Muslim Brotherhood’s protest camp in Cairo, an activist urges supporters to embrace martyrdom.
U.N. says chemical weapons inspectors to visit three Syrian sites
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – U.N. inspectors will travel to Syria “as soon as possible” to investigate claims of chemical weapons use during the country’s civil war after President Bashar al-Assad’s government granted access to three sites, the United Na…
Egypt’s rulers want to break up Brotherhood vigils
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt faced the prospect of fresh bloodshed on Thursday after the country’s army-backed rulers signaled they would move soon to disperse thousands of supporters of deposed Islamist President Mohamed Mursi.
As Zimbabwe counts ballots, police warn against leaked election results
HARARE (Reuters) – Zimbabwe police vowed to crack down on any attempts to leak early results from Tuesday’s vote, complicating plans by some civic groups to pre-empt official announcements by the country’s election commission.
