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The Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition (CiZC) has raised alarm over what it described as ‘grave human rights violations’ in mining communities across the country. The concerns were raised during a virtual meeting held on Wednesday. The dialogue, titled “Exploring Strategies to Defend Fundamental Rights in Mining Communities: What Are the Available Avenues?” which brought together activists, civil society groups and community representatives to address reports of widespread abuses linked to mining operations. Follow us on WhatsApp | LinkedIn for the latest headlines Concerns raised included forced displacements, severe environmental degradation and widespread water and air pollution. Participants also reported cases…

NewsFeedThe United Nations General Assembly has endorsed a resolution reviving a two-state solution between Israel and Palestine. It also calls for Hamas to end its rule in Gaza. Israel and the United States were among the 10 members who voted against it.Published On 12 Sep 202512 Sep 2025Click here to share on social mediashare2Share

Investors took a cautious approach to transit software startup Via’s IPO on Friday, with shares opening below the company’s IPO price before recovering at the end of the day slightly higher.  The company, which initially filed confidentially for IPO in July, priced its IPO at $46 per share, raising $492.9 million. Those shares slipped to $44 when the stock began trading Friday afternoon, and then inched back into the green to finish at just over $49. The modest gain values Via at roughly $3.9 billion at the close of its first trading day. Via raised about $328 million in its…

Published On 13 Sep 202513 Sep 2025Click here to share on social mediashare2ShareHere is how things stand on Saturday, September 13:Fighting An early morning Russian attack on Friday killed three people in northern Ukraine’s Sumy region, a regional official reported. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Moscow’s attempts to advance in the Sumy area had failed with heavy losses, and Russian operations in the region were being “completely foiled by our forces”. A Ukrainian drone attack on Russia’s northwestern port of Primorsk has, for the first time, forced the suspension of loading at the key western oil terminal, according to two…

Both an obvious product of ’90s nostalgia and the definitive cure for it, Bobby Farrelly‘s terminally innocuous “Driver’s Ed” can be described as a youth comedy, but whose youth? Though technically it is set in the current day, because smartphones exist and someone mentions Ritalin, the sensibilities of both director and screenplay (by Thomas Moffett) are so trapped in the past that the whole movie feels like a defrosted caveman sporting a pair of earbuds — which is essentially the plot of 1992’s “Encino Man,” apropos of nothing much except that after “Driver’s Ed,” all your comparisons will for a time…

Most of Israel's internal investigations of suspected war crimes close with no accountability.

World Athletics is within “touching distance” of carrying out gene testing on all female athletes before the start of the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo.Rules requiring all athletes in the female category of world ranking events to take a one-time gene test came into force at the beginning of September.World Athletics says the sex screening – which detects the presence of a Y chromosome – is to protect the integrity of women’s competition.Speaking on the eve of the championships on Friday, World Athletics president Sebastian Coe said at a media conference: “We were on 95% the other day, we’re inching…

Erika Kirk, the widow of rightwing activist and provocateur Charlie Kirk, said in a statement Friday evening that her late husband’s message and mission will be “stronger, bolder, louder and greater than ever” and that her “cries will echo around the world like a battle cry”.“I loved knowing one of his mottos was ‘never surrender’,” she said of her late husband. “We’ll never surrender.”Charlie Kirk, the co-founder of the hard-right youth organization Turning Point USA, died after being fatally shot while speaking at an event hosted at Utah Valley University (UVU) on Wednesday afternoon. The event was the first in…

Robinson was arrested on charges of aggravated murder and felony discharge of a firearm causing serious bodily harm.

Nardine Saad andMax MatzaTurning Point USACharlie Kirk’s widow, Erika, has given a tearful address in which she thanked first responders for trying to save her husband’s life after he was fatally shot on a Utah university campus.In a livestream, standing beside her husband’s empty chair that he used during podcast tapings, she quoted the Bible and spoke about his love for President Donald Trump, Vice-President JD Vance, the United States, and the couple’s two children.Kirk, a right-wing activist, was shot dead on Wednesday during an open-air speaking event in Orem, Utah. His suspected killer, Tyler Robinson, was arrested on Thursday…