Simon Rudland, a Zimbabwean businessman, is demanding a public apology from Al Jazeera Investigations after being named as part of the “gold mafia” and the biggest funder of smuggling activities in Zimbabwe in a recently premiered documentary. In the first episode of
Tafadzwa “Levels” Kadzimwe, a producer at Chillspot Records based in Mbare, has been ordered to appear in court on March 10, 2023, in connection with allegations that he leaked intimate photos and a sex tape of himself and his former girlfriend, singer Ashleigh “Shashl” Moyo, without her consent. Levels is facing charges of “transmitting nudes
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“THE Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) is investigating a case of sexual abuse on pupils at Murwira primary school by their headmaster, after images of him squeezing their private parts leaked online. The headmaster, only identified as Mr. Mugonesi, has been trending online where his images are been shared on various platforms. Midlands police spokesperson Inspector
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A Kenyan preacher based in the UK Climate Wiseman has been charged in court for selling what he called a Covid-19 remedy. Bishop Climate Irungu Wiseman sold a bottle of a mixture of oils at £91 ($125). Wiseman, the head of the Kingdom Church in Camberwell, south London, is said to have marketed the mixture
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At least Six people have been killed and two injured in a shooting in the southern German town of Rot am See, police revealed on Friday. A 26-year-old man was arrested after calling police from the murder scene and claiming that he had shot several people. It later emerged that the suspect’s 65-year-old father and
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At least one person has reportedly been shot dead after an unidentified gunman opened fire on the office of the Federal Security Service, the FSB, Russia’s main intelligence agency, in the heart of Moscow. The agency, called the Federal Security Service (FSB) and formerly known as the KGB, has reportedly said the gunman has been
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Sydney – A gunman has been shot dead after an hour-long shooting spree in western Sydney on Wednesday night, in which he opened fire on a residential home and two police stations. New South Wales (NSW) Police declared the shooting at a police station “a critical incident,” which left multiple officers with injuries, including one
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A Honolulu homeless man fearing he would be arrested, reluctantly obeyed a police officer’s orders to lick a urinal, according to a court document made public Wednesday after a former officer pleaded guilty to failing to report the incident. And it wasn’t the first time. Officer John Rabago had previously threatened another man he was
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Israeli billionaire Beny Steinmetz and two colleagues are to go on trial in Switzerland for allegedly paying $10m (£8.2m) in bribes in Guinea to win mining licences between 2005 and 2010 A statement from Geneva prosecutor Claudio Mascotto said the payments were promised in 2005, three years before President Lansana Conte died They are accused
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An American woman who miscarried after being shot five times has been charged by Alabama authorities in the death of her foetus, a move abortion rights groups condemned on Thursday. The arrest of Marshae Jones came amid heightened tensions around abortion after more than a dozen states in the southern and midwestern United States, including
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CHRISTCHURCH – The man accused of shooting dead 51 Muslim worshippers in the Christchurch mosque attacks in March smiled Friday as his lawyers entered not guilty pleas to multiple murder and terrorism charges. Brenton Tarrant’s barrister told Christchurch High Court his client was pleading not guilty to all charges, prompting anger from survivors and relatives of those killed in the March
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