HARARE – This week, in the Guthrie Munyuki Interview, we bring you British Ambassador to Zimbabwe Deborah Bronnert, whose country is fresh from hosting the Friends of Zimbabwe (FoZ) meeting in London. Below are the excerpts. Q. Recently Britain hosted the Friends of Zimbabwe (FoZ) meeting in London which was attended by three representatives of…
LONDON – Theresa May has attacked one of her predecessors – accusing Tony Blair of “undermining” the Brexit talks by calling for another referendum. She called his comments an “insult to the office he once held” and said MPs could not “abdicate responsibility” to deliver Brexit by holding a new poll. In London last week,…
WASHINGTON – Former United States president George HW Bush has died at the age of 94, a family spokesperson has announced. Bush Senior died on Friday, about eight months after the death of his wife, Barbara Bush. “Jeb, Neil, Marvin, Doro and I are saddened to announce that after 94 remarkable years, our dear Dad…
BEIJING – Hopes this week’s meeting between US President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping at the G20 in Argentina will achieve a trade breakthrough are fading with analysts and business leaders expressing disappointment over intensifying tensions in the lead up to the summit. The high-stakes encounter between the two leaders in Buenos…
BBC – Theresa May has said the UK will not get a “better deal” from the EU if MPs reject the agreement she has struck. She told a BBC phone-in that there would be just “more division and uncertainty” if Parliament voted against the agreement next month. But she declined to say whether the UK…
CNN – Former first lady Michelle Obama said that her oft-admired friendship with former President George W. Bush serves as a reminder of how relationships should be during a time when America only sees all the “nasty parts” of political discourse. In an interview released Wednesday on NBC, Obama told Bush’s daughter, Jenna Bush Hager, who…
VATICAN CITY – One rarely leaves his monastery high on a hill in Vatican City. The other speaks freely — too freely, critics say — but has vowed silence on this matter, for now. Two men, both clad in white, both called Holy Father, and now, both facing questions about a crucial facet of the…
US President Donald Trump has said he will impose 10 percent US tariffs on about $200bn worth of Chinese imports, but he spared some consumer products. The new tariffs will take effect from September 24, Trump said in a statement on Monday. It will increase to 25 percent on January 1 unless the two countries…
NEW DELHI – India’s Supreme Court has struck down a colonial-era law criminalizing consensual gay sex, overturning more than 150 years of anti-LGBT legislation. The landmark decision Thursday by five Supreme Court judges to repeal the law and legalize gay sex between consenting adults comes as a major victory for India’s LGBT activists and supporters…
UNITED STATES – Veteran senator dies at 81 from brain cancer after an eventful life that saw him go from POW to presidential candidate. The US has no royalty but the late US Senator John McCain was born into the closest thing the country has to an aristocracy. He began life in 1936 at a…
