Zimbabwe president shuns foes
Zimbabwe’s new president appointed a Cabinet that sees Patrick China masa return as thesouthern African nation’s finance minister and theopposition excluded as thegovernment returned party loyalists to power along with generals weeks after a military coup.
President Emmerson Mnangagwa appointed Winston Chi tan do as Maj. Gen. Sibusiso Moyo, who announced the coupon national television, will lead foreign affairs and Ziyambi Ziyambi will take on the justice portfolio, Cabinet Chief Secretary Mis heck Sibanda said inane mailed statement.Mr. Chitando is the executive chairman of Mimosa, a unit of Impala Platinum Holdings Ltd., the world’s second-biggest producer of the metal.
Mr. Mnangagwa replaced Robert Mugabe after he resigned Nov. 19 to end 37 years in power.
Economic sanctions urged
WASHINGTON— Cuban-American lawmakers are calling on President Donald Trump to consider punishing two top Nicaraguan officials for alleged human rights violations under a so-called “anti-Russia” law.
Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., is leading a bipartisan group of senator sand representatives pressing Mr. Trump to consider imposing economic sanctions against the president of Nicaragua’s Supreme Electoral Council and a top Nicaragua n oil official connected to the Venezuela government.
The lawmakers are calling on Mr. Trump to investigate the officials under a law originally adopted to punish human rights abuse sin Russia tha thas expanded globally.
Cyanide killed war criminal
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — A former Croatian general who died after swallowing a liquid at a war crimes hearing in the Netherlands had cyanide in his system, Dutch prosecutors said after an autopsy was performed Friday.
Preliminary results from a toxicological test revealed “a concentration of potassium cyanide” in Slobodan Praljak’s blood, the Hague Public Prosecutor’s Office said in a statement.
Praljak, 72, drank from a small bottle that he said contained poison seconds after an appeals judge confirmed his 20-year sentence for crimes during the 1992-95 Bosnian war.
Antidote plan flawed
Kim Jong Nam, the estranged half brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, mayhave been carrying with him a potential antidote to the banned VX nerve agent that caused his death at a Malaysian airport this year.
The news may suggest that the 45-year-old Kim had forewarning that he might be subject to an assassination attempt using chemical weapons.
“The presence of atropine on his person would confirm the fear of chemical fratricide,” said Cindy Vestergaard, an expert on chemical weapons at the Stimson Center in Washington, but Kim appeared to have been “poorly advised on antidote efficacy.”