No resignation as Robert Mugabe addresses nation NEWS / ZIMBABWE READ MORE Analyst: Mugabe's political support was a 'facade' Zimbabwe crisis: Tens of thousands demand 'Mugabe must go' Africa Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe SIGN UP Harare residents watch as Mugabe addresses the nation on TV [Philimon Bulawayo/Reuters] Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has resisted mounting pressure to step down, telling the nation that he will preside over a ruling party congress next month. The 93-year-old Zimbabwean leader had been widely expected to announce his resignation as Zimbabwe's head of state and government on Sunday, five days after a surprise military takeover in which he was placed under house arrest. But in his much-anticipated TV address from his State House office, Mugabe acknowledged criticism but said the country needs to "return to normalcy" without making any statement on his position. "Whatever the pros and cons of how they [the army] went about...
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Florida university students to counter neo-Nazi rally NEWS / UNITED STATES READ MORE Neo-Nazi coalition rallies in Tennessee amid pushback READ MORE US anti-fascists: 'We can make racists afraid again' Far Right United States US & Canada Politics Racism SIGN UP Members of the National Socialist Movement demonstrate in Washington, DC, in 2008 [Haraz N Ghanbari/AP Photo] Students and activists are planning to counterprotest a neo-Nazi rally at the University of North Florida (UNF) on Monday, while the university plans to deploy regular and undercover police officers to prevent clashes. The neo-Nazi rally was called to support Ken Parker, a political science student who was suspended this month after publishing a threatening image on a Black Lives Matter-linked student group's Facebook page. "Let SDS [Students for a Democratic Society] and the other clowns come at me, I will shut them down," he wrote in the post that was accompanied by a photo in which Parker is ...
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Concerns grow as Argentina intensifies submarine search NEWS / ARGENTINA Latin America Argentina SIGN UP The San Juan which last made contact on Wednesday has 44 crew members on board [File: Armada Argentina/Handout via Reuters] A NASA research plane has joined the search for a missing Argentine submarine, as concern is growing over the fate of its 44 crew members. No contact has been made with the vessel, the ARA San Juan, since Wednesday, prompting authorities to launch a major air and sea search operation. "We will do what is necessary to find the submarine as soon as possible," President Mauricio Macri said on his Twitter account on Saturday. The TR-1700 class diesel-electric vessel had been returning from a routine mission to Ushuaia, near the southernmost tip of South America, to its base at Mar del Plata, around 400km south of the capital, Buenos Aires. Argentina accepted an offer from the United States for a NASA P-3 explorer aircraft, which had been stationed in Ush...
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Gerry Adams to step down as Sinn Fein leader next year NEWS / SINN FEIN WATCH 25:30 How will London deal with the Northern Ireland crisis? READ MORE Sinn Fein surges in tight Northern Ireland elections Europe Sinn Fein Ireland IRA SIGN UP Adams announced his plans to retire in a speech at a Sinn Fein conference in Dublin [Clodagh Kilcoyne/Reuters] Gerry Adams, the veteran leader of the Irish Republican party, Sinn Fein, has announced plans to step down from his role after almost 35 years. His replacement will be elected by party members in the coming months, Adams told the party's annual conference in Dublin on Saturday. "Leadership means knowing when it is time for change and that time is now," Adams said in his speech. The Belfast-born 69-year-old leader has long been a divisive figure in Ireland and the United Kingdom. Advertisement He was a leading spokesman for Sinn Fein's paramilitary wing, the Irish Republican Army (IRA), during its decades-long bombing campaig...