A judge at Zimbabwe's High Court has struck down a ban on the opposition's main campaign rally ahead of next week's presidential run-off election.
A spokesman for the Movement for Democratic Change said the ruling overturned a police order banning the event, planned for Sunday in the capital, Harare. Meanwhile, President Robert Mugabe has accused the MDC of lying about Australia withdraws troops from Iraq ...
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Two dead in Miami crane collapse ... alleged political violence. He told the state-run newspaper The Herald that the MDC was trying to justify claims that the vote would not be free and fair. United Nations officials, though, have said that supporters of Mugabe's ZANU-PF party have been behind most of the attacks. Mugabe is being challenged in next Friday's run-off by MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai. Tsvangirai won the March 29 first round of the presidential election, but not by an outright majority.
(Deutsche Welle)
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