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Officials are talking about trying to restart factories in Bulawayo. The Finance Ministry, led by Minister Mthuli Ncube, mentioned targeted plans to re-industrialize the city. This came up during a budget meeting with local business leaders at the Rainbow Hotel. Business reps at that meeting...

A local politician and his wife threw a lunch for inmates at a women's prison in Shurugwi. Joseph Mpasi, the MP for Shurugwi North, said the event was meant to lift spirits for Family Week. He told the women their incarceration was just a phase, not a definition of their future. Mpasi promised...

That sketchy businessman from Marondera, Francesco Marconati, is still stuck in a remand prison in Inyathi. He got picked up last week for having an illegal gun. His lawyer, Tatenda Mutero, said bail hearings are dragging on in court. Cops from the CID unit made the arrest. This whole thing...

Cops are hunting for a guy connected to a seriously messed-up family killing. Anymore Zvitsva, who is thirty-two and sometimes called Modho, is wanted for murdering five relatives in Guruve. The police also think he is involved in three other homicides. He is from Bangira Village in that area...

Another government guy is jumping ship for the corporate world. Richard Mahomva, who was the International Communications Services director, is taking a new gig. He will be the head of public relations at NetOne, a state-owned mobile operator. The permanent secretary, Nick Mangwana, confirmed...

Well, look at that. The Zimbabwean government just walked back a whole plan to tax people for taking out their own cash. This was part of Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube's budget for 2026. The idea was a straight-up levy on US dollar withdrawals. They wanted regular folks to pay two percent on...

UK politicians are sounding alarms over deals made with the Trump administration, calling them unstable. The recent pharmaceutical agreement, touted as a milestone, currently lacks any detailed legal text. It exists only as press releases, with the UK emphasizing zero tariffs and the US focusing...

Amazon might drop a massive ten billion dollars into OpenAI. These early talks could push OpenAI's valuation past the five-hundred-billion mark. The deal would tie the AI firm closer to Amazon's cloud division, likely requiring increased use of Amazon's own AI chips over competitors like Nvidia...

Major auction houses are seeing signs of a market rebound. Sotheby's predicts a seventeen percent sales jump this year, reaching around seven billion dollars. Rival Christie's forecasts a more modest six percent rise. This follows a rough period for high-end art, with shifting collector habits...

UK inflation dropped harder than anyone predicted last month, hitting its lowest point in almost a year. The consumer price index rose just three percent annually in November, falling below official forecasts. Core inflation, which ignores food and energy swings, also cooled. Cheaper groceries...

Former Chancellor Rishi Sunak told the official inquiry that the rush to save businesses during the pandemic justified the Bounce Back Loan scheme's known fraud risks. He argued that implementing stricter checks would have delayed critical aid, causing widespread collapses. The program provided...

EU officials just backed off their hardline electric vehicle mandate. The original plan required every new car sold from 2035 to be zero-emission, but the revised proposal only demands ninety percent. The other ten percent can be conventional engines or hybrids, with other offsets supposedly...

A major UK chemical plant got a lifeline. Ineos secured over a hundred and twenty million pounds in government support to keep its Grangemouth facility running, protecting around five hundred jobs. The deal involves a combined investment of about one hundred and fifty million pounds into the...

OpenAI is hiring a former UK finance minister for a top policy job. George Osborne, who was chancellor under David Cameron, will lead the new OpenAI for Countries initiative starting in January. His role is based in London and focuses on getting governments worldwide to adopt their AI...

The Lost Colony expansion for ARK: Survival Ascended is now live on all platforms. This new chapter bridges the story between the older Extinction DLC and the distant future release of ARK 2, which was just delayed until 2028. Players explore a ruined human outpost called Arat Prime, set in a...

A new Mini-ITX motherboard from Maxsun is breaking the usual rules for small form factor builds. Their upcoming MS-PC Farm B860I model appears to be the first consumer ITX board ever to feature four DDR5 memory slots, doubling the standard two slots. This allows for up to two hundred and...

The studio behind the struggling racer Wreckreation has turned to Patreon in a last-ditch effort to survive. Three Fields Entertainment, founded by ex-Burnout devs, needs roughly sixty-five thousand dollars a month to keep its ten-person team together after the game's poor launch and lack of...

The DRAM shortage is getting so bad that Samsung is now investigating its own staff in Taiwan. The company is looking into allegations that local distributors paid bribes, or kickbacks, to employees to secure memory shipments. This comes as every company, from big tech to smaller players, fights...

Five more games just got Nvidia's latest upscaling tech, DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation. The list includes Yakuza Kiwami 2, the newly launched free shooter Splitgate: Arena Reloaded, and ARK: Lost Colony. The early access MMO Ashes of Creation launched with it, and AION2 will add support...

The latest gossip around the mythical Half-Life 3 involves some fresh code, but still no actual game. A recent Dota 2 update added new strings tied to the long-rumored HLX project, which the community believes is the next Half-Life title. This code relates to an updated animation system...