Zimbabwe’s electoral commission has confirmed the results in 10 disputed parliamentary votes, making it unlikely that President Robert Mugabe’s party can wrest control from the opposition.

Riot police and intelligence officers today ransacked Zimbabwe’s opposition party headquarters and the offices of independent election monitors.

Police raided the offices of Zimbabwe’s main opposition party, a senior police official said today.

Zimbabwe's opposition political party called a nationwide strike today after the country's High Court rejected an appeal for the immediate release of delayed presidential election results.

Zimbabwe’s main opposition leader is insisting that he has won presidential elections outright and is not negotiating to ease out Robert Mugabe, who has led Zimbabwe from liberation to ruin.

Zimbabwean police and troops fanned out through impoverished townships today on the first day of a two-day national strike called to protest against deepening economic hardships blamed on the government.

Zimbabweans braced for a national protest strike today in the wake of a police crackdown on government opponents.

Zimbabwe’s main opposition party today denied it was stockpiling weapons or waging a terror campaign.

Zimbabwe’s ruling party leaders are to consider abandoning widely-criticised proposals to delay presidential elections until 2010, it is reported.

Zimbabwe’s government faced strong international condemnation after police crushed a prayer demonstration and allegedly tortured the country’s most prominent opposition leader and killed a pro-democracy activist.

Top opposition leaders were assaulted and tortured by police who broke up a planned “Save Zimbabwe” prayer meeting in the capital, colleagues of the activists said today.

The leader of the main opposition party was detained by police who shot dead a protester as they broke up a “Save Zimbabwe” prayer meeting in the capital today.

POLICE used tear gas and water cannons to break up a key rally of the main opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) in the Zimbabwean capital Harare yestertoday, arresting dozens of people, it has been reported.

Hundreds of police were deployed in the Zimbabwean capital Harare today and army units were reportedly on standby before a two-day strike called by critics of President Robert Mugabe to protest his clampdown on street traders and slum dwellers.

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s ruling Zanu-PF party has intensified acts of post-election violence and intimidation against opposition supporters, according to the opposition Movement for Democratic Change.

Zimbabwean police have arrested three men wanted in connection with the murder of two Britons whose bodies were found earlier this month in a well.

Two Britons were missing for over a month in Zimbabwe before their bodies were found in a well in an exclusive Harare suburb.

Zimbabwe’s main opposition party accused police today of harassing its leader to hinder his political activities before crucial elections early next year.

Police and education authorities shut down 45 private schools across Zimbabwe today in a long-running dispute over fees.

The president and general-secretary of Zimbabwe’s largest trade union were arrested along with 51 supporters today as they marched through the capital Harare in protest at rising prices and high taxes.

POLICE arrested Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai yesterday and charged him with treason as anti-government protests faltered in the face of a massive show of force by President Robert Mugabe.

Opposition officials in Zimbabwe vowed to continue a week of anti-government strikes and protests today despite a tough crackdown by President Robert Mugabe’s security services.

Zimbabwe’s police chief has been appointed honorary vice-president of international crime-fighting body Interpol.

Zimbabwean authorities detained five foreign Lutheran church workers and a local journalist in a rural hotel today on suspicion that they violated the nation’s stringent security laws, the workers said.

One person has been killed in Zimbabwe in a firebomb attack on a ruling party office in the capital Harare, authorities said today.

A NEW deadline for Zimbabwe's white farmers to quit their properties and make way for landless blacks expired yesterday with no news of fresh arrests.

Zimbabwe’s government stepped up its efforts to seize white-owned land today as it rounded up more farmers defying eviction notices.

At least 15 people have been killed in a cave-in at an illegal gold mine in Zimbabwe, local media reported today.

Zimbabwe's opposition leader has been summoned to Harare's police headquarters for questioning over remarks he allegedly made calling for the overthrow of Robert Mugabe.

Zimbabwe’s opposition leader has been charged with treason less than two weeks before the presidential elections that threaten to end nearly 22 years of Robert Mugabe’s rule.

Paramilitary riot police in the Zimbabwean capital, Harare, fought running battles today with hundreds of university students protesting against the killing of one of their colleagues by soldiers.

Zimbabwe’s main opposition party claimed today their leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, was the target of a state-sponsored assassination attempt while campaigning north of Harare.

A series of blasts rocked the printing works of Zimbabwe’s main independent newspaper today, wrecking its printing press and possibly putting the fierce government critic out of action for weeks.