UK Navy accused of racism over Mugabe nickname

September 26th, 2009 LONDON - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has set up a secret farming empire out of the land seized from more than 4,000 white commercial farmers. The disclosure about the 10,000-acre holding worth 2 million pounds is the first evidence of how Mughabe personally benefited from the land seizures drive, The Telegraph reports.

September 24th, 2009 LONDON - Britain's largest police force is in danger of losing out on making progress in fighting racism since the murder of Stephen Lawrence, a new report says. ccording to the Macpherson Report that looked into the killing of the black teenager, a review of race and faith issues within the force shows that there is to identify a new vision, which can provide a comparable level of inspiration.

September 2nd, 2009 LONDON - A Congolese accountant is taking Tintin to court on charges of racism. Bienvenu Mbutu Mondondo, 41, has accused judges in the cartoon hero's native Belgium of trying to bury his case to protect a "national symbol".

July 2nd, 2009 New guidelines approved to stop soccer racismLONDON — European soccer authorities have approved new guidelines for referees to act against racism in stadiums. The governing body also says games could be called off because of offensive chants.

June 23rd, 2009 Zimbabwe's mines minister barred from BritainHARARE, Zimbabwe — Zimbabwe's mines minister, who is on a list of officials close to President Robert Mugabe barred from the West, has been kept from attending an investment conference in London, state radio and British officials said Tuesday. British officials in Harare said Obert Mpofu was denied a visa to travel to the African mining meeting where he was scheduled to make a speech Tuesday.

June 21st, 2009 Zimbabwe PM defends sharing power with MugabeLONDON — Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai on Sunday defended his decision to enter a power-sharing government with President Robert Mugabe, a day after being heckled offstage by protesters in London. The two bitter rivals joined in a coalition government in February.

June 20th, 2009 Zimbabwe PM urges diaspora to come homeLONDON — Angry protesters shouted Zimbabwe's Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai off stage Saturday when he appealed to exiles to return to the battered African nation. Tsvangirai, who reluctantly joined President Robert Mugabe in a power-sharing deal in February, made the appeal to exiles in a London church Saturday but was forced off stage briefly by protesters who want Mugabe to step down after 28 years in power.

June 12th, 2009 LONDON - A British Airways pilot has alleged that his colleagues victimized him after he exposed the "canteen culture of racism" against Asians at the airline. Scotish pilot Douglas Maughan, 54, told an employment tribunal that he was subjected to racist abuse by colleagues, including being told that "jocks" should "f*** off to the welfare state paid for by the English".

May 3rd, 2009 LONDON - The British Defence Ministry is embroiled in a discrimination row after backing a range of "HM Armed Forces" model soldiers that ignores women and whose promotional campaign snubs black and Asian troops. The figures, created with the help of senior officials from the army, navy and RAF, carry the MoD logo and are designed to represent the modern face of Britain's military.owever, the 25cm all-male models - including commandos, infantry, pilots, divers and parachutists - were criticised last night for insulting the 17,900 women in the armed forces.

April 5th, 2009 LONDON - North Korea's supreme leader Kim Jong-II has expressed his agitation on being overthrown in an annual poll that names the world's worst dictators. According to the poll, Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe is now the most evil tyrant in the world.

January 26th, 2009 PRETORIA/BRUSSELS - Zimbabwe's opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) Tuesday blasted as 'malicious' assurances given by southern African leaders at the end of a 12-hour summit that the party had agreed to join President Robert Mugabe in a power-sharing government. 'It's completely malicious,' a spokesman for MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai told DPA after South African President Kgalema Motlanthe told reporters that Zimbabwe's four-month-long political impasse had been resolved.

January 16th, 2009 LONDON - The Pakistan Army captain whom Prince Harry called a 'Paki' when they were both soldier-cadets has said the British royal is not racist. In an interview with The Sun newspaper published Saturday, Ahmed Raza Khan said Prince Harry had personally phoned him to apologise but that he had 'no hard feelings'.

January 13th, 2009 LONDON - Authorities have launched an investigation after revelations that two immigration staff were members of the extremist British National Party (BNP), the UK Border Agency confirmed Wednesday. The links were revealed when a list of BNP members was put up anonymously on the Internet in November last year, leading one of the staff members to resign and the other to be suspended, a spokesman for the government agency said.

January 13th, 2009 LONDON - A wealthy Indian property developer and polo player said he didn’t mind Prince Charles and his family calling him ‘Sooty’ in the second race row in a week involving members of the British royalty. 'I have to say that you know you have arrived when you acquire a nickname.

January 13th, 2009 LONDON - Prince Harry, flayed for using a racist word to describe a fellow Pakistani officer, has received unexpected support from an Indian-origin friend who says the royals call him 'Sooty' but they are not racist. The man called 'Sooty' by Prince Charles and his two sons is Kuldip Dhillon, a wealthy property developer who plays polo with the royals at the Cirencester Polo Club near the Prince of Wales's Highgrove estate.