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Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - Police in Zimbabwe arrested a third journalist in two days over a false story of a murder of an opposition member by supporters of the government.

The police said they would charge Andrew Meldrum, a correspondent for the British newspaper the Guardian, under the country's new tough press and security laws for writing a false story of the decapitation of a supporter of the opposition in front of her children by ruling party militants.

Meldrum's arrest comes a day after police ...

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