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A28 WORLD NEWS
Tuesday 2 June 2020

Zimbabwe summons U.S. envoy over White House adviser's comment

By FARAI MUTSAKA my body were not fully my
Associated Press own. I have also always
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) known that America, con-
— Zimbabwe has sum- ceived in liberty, has always
moned the U.S. ambassa- aspired to be better — a
dor in Harare to a meeting shining city on a hill — and
over comments by a White that is why I have dedicat-
House official suggest- ed my life to her service."
ing Zimbabwe is among He said that in the U.S. a
"foreign adversaries" that police officer has already
could face retaliation for been charged with murder
trying to foment unrest in for Floyd's death, while in
the U.S. over the death of Zimbabwe there are gov-
George Floyd, a black man ernment critics who have
who pleaded for air as a disappeared. He named
police officer pressed a the well-known cases of
knee into his neck. three Zimbabwean men
The U.S. ambassador to who disappeared with no
Zimbabwe, Brian Nichols, arrests made.
has met with Zimbabwe's "Americans will continue to
foreign minister over com- speak out for justice wheth-
ments Sunday by U.S. na- er at home or abroad," said
tional security adviser Rob- Nichols. "We can meet the
ert O'Brien. ideals of our founding, we
In an interview on ABC's In this file photo dated Wednesday, Aug, 15, 2018, United States Ambassador to Zimbabwe Brian can change this world for
"This Week," O'Brien sug- Nichols, left, during a courtesy call with Zimbabwean President elect Emmerson Mnangagwa at the better."
gested, without citing any his official State House in Harare. After meeting the U.S am-
evidence, that Zimbabwe Associated Press bassador, Zimbabwe's for-
is one of several "foreign pressed his knee into Floyd's ment on the current crisis in "I again urged Zimbabwe's eign affairs minister Sibusiso
adversaries" — including neck even as he cried he the U.S., but his spokesman government to end state- Moyo said his government
China and Russia — he sug- couldn't breathe. One offi- George Charambsa and sponsored violence against noted "with astonishment
gested were taking advan- cer has been charged with other government support- peaceful protesters, civil and concern," the U.S. na-
tage of the protests in the murder. ers have criticized the U.S. society, labor leaders and tional security adviser's
U.S. to "sow discord and to The Trump administration on their personal social me- member of the opposition statement describing Zim-
try and damage our de- has portrayed the vio- dia accounts. in Zimbabwe and to hold babwe as an adversary.
mocracy." lence as the work of out- Following his meeting with accountable those re- Moyo described the alle-
"So there will be a response side groups and extremists. Zimbabwe's foreign minis- sponsible for human rights gation as "false" and "with-
and it will be proportional, Officials are investigating ter, the U.S ambassador is- abuses," wrote Nichols in a out any factual founda-
but this is not something whether foreign adversar- sued a statement Monday letter tweeted by the U.S. tion whatsoever and that
that -- that our adversaries ies are behind a burgeon- saying he used the occa- embassy. they are deeply damaging
are going to get away with ing disinformation cam- sion to ask Zimbabwe to In his unusually personal let- to a relationship already
for free," O'Brien said. paign on social media. end state-sponsored vio- ter, Nichols said that "as an complicated by years of
Floyd was killed a week ago Zimbabwean President Em- lence against activists, cit- African-American I have prescriptive megaphone
in Minneapolis, Minnesota, merson Mnangagwa has ing recent abductions of known as long as I can re- diplomacy and punitive
as a white police officer not made any official com- opposition officials. member that my rights and economic sanctions."q

Israeli scientists dig up cannabis traces in ancient temple

covery from an 8th-century tars from the shrine's inner tor of Iron Age archaeol-
B.C. shrine at Tel Arad offers sanctum — now located at ogy at the Israel Museum
the first proof for "the use of the Israel Museum in Jeru- in Jerusalem and lead au-
mind-altering substances salem — were inconclusive. thor of the study, said the
as part of cultic rituals in Chemical analysis of the discovery was "revolution-
Judah," including the first samples conducted at Isra- ary," as it was the earliest
Jewish Temple that stood el's Hebrew University and evidence of cannabis use
in Jerusalem at the same Technion Institute found in the ancient Near East
time. Archaeological ex- that one altar contained and the "first time we see
cavations at Tel Arad, lo- the psychoactive com- psychoactive substances
cated around 35 miles (60 pounds found in marijuana, in Judahite religion."
kilometers) south of Jeru- and the other had traces The absence of cannabis
salem, in the 1960s discov- of frankincense — one of pollen or seeds from the
ered a stronghold belong- the ingredients mentioned ancient Near East indicates
This undated photo provided by the Israeli Antiquities Authority, ing to the ancient kingdom in the Bible for the incense the cannabis was likely im-
an ancient altar is on display at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. of Judah, and at its core a sacrifice in the ancient ported over long distance
Associated Press
small shrine bearing striking Jewish Temples, the authors trade routes, possibly in
By ILAN BEN ZION temple in southern Israel — similarities to the biblical wrote. The researchers pub- the form of resin, known
Associated Press providing the first evidence Temple in Jerusalem. lished their findings Friday in colloquially as hashish. The
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli of the use of hallucinogen- But for decades, attempts the academic journal, "Tel chemical analysis from the
archaeologists say they've ics in the ancient Jewish to determine the com- Aviv: Journal of the Institute Tel Arad altar showed it
found cannabis residue on religion. In a research pa- position of black deposits of Archaeology of Tel Aviv was burned atop dried ani-
artifacts from an ancient per, the authors say the dis- found on two limestone al- University." Eran Arie, cura- mal dung.q