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World Common Cup Day leads today's complete edition for Zimbabwe.
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A day for tea, coffee, water, juice, and the conversations that begin when someone offers another person a drink.
Zimbabwean soldiers fought in both World Wars for the British Empire, which would later deny them political rights in their own country. The ceremony is held at the cenotaph in Harare, and it is a quiet, complicated affair. The soldiers being honored fought for a regime that considered them second-class subjects. The poppies are worn. The silence is observed. The irony is not lost.