HARARE, Aug. 17 (Xinhua) -- The following are the news highlights in Zimbabwe's major media outlets on Friday.
-- The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) says opposition MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa's petition challenging the July 30 presidential election result which declared President Emmerson Mnangagwa the winner is incurably defective to nullify the results.(The Herald)
-- Zimbabwe's highest court, the Constitutional Court will next Wednesday hear the case in which opposition MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa is contesting President Emmerson Mnangagwa's victory in the July 30 presidential election.(The Herald)
-- Gold worth about 1 million U.S. dollars has vanished from an armory at Plumtree Police Station in Matabeleland South Province, in what ranks as the biggest theft from a police station.(The Herald)
-- Zimbabwe faces the risk of a grave solvency crisis after government experienced a budget overrun of 2.4 billion U.S. dollars and a staggering budget deficit of 2.6 billion U.S. dollars in 2017, about 59 percent in excess of actual revenue receipted.(NewsDay)
-- Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa has accused opposition MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa's lawyers of insulting the judiciary at campaign rallies and also failing to submit all the alleged evidence of vote rigging and manipulation of the July 30 elections before the Constitutional Court, where he is challenging the presidential results.(NewsDay)
-- The United States of America is pilling pressure on Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa by demanding that he institutes a transparent and credible investigation into the August 1 killing of at least six protesters in Harare.(Daily news) Enditem
