Afghan Taliban claim lethal car bomb attack in Kabul

By Reuters,

The Afghan Taliban claimed responsibility on Tuesday for a car bomb attack near a heavily fortified foreign compound in Kabul that killed five people,...

Afghan Taliban , car bomb , Kabul , Spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid

15 people killed in Riverside attack: reuters

By Reuters,

Gunmen blasted their way into an office complex at 14 Riverside, Nairobi on Tuesday, killing at least 15 people and sending workers diving under desks...

14 riverside attack , Al Shabaab

Strike by thousands of junior New Zealand doctors cripples hospitals

By Reuters,

Nearly 80 percent of junior doctors across New Zealand walked off the job at public hospitals on Tuesday after a breakdown in union talks with the gov...

doctors strike , New Zealand , Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern

Riverside terror attack: Situation now under control, country safe – says Matiang’i

By Benjamin Muriuki,

Interior Cabinet Secretary Dr. Fred Matiang'i has confirmed that security teams have retaken control of the 14 Riverside Drive complex which came unde...

14 Riverside Drive , dusitD2 , riverside attack

Stage set for inaugural Baseball National League

By Aphoind Murangiri,

The inaugural Baseball National League is set to kick off this weekend at the Kangaru Boys High School in Embu County with a total of 10 teams confirm...

Election drama builds in DRC

By VOA,

This is new territory for the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC): the presidential election is over, and the nation appears poised to see its first-ev...

DRC ELECTION , Fayulu , Felix Tshisekedi

Embrace medical services at public hospitals: CS Kariuki

By Sam Gituku,

Health Cabinet Secretary Sicily Kariuki has called on Kenyans to embrace medical services at public hospitals to benefit from the universal health cov...

Health Cabinet Secretary Sicily Kariuki , Universal Health Care

Chinese court sentences Canadian to death for drug smuggling

By Reuters,

A Chinese court on Monday sentenced a Canadian man to death for drug smuggling, a ruling sure to aggravate already sour relations between Beijing and ...

china , drug smuggling , Huawei Technologies , Meng Wanzhou

Twalib Mbarak sworn in as new EACC boss

By Benjamin Muriuki,

Twalib Abdallah Mbarak was on Monday sworn in as Chief Executive Officer of the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC). Mr. Mbarak, who takes...

david maraga , EACC , Twalib Abdallah Mbarak

Bolsonaro sends captured Italian fugitive to Salvini as ‘a little gift’

By CNN,

A leftist Italian fugitive has been detained in Bolivia and will be sent to Italy as "a little gift" from far-right Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro...

Cesare Battisti , Interior Minister Matteo Salvini , Italian fugitive , President Jair Bolsonaro

Saudi teen lands in Canada after fleeing family

By CNN,

A Saudi teen who fled to Thailand to escape her allegedly abusive family has arrived in Canada after being offered asylum there. Rahaf Al-Qunun l...

asylum , Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau , Chrystia Freeland , Rahaf Al-Qunun

Italian militant Battisti arrested after 1981 jailbreak

By Reuters,

Italian former leftist guerrilla Cesare Battisti, who has been on the run for almost four decades after being jailed for murder, has been arrested in ...

Cesare Battisti , Italian , Jair Bolsonaro

Ahead of vote, UK PM May warns it would be catastrophic to halt Brexit

By Reuters,

British Prime Minister Theresa May warned lawmakers on Sunday that failing to deliver Brexit would be catastrophic for democracy, in a plea for suppor...

brexit , Theresa May , UK

Congo should recount presidential election vote – Southern African bloc

By Reuters,

Democratic Republic of Congo should recount the votes of its contested presidential election that the runner-up says was rigged, the Southern African ...

Congo , Martin Fayulu , SADC

Congo should recount presidential election vote: Southern African bloc

By Reuters,

Democratic Republic of Congo should recount the votes of its contested presidential election that the runner-up says was rigged, the Southern African ...

Democratic Republic of Congo. , Felix Tshisekedi , President Joseph Kabila , SADC

How a hacked phone may have led killers to Khashoggi

By CNN,

Jamal Khashoggi probably thought the messages he was sending to fellow Saudi dissident Omar Abdulaziz were hidden, cloaked in WhatsApp security. In re...

Jamal Khashoggi , NSO Group , Pegasus

As U.S. shutdown ties record, Trump weighs emergency declaration

By Reuters,

President Donald Trump, facing the prospect of the longest U.S. government shutdown in history, is considering declaring a national emergency that wou...

Government shutdown , Trump , U.S

Macron hopes debate can quell French unrest. So did Louis XVI

By Reuters,

In 1789, Louis XVI summoned France’s aristocracy, clergy and citizens to discuss ways to plug the crown’s dismal finances and quell popular discon...

Emmanuel Macron , FRENCH PRESIDENT , french unrest

Gabon’s Bongo names new PM after thwarted coup attempt

By Reuters,

Gabon’s President Ali Bongo, who has been out of the country for two months recovering from a stroke, named a new prime minister on Saturday in an a...

Ali Bongo (Gabon) , Congo

Uganda not worried China will seize assets over rising debt

By VOA,

Uganda's growing debt is sustainable, and the country is not at risk of losing state assets to China, the country's finance minister, Matia Kasaija, s...

China debt , Museveni , uganda