Author: KahawaTungu Reporter

Jim Ratcliffe, the billionaire co-owner of Manchester United, has sparked widespread outrage for claiming the United Kingdom has been “colonized by immigrants,” with club supporters condemning his language as dangerous and divisive and the prime minister demanding an apology. Ratcliffe, who founded petrochemical company Ineos and is one of Britain’s richest men, apologized in a statement Thursday for his “choice of language” — but only after a storm of outrage that drew in senior politicians and soccer fans alike. “I don’t think the (British) economy is in a good place,” Ratcliffe told Sky News on Wednesday. “You can’t have an…

A U.S. judge said President Donald Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit against the BBC can go to trial in 2027. Judge Roy K. Altman of the federal court for the Southern District of Florida rejected an attempt by Britain’s national broadcaster to delay proceedings. He set a February 2027 trial date. Trump filed a lawsuit in December over the way the BBC edited a speech he gave on Jan. 6, 2021. The claim seeks $5 billion in damages for defamation and $5 billion for unfair trade practices. The speech took place before some of Trump’s supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol as…

The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell last week, remaining within the historically healthy range of the past few years. Applications for jobless aid for the week ending Feb. 7 fell by 5,000 to 227,000 from the previous week, the Labor Department reported Thursday. That’s basically in line with the 226,000 new applications that analysts surveyed by the data firm FactSet had forecast. Filings for unemployment benefits are viewed as representative of U.S. layoffs and are close to a real-time indicator of the health of the job market. On Wednesday, the government reported that U.S. employers added a…

The immigration crackdown in Minnesota that led to mass detentions, protests and two deaths is coming to an end, border czar Tom Homan said Thursday. Democratic Gov. Tim Walz said Tuesday that he expected Operation Metro Surge, which started in December, to end in “days, not weeks and months,” based on his conversations with senior Trump administration officials. “As a result of our efforts here, Minnesota is now less of a sanctuary state for criminals,” Homan said at a news conference. “I have proposed and President Trump has concurred, that this surge operation conclude,” he continued. Federal authorities say the…

Two men were buried alive while they were harvesting murram in a village in Webuye, Bungoma County. Police said the incident happened on February 11 as a group of four ventured into a quarry for the murram for construction. Two others escaped unhurt after the wall of the site caved in trapping one Evans Juma, 38 and Wycliffe Masika, 28. The bodies were retrieved and moved to the mortuary pending an autopsy and other procedures. Local administrators visited the scene and declared it a crime scene out of bounds for other miners. Majority of locals venture into the sites for…

Police were Thursday pursuing suspected thugs who wore police uniforms while robbing an employee of Sh1.9 million moments after leaving a bank in Westlands, Nairobi. The victim, who is an employee of MFI along Muthangari Drive as a finance manager, had been to Westlands DTB Bank and withdrew the cash. He then walked to his car and set off to his offices. But before arriving at the offices on February 11, 2026 11 am, a car blocked his way. Two men wearing traffic police uniforms jumped out and ordered him to lower the windshield before they forced him out. He…

Police in Mukaa, Makueni County identified the body of a woman who was found dumped on the roadside after murder elsewhere. She was identified as Irene Wanjiku Ndebe, 54 and a lecturer at the Nairobi Technical Institute. She had been reported missing on February 8, 2026 in Thindigua, Kiambu County. Detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigation arrived at the mortuary as the identification went on. Police said the body was found at the scene on February 7 with visible injuries and the motive of the murder is yet to be known. A team of detectives is investigating the murder…

Russian authorities this week moved to effectively block access to Meta-owned messaging service WhatsApp, a platform used by more than 100 million people in the country, in what the company describes as an effort to steer users toward a state-backed app with potential surveillance capabilities. According to a spokesperson for WhatsApp, the government tried to “fully block” its service nationwide by removing the app from official internet directories managed by the Russian communications watchdog, Roskomnadzor. The move, confirmed by multiple international news outlets, effectively cuts off many users from the encrypted messaging service unless they resort to technical workarounds such…

At least four people were found dead after separate suspected drowning incidents in Mombasa, Kwale, and Kiambu Counties. The victims included two girls aged eight and nine, police said. The first incident was reported in Mavirivirini, Kwale County where juvenile girls aged eight and nine drowned in the Dukuduku River. The parents of the two girls said they had on February 10 to fetch firewood into the Mwatate village when they decided to venture into the river for swimming sessions. It was then that they both tragically drowned, witnesses told police. The bodies were retrieved from the water and handed…

The US House of Representatives has voted to rescind US President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Canadian goods. In a 219 to 211 vote, six Republican lawmakers joined Democrats to back a resolution that seeks to end the tariffs Trump imposed on Canada last year. The vote is largely symbolic as it will still need to be approved by the US Senate and then approved by Trump, who is very unlikely to sign it into law. Since his re-election, Donald Trump has imposed a series of tariffs on Canada, recently threatening a 100% import tax in response to Canada’s proposed trade…

Actor James Van Der Beek, best known for his starring role in US teen drama Dawson’s Creek, has died aged 48 after being diagnosed with bowel cancer. “Our beloved James David Van Der Beek passed peacefully this morning,” his family said in a statement posted to his social media accounts. “He met his final days with courage, faith, and grace.” The star was diagnosed with the disease in the latter half of 2023 but only revealed the news in November 2024. The father of six starred in multiple popular shows and films in the late 1990s and early 2000s, including…

Six people were found dead in suspected murder-suicides in a mountain range in western Bulgaria, officials have said. Three bodies, including that of a 15 year old, were found in a van parked in a remote area of Stara Planina on Sunday. Investigators said they were connected to three others found dead near a burned-down hut six days prior. Officers said CCTV footage showed the two groups saying goodbye to each other at the hut, with the three who remained at the scene later filmed setting it on fire. Bulgaria’s acting prosecutor general Borislav Sarafov said the case contained “more…

The Pogues drummer Andrew Ranken has died aged 72, the band has announced. Ranken was a founding member of the London-based music group and played in some of the band’s best-known songs such as Fairytale of New York and Dirty Old Town. In a statement published online the band said Ranken, who died on Tuesday, was the “heartbeat of The Pogues”. “Andrew, thank you for everything, for your friendship, your wit and your generosity of spirit, and of course for the music, forever a true friend and brother,” the statement reads. Nicknamed “The Clobberer”, Ranken played drums, percussion, harmonica and…

Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram, testified on Wednesday that he does not think users can be “clinically addicted” to the social media app. Mosseri is the first executive to testify in the landmark social media addiction trial against YouTube and Instagram parent company Meta in a suit brought by a now 20-year-old woman identified as Kaley. The woman alleges the companies intentionally developed addictive features to hook young users, which she claims harmed her mental health. The lawsuit is the first of more than 1,500 similar cases to go to trial and could serve as a test of whether…

A major breakthrough in the Nancy Guthrie case largely came down to Google’s technical expertise, a person familiar with the investigation told CNN. The mother of “Today” host Savannah Guthrie disappeared over a week ago in Arizona. But on Tuesday, authorities revealed footage of a masked and armed person outside her door on the day she went missing after initially saying the video was not able to be recovered. Engineers at Google, which owns Nest, were able to recover data after several days. The task was so technically complex that investigators didn’t know if it would be successful, the source…