Author: KahawaTungu Reporter

Two Delta Air Lines workers have been killed and one has been seriously injured after an accident at an airline maintenance facility in Atlanta. The workers were servicing a Delta plane at the airline’s wheel and brake shop at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport shortly after 05:00 local time Tuesday. It’s not clear how the incident occurred. Local medical authorities identified the dead men as Mirko Marweg, 58, and Luis Aldarondo, 37. The name of the injured person was not released. In a statement, the airline said: “The Delta family is heartbroken at the loss of two team members and the…

US Department of Justice Special Counsel Jack Smith filed a superseding indictment against former president Donald Trump for his alleged attempts to interfere in the 2020 election following his loss to Joe Biden. The new charging document tailors the allegations against Trump to the recent US Supreme Court ruling that presidents are immune from prosecution for certain in-office acts. The re-tooled indictment maintains four criminal counts against Trump, but it carves out some of the descriptions of his alleged conduct. Trump has denied the election interference allegations, though he has maintained his claim – without evidence – that there was…

Vice-President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz – the Democratic ticket for US president – have agreed to their first joint interview. The two politicians will sit-down with CNN in Georgia for an interview that airs Thursday at 21:00 EDT (02:00 BST). It will be the candidates’ first in-depth on-the-record conversation with a reporter since President Joe Biden exited the race and endorsed Ms Harris as his replacement more than five weeks ago. Since the vice-president moved to the top of the ticket, Republicans have criticised her for appearing to avoid the press and accused her of leaving voters…

The first rioter to enter the US Capitol on 6 January 2021 in an attempt to stop the official certification of the US presidential election has been sentenced to more than four years in prison. Michael Sparks, 47, was convicted of civil disorder, disorderly conduct and other related charges at trial in March. On Tuesday, US District Judge Timothy Kelly sentenced him to 53 months in prison and a $2,000 (£1,500) fine. At his sentencing hearing, Sparks told the judge he still believes in false theories that the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump. “I am an American citizen…

The Israeli military said Tuesday it rescued a Bedouin Arab hostage who was kidnapped by Hamas gunmen during the 7 October attack on Israel and taken back to Gaza. Kaid Farhan Elkadi, 52, was rescued in a “complex operation in the southern Gaza Strip” by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and Shin Bet domestic security service, according to a statement. No further details could be published “due to considerations of the safety of our hostages, the security of our forces, and national security”, it said. Mr Elkadi is in a stable condition and has been transferred to a hospital for…

Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg says he regrets bowing to what he calls pressure from the Biden administration to “censor” content on Facebook and Instagram during the coronavirus pandemic. In a letter sent to a US House committee chair, he said some material – including humour and satire – was taken down in 2021 under pressure from senior officials. The White House has defended its actions, saying it encouraged “responsible actions to protect public health and safety”. Mr Zuckerberg also said his firm briefly “demoted” content relating to Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, ahead of the 2020 election, after the FBI warned…

More than 470,000 National ID cards are lying uncollected at registration offices and Huduma Centres across the country. Immigration Principal Secretary Julius Bitok announced Tuesday that as of August 26, 2024, there were 476,167 uncollected IDs. He urged those who have made applications to visit the registration centers where they initially submitted their applications to collect their cards promptly. The PS said the National Registration Bureau (NRB) has cleared the backlog of National ID card applications He said the National Registration Bureau has ramped up its production capacity to 32,000 cards per day and introduced 24-hour services to expedite the…

Police have revealed details of an accident that involved a new Range Rover and an Isuzu canter along Mombasa highway at Mariakani area, Kilifi County.  At least two people were killed on Tuesday morning when the wheel drive car collided head on with the canter. Three others were injured in the accident that left both the Range Rover and the FRR Isuzu canter. Police said the driver identified as Jamal Mubarak, 37 died alongside a female passenger. The accident happened at Maji Ya Chumvi area at about 7 am. The driver was speeding from Mombasa to Nairobi direction when he…

Elon Musk’s Starlink is terminating the packages of users who had been accessing the company’s high-speed-internet services illegally, including in South Africa. Many people who had been using Starlink in South Africa took to local Starlink Facebook groups over the weekend, complaining that their services had been terminated. This after SpaceX, which owns Starlink, sent emails to customers accessing services in countries where the satellite internet provider didn’t have regulatory approval earlier this month. The company said their services would be off after 21 August. SpaceX issued a similar threat in April this year but seemingly didn’t follow through with…

Pavel Durov is a lot of things to a lot of people. Programming prodigy. Billionaire entrepreneur. Kremlin stooge. Free-speech fighter. Biological father to at least 100 kids. Durov, the elusive founder of Telegram who was detained in France over the weekend, cuts the figure of a mysterious, globe-trotting tech bro with Mark Zuckerberg’s prodigiousness, Jack Dorsey’s bizarre lifestyle habits and Elon Musk’s libertarian streak – plus a similar obsession with pronatalism and fathering children. Durov saidin July that he had fathered more than 100 children thanks to sperm donations he had made over the past 15 years. Worth an estimated…

A police officer was arrested in a probe into claims of abduction of a man at a short stay room in Pangani area, Nairobi. The constable of police is said to have with a woman lured the man to the room in pretext they offered massage service. When the man arrived at the room, he was held captive and at gunpoint and the captors demanded a ransom of S200,000 (USD1500). The drama started on August 24. The victim told police he pleaded with the abductors who included the woman, two other men and the officer attached to Border Patrol Unit…

Two police officers were Monday August 26 attacked and injured as they tried to arrest a wanted suspect in a village in Makueni County. The officers had gone to effect arrest within lyaini village of Kyamuoso location when drama erupted. According to police on arrival, they knocked on the house of the suspect Daniel Mwongela, and introduced themselves but he refused to open the door. He instead raised an alarm, and family members responded and attacked the officers by pelting stones at them. The officers said they sustained injuries and were treated at Kyambeke Health Center and discharged in stable…

US soldier Travis King, who fled from South to North Korea before being returned home, will plead guilty to desertion and other charges, his lawyer has said.  The army filed 14 charges against Mr King for the illegal crossing in July 2023. He plans to enter a guilty plea to five charges, including desertion and assault, as part of a plea deal. “He will plead not guilty to the remaining offenses, which the Army will withdraw and dismiss,” his lawyer Franklin Rosenblatt said in a statement to BBC News. His plea and sentencing hearing will take place on 20 September…

A federal judge in Texas has issued an order temporarily halting a new immigration programme from the Biden White House that officials say could protect hundreds of thousands of undocumented spouses of US citizens from deportation. The 14-day stay issued on Monday comes in response to a lawsuit from 16 Republican-led states that sued the Biden administration over the programme. The “Keeping Families Together” programme, which took effect last week, would apply to those who have been in the country for at least 10 years and allow them to work in the US legally. Polls show that the immigration is…

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said he plans to lower the number of low-wage, temporary foreign workers and permanent residents being let into Canada. Mr Trudeau made the announcement on Monday, on the second day of a cabinet retreat where his team is hammering out their autumn agenda. It comes as Canada grapples with a rapidly growing population that economists say has put strain on housing and public services like healthcare. The vast majority of Canada’s population growth last year – about 97% – was driven by immigration, according to the federal statistics. Mr Trudeau and his government have been…