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By Agencies A Supreme Court judge in Brazil authorized police to access the bank records of ex-president Jair Bolsonaro and his wife, Michelle, over allegations they embezzled jewellery and other official gifts, media reports said. Bolsonaro and former aides are under investigation over allegations they tried to illegally keep and sell expensive objects received from countries such as Saudi Arabia and Bahrain during his presidency, including a diamond-encrusted Rolex and jewels from Swiss luxury house. Local media said Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes authorized federal police to investigate the Bolsonaros’s bank and tax records in Brazil, and also request…

Former New York Senator James Buckley, an early agitator for then-President Richard Nixon’s resignation and winner of a landmark lawsuit challenging campaign spending limits, died Friday at age 100. Buckley died at a hospital in Washington, D.C., according to his son David Buckley of Arlington, Virginia. Buckley was the fourth of 10 children of a millionaire oilman and older brother of conservative commentator William F. Buckley Jr., who died in February 2008. He was the last survivor of the 10 siblings. Buckley was the sole Conservative Party candidate to win statewide office in New York, elected to the U.S. Senate…

Chinese President Xi Jinping will attend next week’s summit of the BRICS nations in Johannesburg, to be followed by a state visit to South Africa, the Foreign Ministry said Friday. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying also said in a statement that during his Aug. 21-24 visit to South Africa, Xi will co-chair the China-Africa Leaders’ Dialogue with his South African counterpart, Cyril Ramaphosa. China is a core member of the BRICS nations, which also include Brazil, Russia and India. The grouping was predicated on linking the interests of the world’s leading emerging economies but has sought to expand into other…

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it is tracking new lineage of the virus that causes COVID-19 after it was detected in the United States. Named BA.2.86, the strain was first detected in Denmark on July 24 of this year, then Israel, followed by Michigan in August for a total of four cases, according to the open global genome sequencing database GISAID. “Today we are more prepared than ever to detect and respond to changes in the COVID-19 virus,” a CDC spokesperson told ABC News. “Scientists are working now to understand more about the newly identified lineage in…

A 27-year-old engineering student, who set himself ablaze in an attempt to take his own life on Thursday, has died. Coast General Chief Hospital Administrator Dr Iqbal Khandwalla said the man sustained severe burns and died while admitted at the ICU. “He had severe burns and succumbed to injuries,” said Dr Khandwalla. Officials said Robert Gituru died at the Coast General Hospital’s Intensive Care Unit (ICU) on Friday morning. Ahmed Miraj, a classmate of Gituru’s at Eldoret University said the deceased graduated with a degree in Mechanical Engineering in 2021. “We joined in 2014 but remained in school for seven…

Pastor Ezekiel Odero of Newlife Church has appealed against a decision by the Registrar of Societies to deregister his church. Through lawyer Dunstan Omari, the man of the cloth argued that the registrar did not notify him of the deregistration. The court heard that the move was in bad faith as he had a conference scheduled for Saturday. The conference dubbed ‘Meza ya Bwana’ is set to run for two weeks with over 100,000 attendees. “By law that appeal served as a stay for the next 90 days before the Attorney General makes a decision,” said Omari. Read: Pastor Ezekiel’s Newlife…

Nairobi is once again cracking down on nightclubs still operating in residential areas. In a memo dated August 17, Nairobi Regional Commissioner Katee Mwanza ordered all Deputy County Commissioners to take legal action against owners of the businesses. The circular raises concern that some clubs continue to operate with the help of corrupt law enforcement officials. The new instructions mandate that Deputy County Commissioners produce a list of the nightclubs and bars that are open in residential areas within their sub-counties by Friday. Read: Nine Clubs Mirema Shooting Victim Samuel Mugota Allegedly Targeted “Submit a confidential list of officers involved in…

Fafi MP Salah Yakub was Thursday evening attacked by unknown assailants at Dagega area while leaving the burial of one of the victims of the Garissa killings. Officials said the attack was out of retaliation following an earlier one in here six people were killed in Kunaso area within Garissa town on Wednesday. Some journalists who were caught up in the crossfire on Thursday were forced to seek refuge at Galmagala Police Station, witnesses said. The MP said his convoy of about seven cars was ambushed in Dagega area on its way to Garissa in an attack that lasted about…

The Registrar of Societies has canceled the registration of Newlife Prayer Centre and Church linked to Pastor Ezekiel Odero who was recently at the center of a money laundering and cult investigation. Pastor Ezekiel’s Kilifi-based church is among five other churches whose registrations have been revoked, in a move to crackdown on religious institutions. Other churches deregistered include Helicopter of Christ Church, Theophilus Church, Kings Outreach Church, and Goodnews International Ministries. Read: Pastor Ezekiel Allowed Access to Frozen Accounts “In exercise of the powers conferred by section 12 (1) of the Societies Act, the Registrar of Societies cancels the registration of…

Only officers from formation units in the National Police Service will be deployed to Haiti to combat gang violence that has wracked the Caribbean nation. More than 1,000 officers will be picked from the Rapid Deployment Unit, Anti Stock Theft Unit, General Service Unit and Border Patrol Unit to form a larger team for deployment. This is likely to happen in two months time. Top police officers departed for Haiti on an assessment mission ahead of the planned deployment of 1,000 Kenya police officers. Kenya will lead an international police force aimed for the mission to begin probably in a…

Before he was nominated as the next Director of Public Prosecution (DPP), little was known about Renson Mulele Ingonga. Many didn’t even know about him before he was shortlisted for interviews for the post. And more surprises came out for many when President William Ruto Thursday Mulele as the next Director of Public Prosecutions. He is a trained lawyer. Before his nomination, Mulele was based at Garissa as the local in charge of the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions. He had been picked from Mombasa Lands office in early 2018 where he worked as a registrar. After joining…

A Texas woman has been charged with threatening to kill a judge who is overseeing a criminal case against former US President Donald Trump. Abigail Jo Shry, 43, allegedly phoned the court in Washington DC on 5 August and used a racial slur in her message for US District Judge Tanya Chutkan. Ms Shry also allegedly threatened to kill a Democratic member of Congress. She admitted making the call after investigators traced her phone number, according to a court document. In the call, Ms Shry allegedly told the judge, who is overseeing an election conspiracy case against Mr Trump: “You…

A Canadian woman has been jailed for 22 years in the US for sending letters laced with ricin poison, including to Donald Trump when he was president. Pascale Ferrier, 56, agreed to the sentence in January after pleading guilty to biological weapons charges. The deadly envelope addressed to Mr Trump was intercepted in September 2020 before delivery to the White House. Ferrier told the court that she regretted that her plan had failed and that she “couldn’t stop Trump”. In a long-winded address to the court, she also said that she saw herself as an activist not a terrorist. “I…

Sam Asghari, husband to pop icon Britney Spears, has announced that the couple has chosen to end their marital journey after 14 months of marriage. The divorce petition, filed on Wednesday obtained by Kahawa Tungu cited “irreconcilable differences” between Asghari, 29, and Spears, 41. The pair got engaged in September 2021 and tied the knot in an intimate yet star-studded ceremony in June 2022. Their relationship had been under the spotlight due to rumors of struggles, as reported by US tabloids earlier this year. Spears, whose meteoric rise began with the release of …Baby One More Time at the age…

Property giant Evergrande has filed for bankruptcy protection in the US as the real estate crisis in China deepens. It will allow the heavily-indebted company to protect its assets in the US as it works on a multi-billion dollar deal with creditors. The company defaulted on its huge debts in 2021 which sent shockwaves through global financial markets, BBC said. The move comes as problems in China’s property market add to concerns about the world’s second largest economy. China Evergrande Group made the Chapter 15 bankruptcy protection filing in a New York court on Thursday. Chapter 15 protects the US…