Nine Buddhist monks were killed and several others in their procession injured when they were hit by an 11-year-old boy driving his parents’ pickup truck in north-east Thailand, police said. The group of 35 monks and five lay followers were walking along a road in Mukdahan province during a pilgrimage when the incident occurred. Footage posted online shows saffron robes and belongings scattered by the roadside, and a wrecked vehicle. Five of the monks died at the scene and four others later in hospital, according to police. They said the boy took the pickup without permission before losing control and…
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A man was rescued alive after being trapped for eight days in the rubble of a building that collapsed after twin earthquakes in Venezuela. Emergency workers managed to free Hernán Gil more than 100 hours after they had first located him under 140 tonnes of rubble. A Chilean firefighter had earlier described the rescue operation as “without doubt the most complex and technically difficult which I’ve had to tackle”. Almost 2,300 people are confirmed to have died in the quakes which hit Venezuela on 24 June, and tens of thousands are still missing. Hundreds of rescuers had been working against…
Kenya and Italy Thursday signed a Letter of Intent aimed at strengthening cooperation in preventing and combating crime, marking another milestone in the growing security partnership between the two countries. The Letter of Intent, signed between Kenya’s Ministry of Interior and National Administration and Italy’s Ministry of the Interior, establishes a framework for enhanced collaboration between the two ministries and their respective police agencies in addressing crime, including transnational organised crime. Speaking during the signing ceremony, Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen said Kenya welcomes Italy’s integrated approach that recognizes the close relationship between development, migration management and security. Under the arrangement,…
European automakers called Wednesday for British vehicles and car parts to fall under the definition of “made in Europe” set out by new rules aiming to bolster the bloc’s industries. Britain currently risks being shut out of the scope of plans unveiled by Brussels in March tying companies’ access to public money to minimum thresholds for EU-made parts in their products. “The European automotive industry operates a deeply integrated value chain with the UK, even post-Brexit,” European car lobby ACEA said. “Vehicles, components and batteries made in the UK should therefore hold the same status as those made in the…
US President Donald Trump hailed the progress on Wednesday of indirect talks between the United States and Iran in Qatar, as the sides aimed to push forward negotiations and quell tensions following exchanges of fire. The US leader said there had been “very good meetings” in Doha after an early dispute over the format threatened to overshadow discussions. Iran insisted there would be no direct negotiations between the sides in the Qatari capital on the two parties’ memorandum of understanding aimed at ending the Middle East war, which broke out with US-Israeli strikes on Iran in late February. “As far…
A Swedish market court on Wednesday ordered Google to pay some 14.3 billion kronor ($1.46 billion) in damages, plus interest, to price comparison site Pricerunner for promoting its own shopping comparisons in search results. The Patent and Market Court in Stockholm said “Pricerunner is deemed to have suffered damage as a result of Google having, for many years, unlawfully favoured its own price comparison service.” The case concerns Sweden, Denmark and the UK and the court said it had ordered Google to pay “just over” 1 billion Swedish kronor, 675 million Danish kroner ($103 million) and £950 million ($1.26 billion)…
Key Takeaways Splashtop ranks #1 for pairing attended and unattended support with strong performance and fair, per-technician pricing. Remote support (attended help) and remote desktop (unattended access) overlap, and the best platforms do both. Security is the deciding factor: encryption, multi-factor authentication, and session logging are non-negotiable. Free and open-source options exist, but they trade away management, branding, and support depth. Pricing models differ sharply, per technician, per endpoint, or free, so match the model to your team. Remote support and remote desktop software are often lumped together, yet they solve different problems: remote support is the attended session where…
Writer E Jean Carroll has asked a judge to order Donald Trump to pay the $5m (£3.7m) in damages awarded by a jury that found the president liable for sexually abusing and defaming her in a civil case three years ago. The request comes a day after the US Supreme Court declined Trump’s request to review the case. In May 2023, a New York jury awarded Carroll the damages over her civil claim that Trump sexually assaulted her in the 1990s, and then branded the incident a hoax on social media. Trump denied the allegations. Lawyers for Carroll said the…
Nigeria says it will seek compensation from South Africa for its citizens who have left the country following recent protests targeting undocumented migrants. Foreign ministry spokesperson Kimiebi Imomotimi Ebienfa told the BBC that the issue would be discussed between the two governments “at the highest levels”. Acting High Commissioner to South Africa Alexander Ajayi said on local television on Tuesday that the government had begun documenting businesses and properties left behind by Nigerians. One Nigerian trader waiting to be repatriated told the BBC he had lived in South Africa for nearly a decade and had abandoned his business and home…
The High Court in Kiambu has suspended the implementation of the National Transport and Safety Authority’s (NTSA) new mandatory annual vehicle inspection regime for private non-commercial vehicles, just hours before the regulations were due to take effect. Justice Francis Nyungu Kyambia issued conservatory orders on Wednesday following a constitutional petition filed by lawyer Wilberforce Akello, temporarily halting the enforcement of key provisions of the Traffic (Motor Vehicle Inspection) Rules, 2026 (Legal Notice No. 13 of 2026), pending the hearing of the case. The court suspended Rule 3(1), which required all privately owned motor vehicles older than four years to undergo…
Victor Willis, the frontman of 1970s disco group Village People, has died at the age of 74, the band’s official social media page has announced. The Texas-born musician was the lead singer and co-writer of the band’s biggest hits including YMCA, Go West and In The Navy. The group became international stars in the 70s by performing while dressed as archetypal macho characters. Willis was alternately a policeman and a naval officer. He left the band in 1980 and spent years fighting a legal battle over copyright to the songs he’d written. But he rejoined in 2017 and performed YMCA…
A 19-year-old woman is among three people to have died from suffocation during World Cup celebrations in Mexico City on Tuesday. A 48-year-old woman and a 44-year-old man also died after crowds descended on the city following the country’s 2-0 victory over Ecuador, the capital’s health authority said on Wednesday. More than one million people took to the streets, mainly around the Angel of Independence monument in downtown, to mark the country’s first World Cup knockout win since 1986, the city government said. City Mayor Clara Brugada expressed her “most sincere condolences” to the victims’ families and pledged support in…
The Government has reaffirmed its commitment to strengthening Kenya’s cybersecurity architecture and developing robust governance frameworks for emerging technologies, including Artificial Intelligence (AI), to safeguard the country’s rapidly expanding digital economy. Speaking during the opening of the Sixth Annual Information Security Management Systems (ISMS) Conference in Naivasha, Principal Secretary for Internal Security and National Administration, Dr. Raymond Omollo, said digital transformation has become a key driver of economic growth, public service delivery and government transparency, but has also increased exposure to cyber threats that require coordinated national action. The three-day conference, jointly organized by the National Computer and Cybercrimes Coordination…
Sudanese paramilitaries committed crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing during their campaign to seize the city of el-Fasher last year, a rights group report says. Sudanese paramilitaries committed crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing during their campaign to seize the city of el-Fasher last year, a rights group report says. The siege and takeover of the city in the western region of Darfur marked one of the bloodiest episodes in Sudan’s civil war between Sudan’s army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). “The RSF’s crimes included murder, forcible transfer, imprisonment, torture, rape, sexual slavery, other forms of sexual violence, enslavement,…
Interior and National Administration Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen Wednesday received a progress update from the technical team tasked with establishing the Nairobi Metropolitan Police Unit. According to the ministry, the team is refining the Unit’s operational framework while ensuring officers will be adequately equipped and trained to tackle emerging security threats and work closely with the public to maintain law and order. “The Nairobi Metropolitan Police Unit will be a model for future policing in Kenya. We must therefore get it right,” Murkomen said. The briefing was attended by Inspector General Douglas Kanja, Mohamed Amin, Deputy Inspector General Eliud Lagat,…