At least 169 people were killed after insurgents raided a village in a remote area of South Sudan, a local official said Monday, It’s the latest bout of sporadic violencethat has left the country teetering on the verge of full-blown civil war. The victims, including 90 civilians, were attacked on Sunday in Abiemnom county, said James Monyluak, information minister for the administrative area of Ruweng. He said women and children were among the dead, in addition to dozens of combatants. The U.N. Mission in South Sudan, known as UNMISS, said in a statement that 1,000 people sought shelter at its…
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Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi departed for New Delhi to participate in the prestigious Raisina Dialogue, India’s premier annual conference on geopolitics and geoeconomics, scheduled for March 5–7. Mudavadi, who serves as Kenya’s Prime Cabinet Secretary and Cabinet Secretary for Foreign and Diaspora Affairs, will represent president William Ruto at the high-level global forum that convenes leaders, policymakers, academics, industry experts, and journalists to deliberate on pressing international issues. During the three-day conference, Mudavadi is expected to outline Kenya’s intensified economic diplomacy agenda under President Ruto’s administration. He will highlight bilateral trade and investment agreements signed to expand market access…
The Government is constructing more than 47,000 housing units for security officers under the Affordable Housing Programme, as part of broader reforms aimed at improving welfare within the security sector. The progress was reviewed during a meeting of the Governance and Public Administration (GPA) Sub-Committee of the National Development Implementation Committee (NDIC), chaired by the Principal Secretary for Internal Security and National Administration, Raymond Omollo. The Sub-Committee noted steady implementation of the National Institutional Housing Programme, initially designed to address housing deficits within the police and prison services and later expanded to cover additional security agencies. The security cluster now…
The Government has reiterated its unwavering commitment to maintaining peace, protecting democratic freedoms, and ensuring that all Kenyans can freely express their views without fear or intimidation. Speaking at Rutune School in Nyeri County, the Principal Secretary for Internal Security and National Administration, Raymond Omollo, declared that the administration will not condone political violence, hooliganism, or any unlawful conduct in the country’s political and social spaces. Dr. Omollo stressed that while freedom of expression is a constitutional right, it must be exercised within the confines of the law. He warned that cases involving violence, intimidation, or unlawful mobilization would be…
At least nine people have been killed and 27 injured in a missile strike on the Israeli city of Beit Shemesh, emergency services say. The attack comes as Iran launched strikes across the Middle East in response to a massive and ongoing attack against it by the US and Israel. One person has been killed in Abu Dhabi, capital of the United Arab Emirates, and and a death has also been reported in Kuwait. Dozens more people have been injured in strikes across the region. Thousands of flights have been grounded to and from the region, in one of the…
Los Angeles School Superintendent Alberto Carvalho is being put on paid leave while he is part of a federal investigation. The move on Friday by the Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education comes two days after the FBI served search warrants at his home and the district’s headquarters. Authorities have not provided details of the nature of the investigation involving the nation’s second-largest school district, which serves more than 500,000 students. Carvalho became superintendent in 2022. He previously led the public schools in Miami. Andres Chait, the chief of school operations, will take over the helm while Carvalho…
Passengers rushed to evacuate one of the world’s busiest airports on Sunday after a reported Iranian strike, as Tehran targeted travel hubs in US-friendly Gulf states typically regarded as safe, luxury destinations. Dramatic footage shows people fleeing a smoke-filled passageway strewn with furniture and debris at Dubai International Airport, where officials confirmed four staff had been injured. Hours later, an explosion near the airport sent a thick plume of black smoke into the air – part of a fresh wave of Iranian strikes across the Middle East on Sunday following the death of Iran’s supreme leader in US-Israeli strikes. The…
At least three people were killed, including the suspected gunman, and 14 others were wounded when gunfire erupted around 2 a.m. CT Sunday in Austin’s bustling entertainment district as bars were closing, authorities said. Police responded to reports of a shooting at a popular bar and fatally shot the suspect. Three of those hospitalized are in critical condition, officials said. Authorities received a call about a man shooting at Buford’s Backyard Beer Garden at West Sixth and Rio Grande streets in downtown Austin, Police Chief Lisa Davis said. “Officers immediately transitioned, came over East Sixth to West Sixth Street and…
Thousands of people are stranded across the Middle East as Iran launched attacks across the region in response to a massive and ongoing attack against it by the US and Israel. In Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates, two luxury hotels and its main airport – the world’s busiest by passenger traffic – have been damaged. The BBC has spoken to people who live in the Emirate, as well as those who are on holiday. Dubai resident Becky Williams said she saw about 15 missiles “launched from behind my house yesterday”, referring to missiles fired by UAE authorities to intercept…
At least 108 people have died in an explosion at a school in southern Iran, according to a local prosecutor. It happened as the US and Israel launched massive air strikes against the country. President Masoud Pezeshkian said it was a “barbaric act” and “another black page in the record of countless crimes committed by the aggressors”. There has been no confirmation by the two Western countries of the attack on the school – located near a base of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps, which has been the target of the strikes. The Iranian Red Crescent said at least 201 people…
Donald Trump has just announced that Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei has been killed. Here is his whole post on his Truth Social Platform: Khamenei, one of the most evil people in History, is dead. This is not only Justice for the people of Iran, but for all Great Americans, and those people from many Countries throughout the World, that have been killed or mutilated by Khamenei and his gang of bloodthirsty THUGS. He was unable to avoid our Intelligence and Highly Sophisticated Tracking Systems and, working closely with Israel, there was not a thing he, or the other leaders that have…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday evening that “there are many signs” that Iran’s supreme leader is “no longer with us,” while stopping short of saying definitively that he was killed. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi earlier told NBC that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and other high-ranking officials in Iran are still alive, as far as he knew. Iran has not published a video of Khamenei since the strikes began Saturday morning. CNN previously reported that Khamenei was one of the targets of the opening salvo of strikes on Iran along with other senior leaders, but Israeli sources said…
National Assembly Speaker Moses Wetang’ula confirmed the untimely death of Emurua Dikirr Member of Parliament Johana Ng’eno, who perished in a helicopter crash on Saturday afternoon. In a solemn communication to the House, the Speaker informed Members of Parliament and the broader parliamentary fraternity that Ng’eno, MP, was among six people who lost their lives in the crash that occurred at around 4:45 p.m. in Mosop, Nandi County. “It is with profound sorrow that I hereby notify the House and the entire Parliamentary fraternity of the untimely and tragic demise of the Member of Parliament for Emurua Dikirr Constituency,” the…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced late Friday that the company had signed a deal with the Pentagon for its AI toolsto be used in the military’s classified systems, but with seemingly similar guardrails rival Anthropic had also requested. The deal with OpenAI comes the same day President Donald Trump announced all federal government agencies must cease using Anthropic’s AI tools, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth declared that the company would be deemed a “supply chain risk,” all over refusing to back down in its negotiations with the Pentagon over requested restrictions of its AI system being used in autonomous weapons…
Members of Congress are raising questions after a photograph they say shows Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick alongside Jeffrey Epstein on the late sex offender’s private island was briefly removed from the Justice Department’s website. The image had been hosted in the department’s online repository of Epstein-related files uploaded in late January under the Epstein Files Transparency Act. At one point, the original page containing the photograph on Justice.gov returned an error message, though a version captured by the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine on January 31, 2026, remained accessible onlineand included the photograph. The page has since been restored and a…