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Auma Obama, the elder half-sister of former President Barack Obama, was tear-gassed by police along with her daughter as they were being interviewed during protests in Nairobi, Kenya, over the government's enacting of an austere tax bill.
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Barack Obama’s Sister And Niece Tear-Gassed During Kenyan Protests

Kenyan police said they have arrested more than 270 people masquerading as protesters who are suspected of going on a criminal rampage during anti-government rallies on Tuesday. Widespread looting and property damage was reported during the youth-led demonstrations in various cities across the country, which some protesters said had been...

Kenyan police arrest hundreds accused of looting during anti-government protests

A woman has told the High Court that students have taken protest action over a university's "complicity in what is a genocide" in Gaza, due to its links to arms firms. The University of Birmingham is seeking to end a pro-Palestinian encampment on a campus green space. Lawyers representing student...

University and student in court fight over protest

NAIROBI (Reuters) -Kenyan President William Ruto on Friday proposed spending cuts and additional borrowing in roughly equal measure to fill a nearly $2.7 billion budget hole caused by his withdrawal of planned tax hikes in the face of nationwide protests. Ruto scrapped the finance bill containing the tax increases in...

Kenya's Ruto Proposes Spending Cuts After Nationwide Protests

A man and a woman have been charged over the death of a three-year-old boy who was attacked by a dangerous dog. Daniel Twigg died after sustaining injuries from the dog on Tunshill Lane, Milnrow, Rochdale, on 15 May 2022. Mark Twigg, 42, of King Street, Radcliffe, Greater Manchester, and...

Man and woman charged over boy's dog attack death

Two friends from Kent say they are traumatised after witnessing the death of a Romanian tourist during a mountain safari in Turkey. Faith O'Neill and Cheryl Morris, from Northfleet, near Gravesend, say they were offered no support after the incident on a tour in Alanya. Contstantin Butnarescu, 32, a Romanian...

Tourists traumatised after witnessing safari death

BBC News, Mexico, Central America and Cuba Correspondent. Having survived the night as Hurricane Beryl tore across her idyllic home of Union Island with ferocious force, Katrina Coy was taken aback by the extent of the devastation which lay before her. Virtually every building on the island, which lies off...

'Almost whole island homeless' in Hurricane Beryl's wake

A transgender woman and darts player from Hull who has faced a wave of abuse and exclusion from competitions says she has been questioning her future within the game. Samantha Lewis's passion for darts runs deep, and the sport has spanned generations in her family. "Darts has been in my...

Transgender darts player shaken by abuse and bans

Objects more than a millennia old have gone on display at a Wiltshire museum to celebrate the life of the Anglo-Saxon King Athelstan 1,100 years after he came to the throne. Athelstan Museum in Malmesbury has put on display artefacts loaned from the British Museum and the Ashmolean Museum for the Athelstan 1100 exhibition.

Anglo-Saxon exhibition on first King of all England

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A fight between passengers marred the final night of a Carnival Cruise Line sailing on June 6th. The incident, which unfolded in the Lido Deck dining room onboard the Carnival Paradise, involved a group of women and resulted in thrown chairs and plates.

Cruise Ship Fight Near Buffet Captured on Camera, Passengers Banned for Life

The 17-year-old boy died in hospital after the incident at West Wittering beach, police say.

Boy, 17, dies during school trip to the beach

A 30-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after the blaze broke out in Hereford.

Murder arrest after man dies in house fire

A man has received a suspended prison sentence following an incident of road rage on the A55. Paul Woodward, of Melyd Avenue, Prestatyn recently appeared before Caernarfon Crown Court following the incident on the eastbound carriageway of Rhuallt Hill in September last year. CCTV footage shows Woodward, 55, who was...

Road rage ramming incident caught on CCTV

Parents of an 11-year-old girl who had to be put on dialysis after contracting E. coli from a supermarket sandwich have said they "want answers". The girl, from Merseyside, was in hospital for three weeks with haemolytic uraemic syndrome (HUS), which attacks the kidneys, after eating an own-brand sandwich from Asda supermarket, legal firm Fieldfisher said.

Girl, 11, 'needed dialysis after eating Asda sandwich'

The alarm was raised when an empty motorboat was spotted on the water.

Man dies after being pulled from lake

Two children, including a two-year-old girl, have been taken to hospital with serious injuries after being attacked by a dog in Barnsley. Police were called to Broadwater in Bolton-upon-Dearne at about 08:15 BST following reports a man, a nine-year-old boy and the girl had been bitten. South Yorkshire Police said...

Two children seriously injured in dog attack

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Newark, NJ – Evangelos Megariotis, a 72-year-old orthopedic surgeon from Clifton, admitted to multiple counts of unlawfully prescribing pain medications to his patients. U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced the guilty plea today.

Surgeon Guilty of Illegal Narcotic Prescriptions, Faces 20 Years

Daniel Leggasick admitted two allegations about his conduct at Devon and Cornwall Police.

Police officer was 'misleading and dishonest'

Paige Poulton, 19, is charged with murder after the death of Jack Cadwallader on Tuesday.

Woman charged with murder after man dies

A man has been arrested after another man was seriously injured at a property in Telford. A disturbance at an address on Chiltern Gardens was reported to police at about 06:30 BST. Emergency crews found the man and took him to hospital, where he remains in a stable condition, West...

Man arrested over serious assault

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Tear gas fired at anti-government protesters in Kenya

Kenyan police have fired tear gas in the capital, Nairobi, and the coastal city of Mombasa to disperse anti-government protests. In both city centres many businesses...

Tear gas fired at anti-government protesters in Kenya

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