Álvaro Uribe has become the first former Colombian president to be convicted of a crime. A court in Bogotá found the 73-year-old, who was president from 2002 to 2010, guilty of witness-tampering and a fraud charge. He was convicted of…
Thailand has accused Cambodia of “deliberately” violating a ceasefire the two countries had agreed on Monday to end border clashes that have killed at least 33 people and displaced thousands. It’s a shaky start for the ceasefire, which was meant…
US President Donald Trump has presented a new, shorter deadline for Russia to agree to a ceasefire over the war in Ukraine of “ten or 12 days” from Monday. President Trump said there was “no reason” in waiting any longer…
NAIROBI, Kenya, Jul 29 – Nairobi-based Mwiki Company Limited has lost its bid to reclaim land titles revoked by the National Land Commission (NLC) after the Court of Appeal upheld a ruling declaring the parcels public property. Justices Francis Tuiyott,…
Kidnappers in Nigeria have killed at least 35 people they abducted from a village in northern Zamfara state despite ransoms being paid for their release, a local official told the BBC. In recent years, criminal gangs in the region, known…
NAIROBI, Kenya, Jul 29 – Stephen Munyakho, the Kenyan freed from a Saudi Arabia jail last Tuesday, has arrived back home. Munyakho who had spent 14 years in jail facing a death sentence was received at the Jomo Kenyatta International…
The Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) Youth League has opposed the nomination of Harold Kimuge Kipchumba to replace Treasury CS John Mbadi in Parliament as a nominated MP. Addressing the press at Chungwa House on Monday, ODM Youth League President John…
Police officer Klinzy Barasa has pleaded not guilty to killing mask vendor Boniface Kariuki on July 17. Barasa, who appeared before High Court Judge Kanyi Kimondo, is accused of fatally shooting Kariuki during a protest in which police were deployed…
The President pointed out that while meaningful and significant progress has been made in providing the world with more sufficient, safe, and nutritious food, more needs to be done to make it a universal success. He said although the world’s…
Eef Hogervorst, Loughborough University More and more research suggests that the copper in your diet could play a bigger role in brain health than we once believed. A recent study found that older Americans who ate more copper-rich foods did…