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A 9-Year-Old Found A Gun And Fatally Shot A 6-Year-Old In Florida

17Aug

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A 9-Year-Old Found A Gun And Fatally Shot A 6-Year-Old In Florida

6-year-old boy was fatally shot in the head this week by a 9-year-old boy who got a hold of a gun inside a Florida home, authorities said. The younger child was taken Monday to a hospital, where he died, Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office Assistant Chief J.D. Stronko said in a news conference. An adult at home during the shooting has been questioned by authorities, Stanko said. There is no indication of criminal violence and no one has been charged with a crime, he said, adding the circumstances of the shooting were under investigation. The incident adds to the growing tally of children up to age 17 killed this year in gun violence: 1,114 as of Wednesday, with another 3,065 injured, Gun Violence Archive data shows. Children and teens are more likely to die by guns than any othe...

Canada Warns Of Fake Immigration Programs Targeting Kenyans

17May

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Canada Warns Of Fake Immigration Programs Targeting Kenyans

Canada has issued a warning over fake special programs being circulated online purporting to welcome Kenyan immigrants to the North American country. Canada’s Immigration Department on Tuesday said such programs do not exist and trashed such information as false. “Disinformation is circulating which suggests that special programs are welcoming Kenyan immigrants. This is false, and the immigration programs referenced do not exist,” the department said in a tweet, along with a link to the official immigration website for accurate information on how to immigrate. Amid the biting cost of living and high unemployment rates, Kenyans have been chasing opportunities online, with most seeking to emigrate to the USA, Canada and Middle Eastern countries such as Saudi Arabia. On Tuesd...

Sky News Australia Quits TikTok, Says Security Risks ‘Too Great’ For Media

11Apr

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Sky News Australia Quits TikTok, Says Security Risks ‘Too Great’ For Media

Australian broadcaster Sky News has left TikTok because of security concerns that have led several Western governments to ban the video app on devices used by officials. In an article published on the Sky News Australia website Monday, digital editor Jack Houghton said the security risks posed by the “Beijing-controlled platform” were “too great for any serious news publisher.” “TikTok is a spy network masquerading as a social media platform which has been proven to illegally pilfer the data of journalists, public citizens and politicians,” Houghton wrote. “We urge [media organizations] to consider this dilemma and stop trading security and integrity for a few worthless views,” he added. CNN has reached out to TikTok for a response. Experts say the security fears behind...

China Jails Two Prominent Human Rights Lawyers For Over Ten Years

10Apr

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China Jails Two Prominent Human Rights Lawyers For Over Ten Years

Two prominent Chinese human rights lawyers, including one who had called for leader Xi Jinping to resign, have been jailed for over a decade, an advocacy group and one of the men's wives said Monday. Xu Zhiyong and fellow campaigner Ding Jiaxi were convicted of "subversion of state power" following closed-door trials. Both were leading figures in the New Citizens' Movement, a civil rights group that called for constitutional reform and criticised government corruption. Xu, who called for President Xi to step down over his handling of the Covid-19 pandemic, was jailed for 14 years after a closed-door trial in east China's Shandong province, advocacy group Human Rights Watch said. Ding was "jailed for 12 years and deprived of political rights for three years", his wife Luo S...

Sentencing date set for fiance of Kenyan woman missing in US

8Apr

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Sentencing date set for fiance of Kenyan woman missing in US

The sentencing date of the fiancé of Ms Irene Gakwa, a Kenyan woman who went missing in the USA, has been scheduled for June 14. Mr Nathan Hightman, 39, already pleaded guilty to three felony charges on March 28 and was jailed, pending sentencing by Campbell County District Court Judge James Michael Causey. The suspect pleaded guilty to illegally accessing Ms Gakwa’s bank account and withdrawing more than Sh340,000, as well as deleting her Gmail account. “As a result of his plea, Hightman’s Sh1,000,000 cash bond was revoked. He is currently being housed in the general population at the Campbell County Detention Center, according to Matthew Centner, the jail’s administrative assistant,” USA based Wyoming Truth reported on April 6. Ms Gakwa disappeared in February 2022. Her...

Dozens Hurt In Netherlands Train Accident

4Apr

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Dozens Hurt In Netherlands Train Accident

A passenger train carrying at least 50 people derailed in the Netherlands early on Tuesday after hitting construction equipment on the track and several dozen people were injured, many seriously, Dutch emergency services said. Rescue teams were at the scene of the accident at Voorschoten, a village near The Hague, the emergency services said. Some of the injured were being treated on the spot and others were being taken to hospital, the emergency services said. The front carriage of the night train from Leiden city to The Hague derailed and ploughed into a field after the accident, ANP news agency said. The second carriage was on its side and a fire broke out in the rear carriage but was later extinguished, it said. Earlier reports had said the passenger train had collided...

Seven Dead, More Than 60 Missing In Ecuador Landslide

28Mar

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Seven Dead, More Than 60 Missing In Ecuador Landslide

Rescuers searched Monday for more than 60 people reported missing after a landslide triggered by months of heavy rain killed at least seven people in southern Ecuador. The mudslide happened overnight Sunday into Monday, burying dozens of homes and injuring 23 people in the village of Alausi in Chimborazo province, some 300 kilometers (180 miles) south of Quito, officials said. Shocked residents, many in tears, stood waiting for news Monday as crews with shovels, pick axes and sniffer dogs dug through the debris to get to survivors stuck between sheets of twisted metal and split tree trunks. "Five are buried here," Manuel Upai, a 40-year-old laborer, told AFP, referring to relatives of his as he stared at the muddy ground. Alausi, a village of some 45,000 people surrou...

Netanyahu Sacks Defence Minister, Sparking Mass Protests In Israel

27Mar

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Netanyahu Sacks Defence Minister, Sparking Mass Protests In Israel

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday sacked Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, triggering mass protests, a day after Gallant broke ranks with the government and urged a halt to a highly contested plan to overhaul the judicial system. As news of the dismissal spread, tens of thousands of protesters, many waving blue and white Israeli flags, took to the streets late at night across the country. Crowds gathered outside Netanyahu's home in Jerusalem, at one point breaching a security cordon. Some three months since taking office, Netanyahu's nationalist-religious coalition has been plunged into crisis over the bitter divisions exposed by its flagship judicial overhaul plans. "State security cannot be a card in the political game. Netanyahu crossed a red line tonight," ...

South Africa Protests To End At Midnight, Julius Malema Says

20Mar

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South Africa Protests To End At Midnight, Julius Malema Says

South Africa opposition leader Julius Malema has announced that the ongoing protests in the country will end at midnight. While thanking South Africans for coming out in large numbers to join the ‘National Shutdown’ protests, the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party leader said the protests have been a success contrary to claims that people did not turn out as anticipated. “Thank you very much the people of South Africa and EFF ground forces for a peaceful yet vibrant EFF National Shutdown. It's just the beginning; now, let's go out and join the picket lines. They said it was a normal day, but you could see who the deceivers were. You proved to the doomsayers once more that we remain the only discipline force or the left. National Shutdown will end at midnight,” he wrote in twe...

4 Dead After Cessna Plane Crash On Philippine Volcano

24Feb

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4 Dead After Cessna Plane Crash On Philippine Volcano

All four people aboard a light aircraft that crashed in the Philippines at the weekend have been confirmed dead, authorities in the Southeast Asian country said Thursday, following a treacherous search mission atop a restive volcano. The bodies of pilot Rufino James Crisostomo Jr., crew member Joel Martin, and Australian technical consultants Simon Chipperfield and Karthi Santhanam, have been found on Mount Mayon volcano and a team was working to retrieve them, CNN affiliate CNN Philippines reported, citing Camalig Mayor Carlos Irwin Baldo. All four men were employees of Energy Development Corp., a Manila-based geothermal firm, according to Richard Tantoco, its president and chief operating officer. The six-seater Cessna 340 aircraft was bound for the capital Manila when it l...