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Golfers To Battle For Johnnie Walker Golf Series In Nanyuki

7Apr

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Golfers To Battle For Johnnie Walker Golf Series In Nanyuki

Johnnie Walker Golf Series now shifts to Nanyuki Sports Club this Saturday for the fourteenth edition of the countrywide series. The event has attracted over 100 golfers who will play in the competition’s four-ball, stableford format at the par 72 golf course, with the first tee-off set for 06:30 am. The golfers will aim to make the cut for the series’ semi-finals dubbed the Eagles’ Round to be played at Muthaiga Golf Club in May. This will then be followed by the Grand Finale where the overall winners will be awarded a fully paid trip to the iconic Gleneagles Golf Course in Scotland. The event follows the Muthaiga Golf Club leg played this past weekend where an all-female team of June Waweru, Mercy Wambugu, Susan Mwangi, and Rose Koome claimed the overall prize having sco...

Israel Raids Refugee Camp , 2 Palestinians Killed In Gun Battle

1Apr

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Israel Raids Refugee Camp , 2 Palestinians Killed In Gun Battle

Israeli forces raided a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank early Thursday, setting off a gun battle in which two Palestinians were killed and 15 were wounded, the Palestinian Health Ministry said. In a separate incident, a Palestinian stabbed a 28-year-old Israeli man on a bus in the West Bank before being killed by a bystander, the Israeli military said. The Magen David Adom emergency service said the stabbing victim was treated and taken to a hospital. Videos circulated online showed smoke rising from the center of the Jenin refugee camp as gunfire echoed in the background. Others appeared to show Israeli soldiers and Palestinian gunmen moving through the narrow streets. The raid came two days after a Palestinian from a village near Jenin shot and killed five people in ...

Plane Carrying 133 Crashes In China, Casualties Unknown

21Mar

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Plane Carrying 133 Crashes In China, Casualties Unknown

A China Eastern passenger jet carrying 133 people has crashed in southwest China with an unknown number of casualties, state broadcaster CCTV reported Monday. The Boeing 737 plane crashed in the rural countryside near Wuzhou city, Guangxi region and "caused a mountain fire", CCTV said, adding that rescue teams were dispatched to the scene. The report added that rescue teams were dispatched to the scene. CCTV said a "China Eastern Airlines Boeing 737 plane carrying 133 people has crashed in Teng county, Wuzhou, Guangxi, and caused a mountain fire." Local media reported that China Eastern flight MU5735 had not arrived at its scheduled destination in Guangzhou after it took off from the city of Kunming shortly after 1:00 pm (0500 GMT) Monday, citing airport staff. There wa...

Russia Warns United States Not to meddle

18Mar

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Russia Warns United States Not to meddle

Russia warned the United States on Thursday that Moscow had the might to put the world's pre-eminent superpower in its place and accused the West of stoking a wild Russophobic plot to tear Russia apart. Dmitry Medvedev, who served as president from 2008 to 2012 and is now deputy secretary of Russia's Security Council, said the United States had stoked "disgusting" Russophobia in an attempt to force Russia to its knees. "It will not work, Russia has the might to put all of our brash enemies in their place," Medvedev said. resident Vladimir Putin says that what he calls the special military operation in Ukraine was necessary because the United States was using Ukraine to threaten Russia and Russia had to defend against the "genocide" of Russian-speaking people by Ukraine. Uk...

Ukraine now using Clearview AI’s facial recognition

14Mar

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Ukraine now using Clearview AI’s facial recognition

Ukraine is receiving free access to Clearview AI’s powerful search engine for faces, letting authorities potentially vet people of interest at checkpoints, among other uses, added Lee Wolosky, an adviser to Clearview and former diplomat under U.S. presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden. The plans started forming after Russia invaded Ukraine and Clearview Chief Executive Hoan Ton-That sent a letter to Kyiv offering assistance, Clearview said it had not offered the technology to Russia, which calls its actions in Ukraine a "special operation." Ukraine's Ministry of Defense did not reply to requests for comment. Previously, a spokesperson for Ukraine's Ministry of Digital Transformation said it was considering offers from U.S.-based artificial intelligence companies like Clearvie...

5 Family Members Dead in Murder-Suicide Shooting in Sacramento Carlifornia

1Mar

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5 Family Members Dead in Murder-Suicide Shooting in Sacramento Carlifornia

Five people are dead, including three children, after an apparent murder-suicide shooting at a church in Sacramento, California. A father walked into a church in the Arden-Arcade neighborhood and shot three of his kids -- all under the age of 15 -- before turning the gun on himself, Sgt. Rod Grassman with the Sacramento County Sheriff's Office said at a press conference. The fifth person found dead was identified as the wife of the shooter, Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District Capt. Parker Wilbourn told CNN. There were other people in The Church in Sacramento at the time of the shooting but none were involved, Wilbourn said. Most of the others were employees or congregates, he said, and no one else at the scene required medical transport. It is not known at this time if a...

Ukrainian delegation arrives for talks at the Ukraine-Belarus border

28Feb

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Ukrainian delegation arrives for talks at the Ukraine-Belarus border

Ukrainian officials have arrived for talks with Russia at the Ukraine-Belarus border, Zelenskyy’s office said in a statement. The delegation from Kyiv includes Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov and presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak among others, the statement said. The key issue of the talks is an immediate ceasefire and the withdrawal of troops from Ukraine,” it added. The negotiations are expected to get under way imminently. hey are set to take place on the Ukraine-Belarus border in a place called Pripyat … the so-called ghost town at the centre of the exclusion zone close to the Chernobyl reactor that was abandoned at the time of the disaster there in 1986,” he added. Apparently, that is the potentially rather eerie setting for these talks, but it is not clear ...

Vladimir Putin orders military operations in Ukraine

24Feb

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Vladimir Putin orders military operations in Ukraine

Russian President Vladimir Putin authorised a military operation in eastern Ukraine on Thursday in what appeared to be the start of war in Europe over Russia's demands for an end to NATO's eastward expansion. Shortly after Putin spoke in a special televised address on Russian state TV, explosions could be heard in the pre-dawn quiet of the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv. Gunfire rattled near the capital's main airport, the Interfax news agency said. Explosions also rocked the breakaway eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk and civilian aircraft were warned away as the United States said a major attack by Russia on its neighbour was imminent. Putin said he had authorised a special military operation in breakaway areas of eastern Ukraine and clashes between Russian and Ukrainian forces ...

23Feb

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Burkina Faso gold mine blast kills 60

About 60 people have died after an explosion at a makeshift gold mine in a village in south-west Burkina Faso, local officials say. The blast happened in a market at the gold-mining site when dynamite stored there caught fire, witnesses said. "There were bodies strewn everywhere. It was an explosion that managed to uproot trees and bring down houses," a judicial source told Reuters. Dozens of injured people have been evacuated to the nearest hospital. It is thought women and children are among the casualties, the AFP news agency reports. An investigation was opened into Monday's incident, after the regional prosecutor visited the scene near the town of Gaoua. One person has been arrested, and is being held for questioning. Burkina Faso is one of Africa's biggest g...

Florida woman accused of stabbing her husband more than 140 times charged with murder

21Feb

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Florida woman accused of stabbing her husband more than 140 times charged with murder

A Florida woman accused of stabbing her husband more than 140 times has been charged with murder. Joan Burke, 61, appeared before a Palm Beach County judge on Sunday via video conference and was charged with first-degree murder. Burke allegedly attacked her husband inside the kitchen of their home in Palm Springs, Florida on February 11. According to CNN, an incident report stated that Palm Springs police officers responded to Burke's home on the evening of February 11 after receiving a call from a man who identified himself as the son of the suspect. CNN reported that the caller said he had arrived home from work and discovered the body of his stepfather, Melvin Weller, 62, lying on the kitchen floor. Burke is said to have been in the house when her son called 911...