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Lampard Urges Chelsea To Emulate 2012 Shock Run To Euro Glory

11Apr

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Sports

Lampard Urges Chelsea To Emulate 2012 Shock Run To Euro Glory

Frank Lampard has urged Chelsea to ignore the turmoil enveloping his struggling side as he invoked the memory of the Blues' incredible run to Champions League glory in 2012. Lampard is back in charge of Chelsea until the end of the season after replacing the sacked Graham Potter last week. After watching Chelsea crash to a lacklustre 1-0 defeat at Wolves in his first game in charge on Saturday, Lampard takes them to Real Madrid for a daunting Champions League quarter-final first leg on Wednesday. Chelsea are languishing in 11th place in the Premier League after a dismal campaign that included Thomas Tuchel being sacked in September and Potter lasting only seven months before his dismissal. The west Londoners have managed to progress to the last eight in Europe despite thei...

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

11Apr

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International news

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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International news

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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International news

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...

8Apr

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New Olympic race walking event revealed

World Athletics and the International Olympic Committee have agreed on the format for the new race walking team event that will make its debut at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. The Marathon Race Walk Mixed Relay will feature 25 teams, each comprising one male and one female athlete, who will complete the marathon distance (42.195km) in four legs of approximately equal distance.null Each athlete will complete two legs of just over 10km each, alternating male, female, male, and female. The marathon distance was selected because of its existing popularity in athletics and its link to the traditions of the Olympic Games. The event will be held on the same course as the individual race walking events, at the foot of the Eiffel Tower in central Paris and will be completed in abou...

Seven People Killed, 3 Others In Critical Condition After Lorry Crashes In Migori

8Apr

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local news

Seven People Killed, 3 Others In Critical Condition After Lorry Crashes In Migori

Seven people have been killed including the driver of an ill-fated lorry that was transporting rice to the border town of Isebania before developing brake failure and crashing in Migori. The driver lost control of the lorry on the Migori – Isebania road and, according to eye witnesses, started hooting at Chamkombe area signalling brake failure before knocking several people in the busy town, leaving three in critical condition. Witnesses told Citizen Digital that two people were knocked down at River Migori, with efforts to save them still proving futile as the river is currently inaccessible. They further blamed the Migori County government over what they termed as poor management of parking space within the town, saying the road is narrow and needs a proper structure to cur...

NEMA Raids Kilimani, Closes Down Oyster Bay in New Crackdown

7Apr

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Business

NEMA Raids Kilimani, Closes Down Oyster Bay in New Crackdown

The National Environmental Management Authority (NEMA) on Thursday, April 6, closed down Oyster Bay restaurant in Nairobi Kilimani estate following complaints from residents. In a notice, NEMA indicated that the facility had interfered with residents' comfort, health and safety by playing loud music contrary to the guidelines prescribed by the authority "There have been numerous complaints of noise pollution from the residents of Kilimani, where you are located, caused by extremely loud music from your facility that interferes with their comfort, repose health and safety. Further, the authority accused the facility's owner of commencing operations without submitting an Environmental Impact Assessment report project. It alleged that it operated without a required licence a...

Crisis Looms In Counties As Governors Say Treasury Yet To Disburse Funds For Four Months

7Apr

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local news

Crisis Looms In Counties As Governors Say Treasury Yet To Disburse Funds For Four Months

Operations in a majority of counties have been paralysed following the delayed disbursement of funds from the National Treasury for four consecutive months. According to Kakamega Governor Fernandes Barasa, who appeared before the Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee on Thursday, Treasury owes county governments about Ksh.96 billion arrears accrued from January this year. Governors have decried the dire situation saying they’re staring at the possibility of strikes by county staff over delayed salaries. The financial crisis across all counties continues to deepen with the devolved units now entering the fourth month without their monthly disbursement from the exchequer. This is the longest time the devolved units have gone without receiving cash from the National Trea...

Facebook Owner Meta Releases AI Model That Can Identify Items Within Images

6Apr

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Technology

Facebook Owner Meta Releases AI Model That Can Identify Items Within Images

Facebook owner Meta published an artificial intelligence model on Wednesday that can pick out individual objects from within an image, along with a dataset of image annotations that it said was the largest ever of its kind. The company's research division said in a blog post that its Segment Anything Model, or SAM, could identify objects in images and videos even in cases where it had not encountered those items in its training. Using SAM, objects can be selected by clicking on them or writing text prompts. In one demonstration, writing the word "cat" prompted the tool to draw boxes around each of several cats in a photo. Meta has teased several features that deploy the type of generative AI popularized by ChatGPT, which creates brand-new content instead of simply identifying...

KU Student Found Dead Days After Date With Mystery Lover

5Apr

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local news

KU Student Found Dead Days After Date With Mystery Lover

A female student from Kenyatta University, June Jerop, pursuing a master's degree, was found dead on Monday, March 20, hours after leaving for a date with a mystery lover. According to her family and friends, the girl's phone went off when she left the institution at around 5 pm. "Her friends told us she informed them that she was going to meet a male friend, but did not disclose much more about it," Jerop's sister lamented. She was reportedly found dumped along the road in Nairobi before police transferred her body to the City Mortuary. According to the police, her body was found swollen and blood-stained, raising questions about whether she was caught in the nationwide demonstrations or was murdered. After several attempts to call her at work and s...