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Tear gas has been used to break up anti-government protests in Kenya following violent clashes over now abandoned tax rises.Footage showed riot police on the streets of the capital, Nairobi, with clouds of tear gas billowing along a main road. Kenyan television stations have also been showing peaceful protests, with people marching with palm fronds in Mombasa and Kisumu.The protesters have rejected appeals from President William Ruto for talks, even after he abandoned proposed tax rises.Dozens have been killed in clashes since 18 June – most of them shot by officers last week when protesters attempted to storm parliament to…

It can’t have been an easy meeting for Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskyy and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Tuesday, but both leaders mustered a smile as they shook hands for the cameras. “I asked the Ukrainian president to think about whether we could reverse the order, to speed up peace talks by making a cease-fire first,” Orban, a strident nationalist, said in a brief press statement alongside Zelenskyy in Kyiv during his first visit to the Ukrainian capital since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. “A cease-fire connected to a deadline would give a chance to speed up…

Australian police are searching for a 12-year-old child who was reportedly attacked by a crocodile while swimming.The alert was raised on Tuesday night in Palumpa, a remote Northern Territory town about seven hours drive from Darwin.Police said the child was last seen swimming in a creek and that “initial reports stated the child had been attacked by a crocodile”.A search involving officers and locals has been launched.”Local officers are on scene and our thoughts are with the family and the community,” said senior sergeant Erica Gibson.”Officers are currently searching a large section of the creek via boat and we thank…

A woman who pleaded for the release of her daughter held hostage by Hamas has died from brain cancer less than a month after she was rescued.Noa Argamani was kidnapped from the Nova music festival in October and video of her being taken away on a motorbike made headlines around the world.Her mother, Liora, 61, said she wanted to see her only child again before she died. Image: The image of Noa being kidnapped became one of the most recognisable of 7 October Image: Liora Argamani with family about six weeks after her daughter was kidnapped. Pic: Reuters She finally…

US President Joe Biden has blamed his poor performance at last week’s debate with Donald Trump on exhaustion from international travel. The 81-year-old president faced calls to step aside after he delivered rambling answers in a raspy voice and appeared to lose his train of thought at times. “The fact is that you know, I wasn’t very smart. I decided to travel around the world a couple times, going through around 100 time zones … before … the debate. Didn’t listen to my staff and came back and nearly fell asleep on stage,” Biden said at a fundraiser on Tuesday. “That’s no excuse…

Hurricane Beryl has battered islands in the eastern Caribbean, killing at least six people and is now barrelling towards Jamaica.Although it’s weakened to a category four storm, a hurricane warning is still in place for Jamaica, Grand Cayman, Little Cayman, Cayman Brac and Haiti’s southern coast. Beryl is the earliest storm on record to hit the Caribbean with such strength.But why did it form so early in the year and why has it been so intense?Climate change leads to warmer oceans Warmer oceans are likely to be behind the unusually early formation and rapid intensification of the storm.The water in…

Skip next section Live coverage ending as Scholz heads back to Berlin07/02/2024July 2, 2024Live coverage ending as Scholz heads back to BerlinGerman Chancellor Olaf Scholz thanked Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk for the constructive intergovernmental consultations.  “We want a strong Polish voice in Europe, because the security of our countries is inextricably linked. We stand up for this, as neighbors, as NATO allies and as EU partners,” he wrote on X, formerly Twitter, in German and Polish. On Wednesday, Scholz is scheduled to appear before the Bundestag for a question and answer session. Scholz will begin with a statement for which…

The School of Management and Business (HSB) at the Vietnam National University in Hanoi believes the connection between height and success is so significant that people who are supposedly “too short” should no longer be allowed to study.   The school announced that female students must be at least 1.58 meters tall and male students at least 1.65 meters to be considered for admission this year. It added that exceptions could be allowed in some cases. After the Vietnamese online newspaper Tuoi Tre first reported on this height criterion for admissions, it sparked heated debates on social media. On June 6, the…

Hurricane Beryl is hurtling towards Jamaica as a powerful category four storm, after killing at least six people in the southeast Caribbean.The destructive weather pattern was forecast to start losing intensity on Tuesday and was downgraded from a category five hurricane – the most powerful type. But it will still be near major hurricane strength when it passes near or over Jamaica early on Wednesday, near the Cayman Islands on Thursday, and into Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula on Friday, according to the National Hurricane Centre. Image: Damage to businesses in Soufriere, St Lucia. Pic: Reuters Image: A flooded road in Bridgetown,…

A police officer in Germany lost his job after stealing about 180 kilograms of cheddar cheese from an overturned truck following an accident. The Rhineland-Palatinate Higher Administrative Court on Tuesday rejected the man’s appeal, meaning the decision to dismiss him stands. What was the policeman charged with? The officer worked for the highway patrol and was assigned to secure the scene of an accident, the court said. “He drove a police minibus close to the damaged truck, opened the sliding side door of the police bus and asked the employee of a salvage company working there to hand him several undamaged…