Assassination scare as gunman is arrested at Democratic presidential aspirant Robert F. Kennedy Jr event
Kennedy thanked his private security detail in a tweet: Kennedy’s father, US Sen Robert F. Kennedy, was assassinated on June 5, 1968, at the Ambassador Hotel, less than two miles east of the Wilshire Ebell Theatre.
Kenya terms KDF joint patrols with South African army in eastern DR Congo ‘significant development’
What the Kenya’s Ministry of Defence termed “a significant development” saw soldiers from the East African country part of a joint patrol with colleagues in arms from South Africa on the Beni-Eringeti main supply route (MSR) in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The Congolese component of the Kenyan patrol...
Known to shoot corrupt state officials, missing China’s defence minister stokes fears of execution
In the Chinese system, the Minister for National Defence is seen as significantly less powerful than the US defence secretary and many international equivalents. The position is essentially a diplomatic and ceremonial role without a direct command function.
Fountain of reason: Revisiting Uganda’s Age of Enlightenment when it was revered as the Pearl of Africa
Public intellectuals have long used and engaged with the arts to communicate ideas about power, identity and society. Public intellectuals have long used and engaged with the arts to communicate ideas about power, identity and society.
Proof Pope Pius XII had detailed information from German Jesuit about Nazi crimes revealed
The letter from the priest, the Rev Lothar Koenig, to Pius’ secretary, a fellow German Jesuit named the Rev Robert Leiber, is dated December 14, 1942. Written in German, the letter addresses Leiber as “Dear friend,” and goes on to report that the Nazis were killing up to 6,000 Jews and Poles daily from Rava Ruska, a town in pre-war Poland that is today located in Ukraine, and transporting them to the Belzec death camp.
Comedian Russell Brand denies he sexually assaulted women as reported in UK news outlets
Brand also suggested that the reports were part of a coordinated attack designed to discredit him because of his views. Brand has been criticised for expressing scepticism about Covid-19 vaccines and interviewing contentious podcasters like Joe Rogan.
In admitting he ignored his lawyers, Trump may have undermined his defence of 2020 election cases
Trump has continued to make false claims that the election was stolen from him through widespread voting fraud. Asked why he dismissed the views of lawyers in the White House and his campaign that he had lost the election, Trump responded: “Because I didn’t respect them.”
Kinshasa raises alarm yet again over Rwandan aggression as 2.3m people uprooted from homes
UN experts have also accused Rwanda of supporting the rebel force, and in July, the EU condemned the country’s military presence in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Collective punishment: General sanctions are worsening humanitarian crisis in post-coup Niger
The World Food Programme (WFP) has estimated that 7.3 million people may be driven from moderate to severe food insecurity as a result of the latest post-coup restrictions, which hit as the country was in its traditional “lean season” between harvests.
5th Circuit Court pause on White House contact with social media expected to take censorship case to US Supreme Court
Kim Mack Rosenberg, acting general counsel for Children’s Health Defense (CHD) told The Defender it was not surprising that Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar asked the Supreme Court to stay the injunction, nor that the court issued a brief administrative stay, as the 5th Circuit had also done in July.
