Fed up with Putin foot-dragging on Ukraine war ceasefire US readies Russia sanctions for Trump to okay
The US National Security Council “is trying to coordinate some set of more punitive actions against Russia,” said the source familiar with the issue. “This will have to be signed off by Trump.”
Reports: Cybercriminals fleeced record-breaking Americans and businesses, Trump’s defence minister was a statistic
Pete Hegseth got a second internet line installed that connected directly to the public internet rather than through the Pentagon’s secured connection, according to sources.
President Ruto says Kenya keen to learn from ‘China’s remarkable journey of transformation’ day after blistering attacks on US President Trump, UN
President William Ruto, an evangelical Christian from a modest background, was elected on promises to help Kenya’s poor in a country struggling with debt. Earlier in his presidency, Ruto favoured the West and the United States over China. But as US President Donald Trump pulls back from engagement with Africa and slaps tariffs on trade partners, Ruto is making overtures to Beijing.
Farmers in Murang’a County in central Kenya to tap into expanding avocado, tea and coffee markets in China, USA
Murang’a County has an avocado farmers’ association that brings farmers together while the tea sector is managed by tea factories that contract KTDA as their management agency and the coffee sector is led through coffee co-operative societies.
Americans now admit no ‘natural’ or human origin of Covid, confirms evidence virus leaked from Wuhan lab
The Trump administration last week launched a revamped version of the government’s official Covid-19 website. The site is now dedicated exclusively to detailing evidence of the “true origins” of Covid-19” which the White House says escaped from a lab in Wuhan, China.
Divine message: Catholic cleric blasts Kenya president’s reckless borrowing, misuse of loans
The cleric further termed human organ trafficking as unacceptable saying a person can donate their organ upon demise through a will to be used by patients who want it.
China strikes back with 84 per cent tariffs as escalating trade war with America hits markets
China told the World Trade Organization that the United States’ decision to impose what it has called reciprocal tariffs on Beijing threatens to further destabilise global trade.
Kenya, 37 African countries in quandary over ties with US as China bullies Africa to exit US-allied group
Founded in 2020, the group has coordinated sanctions on China over rights abuses in Xinjiang and Hong Kong and rallied support for Taiwan, a self-ruled democratic island Beijing claims as its territory.
Entirely man-made: Former British PM Minister Boris Johnson now admits Covid leaked from lab
Quoting the report, Campbell said, “Since the select committee commenced its work in February 2023, more and more senior intelligence officials, politicians, science editors and scientists increasingly have endorsed the hypothesis that Covid-19 emerged as the result of a laboratory or research-related accident.”
World apprehensive as some states in US push for digital ID adoption, fears of ‘surveillance-based technocracy’ rise
Several media reports have presented May 7 as a deadline for people to get a REAL ID-compliant driver’s licence if they intend to travel domestically by air on or after that date. For instance, Washington, DC-based radio station WTOP reported that “time is running out” for people to get a REAL ID-compliant ID card to travel domestically.
