NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya’s government on Tuesday began handing over to relatives the bodies of 429 members of a doomsday cult at the center of a legal case that has shocked the country. Exhumed bodies from a vast rural area in coastal Kenya have shown signs of starvation and strangulation. Cult leader Paul Mackenzie … Read more
“I can’t say for what purpose or what they would do there.” According to Fico, the war in Ukraine is not going as expected: “This [Paris] meeting is confirmation that the Ukraine strategy of the West has completely failed,” he said, without providing details. Speaking following a meeting of Slovakia’s security council and cabinet on … Read more
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin released a statement on Christmas night announcing US retaliatory strikes were made on terrorist group Kataib Hezbollah the same day. “Today, at President Biden’s direction, U.S. military forces conducted necessary and proportionate strikes on three facilities used by Kataib Hezbollah and affiliated groups in Iraq,” Austin said in the statement. “These … Read more
President Lazarus Chakwera announced austerity measures aimed at healing the economy. Malawi’s President Lazarus Chakwera has suspended all foreign trips by government officials, including himself. The move, announced in a nationally televised address on Wednesday night, was part of what he called tough measures to heal the Southern African nation’s economy. He also directed all … Read more