Ukrainian national Wectabe Shestavetskyi (left) and German Zerbin Sascha Marius Waldermar appear before a Shanzu court on January 25, 2019. They have been accused of forcefully undressing a Kenyan woman and taking nude photos and videos. Two foreigners have been charged with stripping a Kenyan woman naked and taking nude photos and videos against her

Photo (AP) A former prison guard trainee who recently moved to Florida from Indiana killed five people during a standoff at a small town bank before surrendering to a SWAT team that stormed the building, police said. Investigators said Zephen Xaver, 21, called police from inside the SunTrust Bank branch Wednesday to report that he

China faced a significant drop in births last year despite the lifting of its one-child policy in 2016, official data showed Monday. The National Bureau of Statistics published the population growth rate for 2018. Data showed that population growth, birth rate and labour participation rate slowed as the elderly population rose. According to Bureau’s data,

Photo (AP) Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido declared himself interim president in a defiant speech Wednesday before masses of anti-government demonstrators who took to the streets to demand President Nicolas Maduro’s removal. The bold challenge to Maduro’s rule immediately drew recognition from the Trump administration, which called on Maduro to resign and said it would

Components of SSC-8/9M729 cruise missile system are on display during a news briefing, organized by Russian defence and foreign ministries, at Patriot Expocentre near Moscow, Russia January 23, 2019. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov Russia showed foreign military attaches on Wednesday a new cruise missile that the United States says breaches a landmark arms control pact, billing it

Ford Kenya leader Moses Wetang’ula has reiterated his call for Kenyan Defence Forces troops to be recalled from Somalia. Addressing the press in his office on Tuesday, Wetang’ula said Kenya’s mission was stabilising Somalia through the creation of Juba land buffer zone, which was contested by both state and non-state actors. The Bungoma Senator was

President Uhuru Kenyatta addresses senior security officers at State House, Mombasa on January 22, 2019. President Uhuru Kenyatta on Tuesday ordered all Kenyans to be registered digitally and given Huduma identification numbers. Speaking at State House, Mombasa during a meeting with police commanders, regional coordinators and county commissioners, President Kenyatta said the database will also

Photo (Reuters) A Taliban attack in central Afghanistan on Monday killed scores of security personnel, officials said, with some estimates putting the death toll at more than 100, amid government silence about one of the most deadly insurgent attacks in months. Attackers rammed a captured military Humvee packed with explosives into a training center of

Hundreds of people protested in Sudan’s city of Omdurman on Monday, chanting “the people want the fall of the regime”, witnesses said, after the family of a man shot at an anti-government protest last week said he had died of his wounds. Sudan has been shaken by near-daily demonstrations for over a month. They were

France’s data privacy watchdog has fined Google 50 million euros ($57 million), the first penalty for a U.S. tech giant under new European data privacy rules that took effect last year. The National Data Protection Commission said Monday it fined the U.S. internet giant for “lack of transparency, inadequate information and lack of valid consent”