NAIROBI, Kenya Oct 23 – The Kenya Meteorological Department has warned of heavy rainfall, flash floods and strong winds in dozens of counties, with the heaviest downpours expected between October 26 and 28. Parts of Nairobi are among the areas expected to receive rain, alongside Mombasa, Kilifi, Kwale, Garissa, Wajir, Mandera, Kisumu, Nakuru, Kiambu, Machakos, Kajiado, Meru and Nyeri, among other counties.
NAIROBI, Kenya, Oct 23 — The inaugural Trust Summit has adopted a 29-point action plan proposing a global financing facility at the United Nations to help rebuild public confidence in institutions, alongside reforms aimed at making global governance more accountable, inclusive and responsive to citizens. The Nairobi Call to Action on Global Trust, adopted on Friday after three days of deliberations, also proposes a Coalition on Global Trust and a Nairobi Trust Council to drive implementation, with the summit’s organisers warning that rebuilding confidence will depend on measurable results…
After Brody called out the ‘death and misery’ in Palestine, the Netflix hit’s Jewish creator said they don’t see eye to eye The creator of the hit Netflix comedy Nobody Wants This has responded to star Adam Brody’s recent support of Palestine amid the Israel-Gaza war. “Everyone is entitled to a different opinion,” Erin Foster said in an interview with the Not Skinny Not Fat podcast when asked about Brody calling for a free Palestine.
Russian strikes against ships attempting to export Ukrainian grain and cargo through the western Black Sea have sharply increased this month.
Repeated Ukrainian drone attacks are increasingly disrupting operations at Moscow's airports. The pounding is part of Ukraine's plan to shut down Russia's airpace.
Israel’s prime minister gives order after military says it thwarted ‘terror attack’ by two armed Palestinians Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered the army to prepare for a “very extensive” operation in the occupied West Bank after two Israeli soldiers and two Palestinians were killed in an exchange of fire near a checkpoint in Hebron. The Israeli military said it had thwarted a “terror attack” by two armed Palestinians from Hebron, amid heightened tensions before next week’s election.
Campaigners plan mass Halloween action before Supreme Court hearing on challenge to group's 'terrorist' proscription.
Russia’s territorial gains this year are effectively nil as it heads into trilateral talks with Ukraine, US.
The US-brokered talks are the first planned talks since negotiations stopped earlier this year.
Ukraine to team up with Finnish firms as Starshield problems, started amid Trump-Zelenskyy jibes, continue.
Brent crude rises to $114.72 a barrel after Tehran threatens retaliatory attacks on Gulf oil and tech facilities Business live – latest updates Oil has hit its highest level in more than five months as fears of fresh escalation in the Middle East conflict grip the energy markets. Brent crude, the international benchmark for oil, rose by 1% on Friday morning to $114.72 a barrel – its highest level since May.
The US president is portraying Zelenskyy as the villain as he strives for Russia’s approval If Donald Trump could, he would fly to Munich to sign away Ukraine to Vladimir Putin, and return to wave the document as “peace in our time”, hoping to claim at least the second Fifa peace prize. Whatever the complicated motives of Neville Chamberlain, his well-grounded fear after the carnage of a world war of another apocalypse and his wishful thinking that Hitler would be satiated after carving up Czechoslovakia, Chamberlain had not sent his son-in-law and former golf partner and real estate partner…
Officials say Home Minister Ramesh Chennithala sanctioned inquiry into award of ₹12-crore contract to private firm to construct modular toilets allegedly without inviting open tenders and thereby bypassing competitive bidding
Latest smartphones are finding their way into Iran despite sanctions and trade restrictions, but many can't afford them.
Issues remain with the network used by the Ukrainian military, sources say, after repeated denials of a deliberate slowdown.
France’s main student union, UNEF, has called for demonstrations on Saturday and the Yellow Vest movement also filed plans to march through central Paris. On top of the protest bans and restrictions in place, the government says they’ll deploy 20% more police onto the streets this weekend Macron held a Security Council meeting on Thursday with senior ministers; he’s chairing a Defence Council meeting this morning discussing other measures with law enforcement This afternoon the French president is also due to host student protest leaders for the first time for negotiations at the Elysee.
German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul is joining counterparts in Turkey for discussions on a range of interlinked geopolitical crises. Back in Germany, the Bavarian CSU party begins its two-day conference in Munich.
Israeli forces reportedly shot dead a Syrian man with an intellectual disability and hearing problems, during a raid.
Israel has ordered its soldiers to prepare for a full closure of the West Bank following a deadly shooting in the occupied territory.
With emergency stocks at multidecade lows, analysts say the world may have only a month or two if Hormuz shuts again.
Al Jazeera interviews Fatih Birol in Berlin as the Iran war disrupts global energy supplies.
Officials will call on UK to ‘step up’ financial support at Brussels summit – with post-Brexit issues also on agenda EU leaders will press Andy Burnham at a summit in Brussels to contribute more to Ukraine’s defence effort in 2027. EU officials argue that the UK, Canada and Japan should do more to support Ukraine, but entreaties to these G7 countries for extra financial aid at recent international meetings have not been answered, Brussels says.
The former Scottish first minister writes of his in-laws’ plight and the tragedy of those who weren’t so lucky A week into Israel’s bombing of Gaza in 2023, which followed Hamas’s deadly terrorist attack on Israel, Scotland’s then first minister Humza Yousaf received a text from his mother-in-law, Elizabeth. Elizabeth, a retired nurse from Dundee, and her Palestinian husband, Maged, had been visiting family in Gaza and become trapped there when the bombing began.