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Liz Truss said on Thursday she would resign as British prime minister just six weeks after she was appointed. A leadership election will be completed within the next week to replace Truss, who is the shortest-serving prime minister in British history. George Canning previously held the record, serving 119 days in 1827 when he died. 1922 Committee […]
The line of succession to the throne changes after the death of Queen Elizabeth II, as her eldest son and heir, Charles, Prince of Wales, becomes king. The list, by some counts, runs into the thousands, including ordinary people and nobility from across Europe. But the immediate line of succession is for descendants of the […]
Queen Elizabeth II, the longest-serving monarch in British history died on Thursday at the age of 96. Elizabeth II has served as Britain’s monarch for the better part of seven decades but there have been longstanding concerns in regard to her overall health ever since she contracted COVID-19 earlier this year. In any case, the British government […]
Kenya has rescued more citizens trapped in Myanmar after falling victim to an unscrupulous ‘job’ cartel with links in Nairobi. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said seven Kenyans were rescued from Myanmar over the weekend and taken to Thailand ahead of their repatriation home. Four others, meanwhile, were still held at the Chinese factories where […]
Liz Truss was on Monday announced as the UK’s next prime minister, after winning an internal leadership contest of the ruling Conservative party. The foreign secretary beat her rival, former finance minister Rishi Sunak, by 81,326 votes to 60,399, after a summer-long internal contest sparked by Boris Johnson’s resignation in July. Truss becomesthe UK’s third […]
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved the release of a Ksh.28 billion ($235.6 million) loan to Kenya. The new disbursement represents the third tranche of a 38-month budget support program, inked in April last year and which seeks to address Kenya’s debt vulnerabilities. The approval takes cumulative issuances under the three year program to […]
Six Kenyans are being held in custody pending deportation after illegally entering Zimbabwe from South Africa. Musa Abdullahi Hussein (44), Mohamed Abdille (43), Ali Mohamed Abdi (37), Hussein Harun Bullo (34), Muhamed Abdirahman Issack (34) and Ibrahimbashir Durow (34) were arrested on May 27 while entering Zimbabwe from South Africa, according to reports. They appeared […]
Fourteen miners are trapped in a coal mine in northern Colombia after an underground explosion, the mayor of the town said on Tuesday. A miner who was above ground at the time was injured by the explosion Monday afternoon, sustaining “burns all over his body,” according to mayor Manuel Pradilla of Zulia, near the Venezuelan […]
According to the army, Nepali rescuers located the crash site of a missing passenger jet on Monday, which had 22 passengers aboard. “There has been a discovery of the plane’s wreckage and a photograph has been released. In order to gather further information, other teams are now on route to the site,” Spokesman for the […]
