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Paul Mackenzie receives 200-year prison sentence in Kenya over mass child deaths

A Kenyan cult leader has been sentenced to 200 years in prison for the murder of 191 people, all but one of them children, in a campaign of abuse and forced fasting. Paul Mackenzie, founder of the Good News International Church, was sentenced Friday alongside more than two dozen others at the Mombasa High Court. … The post Kenyan cult leader sentenced to 200 years in prison over the deaths of 190 children appeared first on Egypt Independent.

World· Developing

Ahmed Haroun detained by Sudan military despite alliance in ongoing civil war

Nov 8 (Reuters) - Sudan's army has detained a former senior Islamist official from ousted strongman Omar al-Bashir's era who is wanted by the International Criminal Court, officials from his party said. Ahmed Haroun, who chairs Sudan's former ruling National Congress Party, has been hiding for years and is wanted by the International Criminal Court over alleged war crimes and genocide in the Darfur region in the early 2000s. He has dismissed the charges as political.

World· Developing

France confirms European nations will attend Ukraine negotiations in Abu Dhabi

PARIS, Nov 8 (Reuters) - Europeans will participate in talks on Ukraine in Abu Dhabi next week, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said on Sunday. "The Europeans will be well represented; France will be in Abu Dhabi to take part in these discussions," Barrot told French radio station RTL in an interview. "I can’t tell you yet who will be representing France on this occasion, but France will certainly be there," he added.

AI· Developing

US midterm voters reject rapid datacentre expansion across multiple states

Election results appear to have turbo-charged an already growing social, political and financial market rethink about AI ‘AI clog’: UK battles onslaught of chatbot-generated complaints Editorial: the AI backlash – Silicon Valley’s political power is cracking Last week’s midterms may not have cowed Donald Trump, but they should be a wake-up call for the grinning tech broligarchs who lined up at his inauguration two chaotic years ago. Clearly, the cost of living squeeze unleashed by Trump’s war in Iran was a big driver of the Democrat wave. But AI was also on the ballot – in many places, literally. Continue reading...

Politics· Developing

Congressional Democrats prepare agenda on costs and oversight after midterm sweep

Midterms success gives party potent leverage over Trump – expect tough campaigns of investigating and lawmaking “Costs, chaos, corruption”: after almost two years spent relentlessly criticizing Donald Trump for failing to address those three, broad political concerns, Democrats won a monumental return to power in Tuesday’s midterm elections that will give them potent new leverage over the president. Now the question becomes: what will they do with it? Continue reading...

World· Verified

Riyadh Aramco office damaged by falling debris after missile interception

An administrative building belonging to state oil giant Saudi Aramco in Riyadh was damaged by falling debris following an attempted attack on Sunday, with no injuries or fatalities reported, the kingdom’s Energy Ministry said. A Reuters witness saw blown-out windows across several floors of the Aramco Tower, one of the tallest buildings in the capital’s King Abdullah Financial District. The incident, which the ministry said caused limited damage, came after the Saudi-led coalition said it...

World· Developing

US considers renewed Iran strikes as Gulf nations bolster regional defence pacts

Despite midterm election losses weakening Donald Trump politically, the threat of an escalated US-Iran war looms large. As regional mediation efforts struggle to bridge deep divides, Gulf nations are accelerating collective defence plans and infrastructure resilience in anticipation of renewed conflict.

Politics· Developing

Midterm voters reject Trump agenda as cost of living and Iran war drive defeats

President claimed to have ushered in a ‘golden age’ even as prices soared and war dragged on – and midterm voters did not buy his looking-glass narrative A new “golden age of America” is under way, Donald Trump repeatedly declared in his final pitch to voters before the US midterm elections. The war in Iran was not really a war, because “we’ve done very little fighting”, the US president stressed. The stock market had hit 88 all-time highs. “They’re saying,” he said, that on his watch the US has become “the hottest country anywhere in the world”. Continue reading...

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