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Beloved country star Dolly Parton was many things to her fans, including an actor, singer, philanthropist and entrepreneur. But after her death on Tuesday at the age of 80, some admirers are remembering her as something she never overtly claimed: feminist icon.
Read briefingDubai Police organised a series of training and awareness courses on traffic safety rules and guidelines, targeting security guards across 35 schools. The initiative comes as students and parents gear up for the new academic year beginning on Monday. Over 1,180 public and private schools across the UAE reopen their doors on August 31, welcoming more than 1.277 million students. The training familiarised participants with traffic signs and guidelines and covered traffic flow regulation during peak drop-off and pick-up hours around the school. Security guards training with the Dubai police also engaged in hands-on scenarios simulating real-life traffic accidents. In addition, they received guidance on ensuring students get on and off buses safely to prevent any risks, and on how to respond initially and professionally to traffic or security emergencies until the relevant authorities arrive. Back to school on MondaySchools have adopted phased return-to-school plans with shorter hours for younger pupils during the first week, with staggered pick-up and drop-off times for easier management. Several parents said they received emails from schools detailing the drop-off and pick-up timings and start dates for various grades. In good news for parents working in the UAE’s government sector, employees will be allowed to work flexible hours so they can take their children to and from schoo...
Read briefingQUSRA, West Bank, Aug 29 - Dozens of masked Israeli settler militants attacked homes surrounding the occupied West Bank village of Qusra on Saturday, the first major attack since a siege by settlers in the area earlier this month drew an international outcry.The settlers surrounded a Palestinian home, throwing stones while seven Palestinians were trapped inside, according to witnesses who spoke to Reuters.Saddam Oday, one of those trapped, said the Israeli military fired tear gas into the home and detained the residents inside while letting him go. He said the Israeli military had not detained any of the settlers and had allowed them to leave.The owner of the house, Luay Bayruti, said when the military arrived they handcuffed, blindfolded and beat those inside, before later releasing them.The Israeli military said in a statement that troops and border police forces had arrived on the scene to remove "rioters" and protect the residents inside the house.The military did not immediately respond to a request for comment on why they had reportedly fired tear gas at the house and detained and beaten the residents.In his first public statement on Qusra, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he condemned the violence in Qusra and blamed a "handful of rioters"."I strongly condemn the criminal acts of violence committed in the villages of Qusra and Jalud," said Netanyahu, referring to a separate incident in a neighbouring village.The United States had previously pressured Netanyahu to publicly condemn the militant settlers who had besieged Palestinians in their homes, U.S. and Israeli officials told Reuters around two weeks ago.The Israeli government has previously blamed a "fringe minority" for settler violence, a characterisation disputed by findings from rights groups.A U.N. inquiry in June found that Israeli authorities are directly involved in settler attacks that have killed, injured and displaced Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. The Israeli mission in Geneva rejected the report's findings.Bayruti said that after calling the Israeli military for help, he and six others were trapped inside the home for more than an hour as settlers threw stones.Bayruti showed a Reuters reporter his bandaged arm, which he said had been injured by a stone during the attack.Oday, a medic, said four of those trapped had suffered injuries due to the tear gas, and two had suffered injuries from the stones thrown by settlers.The attack occurred a few hundred yards away from three homes to which settlers laid siege this month, drawing international condemnation and a massive Israeli military deployment that residents say has kept them effectively trapped in their homes."They spotted the residents working on their house, which is still under construction and they started throwing rocks," said Loui Ridi, a Palestinian-American whose home was one of the three under siege this month. He said he watched Saturday's attack occur from his home.Ridi said he had seen near-daily encroachments of Israeli settlers into the area surrounding his home, despite the heavy Israeli military presence in the area.Rights groups say the increasing settler presence on the edge of Palestinian villages, like Qusra, is part of a wider effort by settlers to seize more land from Palestinians, further eating into territory where Palestinians aim to establish a state.Violence by Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank has increased, with some emboldened by the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has overseen a massive settlement expansion in the territory.U.N. bodies and most countries deem the settlements illegal under international law regarding military occupations. Israel rejects this, viewing the area as disputed rather than occupied. REUTERS
Read briefingBritish right-wing political commentator Milo Yiannopoulos has been detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and is awaiting deportation.Yiannopoulos, 41, a former editor of Breitbart News and onetime political aide to rapper Kanye West, appears to be held in Louisiana, according to ICE’s inmate registry.The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said he “was issued a final order of removal by an Immigration Judge on July 22, after failing to show up for his immigration hearing”, and will remain in custody pending deportation.The self-styled provocateur has called himself the “most fabulous supervillain on the internet”. His critics call him a purveyor of hate speech.Yiannopoulos, who grew up in Kent in the south of England, was arrested on 27 August after arriving at the airport in New Orleans.He flew into the US in May 2019 and “chose to overstay his welcome in violation of our nation’s laws”, said DHS. The DHS statement referred to him as “an illegal alien from the United Kingdom”. The BBC has asked the British embassy in Washington for comment. Yiannopoulos did not respond to the BBC’s request for comment.“Being in detention is a choice,” the DHS statement continued, calling on migrants who are in the US illegally to “self-deport now”.Yiannopoulos was an early supporter of Donald Trump during the 2016 election, headlining an event that year called Gays for Trump during the Republican National Convention.Yiannopoulos has become a critic of Trump, but still voices support for the Republican president’s agenda. He posted in March this year on X that Trump “has lost his way, bought off by foreign interests”.Yiannopoulos has courted controversy with his comments on transgender people, Muslims, Black Lives Matter, feminists and gay people, even though he himself identified as gay. He now calls himself an “ex-gay”.In 2020, he assisted Kanye West in the rapper’s bid to become president. He also worked for Marjorie Taylor Greene, a former Republican congresswoman who fell out with Trump and became a fierce critic before resigning from office.He has written columns titled “Birth Control Makes Women Unattractive and Crazy” and “Would You Rather Your Child Had Feminism or Cancer?”He has also cheered on ICE raids, writing on X last year: “Total legal immunity for ICE agents when they’re on duty.”He posted in 2025: “We have got to deport millions and millions of people. Without that, nothing else matters.”Yiannopoulos also advocated “on the spot deportation for anyone who can’t prove they are in the US legally” on social media.Laura Loomer, a far-right commentator and Trump ally who has feuded with Yiannopoulos, took credit for his arrest by ICE.She posted on X on Friday night that his flight back to the UK had already departed.“This subversive foreign agent is already out of the United States and DHS tells me he’s NEVER allowed to come back to the United States ever again,” she said.In 2017, he was uninvited from speaking at CPAC, a US conservative conference that also hosted Trump, after footage emerged of Yiannopoulos appearing to condone paedophilia. He also later apologised and resigned from Breitbart.He denied the allegations, and said he had been speaking about his own experiences as a child.Yiannopoulos was once regularly linked with the alt-right, a disparate group that is outspoken against political correctness and feminism and which includes neo-Nazis and white supremacists.He has said he does not consider himself part of the alt-right, although he has called it “energising and exciting”.Email your news TIPS to Editor@Kahawatungu.com — this is our only official communication channel
Read briefingAfter six months of war, Iran’s leadership has coalesced around a hard core of military generals and clerics long entrenched in the ruling theocracy. They are ready for a potentially long confrontation with the US and determined to prevent any unrest at home. It’s a far cry from US President Donald Trump’s initial hopes of toppling the Islamic Republic and his subsequent claims that “regime change” had brought more compromising officials to the fore. In an analysis, FRANCE 24's Philip Turle said the war had so far cost around 1,100 US dollars for each US taxpayer.
Read briefingNearly 3,000 people remained missing on Saturday, while 682 deaths had been confirmed after flash floods and landslides hit the Nepal-Tibet border. Rescue operations remain risky as a lake formed upstream by the floods threatens to burst its banks. FRANCE 24's Shahzaib Wahlah reports.
Read briefingThe Rironi-Naivasha section of the Rironi-Nakuru-Mau Summit Highway is expected to have a new tarmac surface by December as construction advances into key stages. During a tree-planting exercise along the project corridor on Friday, August 28, officials from the China Road and Bridge Corporation (CRBC) and the Kenya National Highways Authority (KeNHA) provided an update on the works, with the contractor saying work remains on schedule to deliver the Rironi-Naivasha stretch within the year.“We are still on course to finish this stretch. For this year we will have a new tarmac road from Rironi to Naivasha,” he stated.A project official disclosed that construction is currently concentrated on earthworks and major structures, with overall progress standing at about 20 per cent. He explained that the early phase can appear slow because much of the work involves foundations and other activities that are less visible, but the pace is expected to increase once pavement construction and asphalt works begin over the next month. Motorists should begin seeing completed road sections as the project moves into the surfacing stage. “Once pavement and asphalt works begin, progress will pick up significantly, and motorists will start seeing completed sections. We expect pavement works to begin within the next month, and by December we should have made considerable progress,” he said.KeNHA officials said the most critical section from Rironi to Nakuru is expected to be usable by Madaraka Day next year, while the wider 233-kilometre Rironi-Nakuru-Mau Summit Highway project remains targeted for completion within 2027. The wider highway project aims to ease congestion, improve safety and restore travel times between Nairobi and destinations such as Nakuru, Eldoret and Kisumu to about four hours, from the current 8 to 10 hours.The upgraded road will also feature interchanges at major junctions to improve traffic flow along the busy corridor. Officials said most land acquisition, compensation and utility relocation have been completed, with remaining work focused on areas where construction can proceed with minimal disruption to existing buildings.Additionally, the contractor explained that the project will also incorporate solar power at facilities including the operations and maintenance centre, toll stations and some road slopes. On security, officials said the project will involve National Government Administration Officers (NGAOs) and local communities to help prevent vandalism and protect the infrastructure.
Read briefingSpanish military personnel arriving at Ceuta’s border with Morocco on Aug 15, following a mass crossing of migrants into the tiny Spanish territory the previous month.MADRID - Four Moroccan migrants in Spain’s enclave of Ceuta were arrested on Aug 29 for throwing stones at a patrol of Spanish soldiers, one of whom fell and injured himself while pursuing the assailants, a police spokesman told AFP.It was the second such incident to occur in recent days in the tiny territory located in North Africa, following the arrests on Aug 27 of 12 Moroccan migrants who threw stones at a Spanish military vehicle, injuring one of its four occupants.Ceuta remains a source of tension, politically and security-wise, for Spain since tens of thousands of migrants crossed over into it from Morocco on July 30 and 31, triggering alarm among Madrid’s EU partners.Most of those migrants left in subsequent days, but thousands remain in Ceuta, wandering the streets and sleeping on beaches of the territory whose population is 80,000.Ceuta residents protesting against the presence of the remaining migrants clashed with police on Aug 27, prompting Spain’s government to appeal for calm.Madrid is seeking ways to reduce the number of remaining migrants in Ceuta without breaching EU and international asylum and migration laws.Thousands of migrants remain in Ceuta since tens of thousands crossed into the Spanish enclave from Morocco on July 30 and 31, triggering alarm in the EU.The EU’s commissioner for migration, Magnus Brunner, said on X on Aug 29 that Spain had asked for help from the European Union’s border control agency Frontex, the police cooperation agency Europol and the EU Agency for Asylum.“We are already working on the request and will take a swift decision,” Brunner said, calling the situation in Ceuta “challenging”.“The priority remains to ensure the swift return of all those who remain illegally in Ceuta,” he said. AFPResidents arguing with police on Aug 28, near a demonstration against the presence of migrants in Spain’s north African enclave of Ceuta.
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Read briefingBeneficiaries of the Government’s Affordable Housing Programme (AHP) are reporting improved living conditions and greater security after moving from informal settlements into newly developed homes. For some residents, the housing programme has also eased the burden of monthly rent by allowing them to make manageable payments towards home ownership, even when their incomes are irregular. […]
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Read briefingNearly 4,500 families in Nairobi’s Mukuru settlement have been moved into decent and affordable homes under the Government’s Affordable Housing Programme (AHP), marking a major transformation of an area once characterised by overcrowded and dilapidated structures. The development, Phase II of the Boma Yangu Mukuru Estate, was officially handed over by President William Ruto in […]
Read briefingSaturday's result left Liverpool with two draws from two league matches under Iraola Andoni.
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Read briefingMembers of the UAE's vast Palestinian diaspora gathered to show their love, support and celebrate the ties that bind them to the Emirates. Families in traditional hand-embroidered thobes filled the conference centre at Expo City Dubai for Emirates Loves Palestine, the first community event of its kind.Grandchildren pushed their grandparents in wheelchairs and fathers held young children on their shoulders as they queued to hear folk songs and taste Palestine's famous breads and sweets.Many Palestinian residents were born in this country and have never lived in, or even visited, the home of their ancestors.“This event is so important to Palestinians, because it shows us how the UAE loves us, and takes care of Palestinian people,” said Sultan Mohamed, 15, who came with his siblings and parents.“I came here because we want to experience the music, the songs of the Palestinian people.”Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, Minister of Tolerance and Coexistence, was in attendance and said: "It gives me great pleasure to be with you at this wonderful fraternal gathering, which represents the largest gathering of the Palestinian community in the world, and which clearly embodies the sincere feelings of affection that the United Arab Emirates holds for Palestine and its brotherly people."He added: "In this gathering, which expresses the UAE's love for Palestine, we send together a messag...
Read briefingKCB manager was buried in late-night ceremony on Friday.
Read briefingMuhoroni’s sugar economy is showing renewed signs of recovery, with the local mill processing about 1,400 tonnes of sugarcane daily and farmers receiving payment within a week of delivering their produce. The revival of Muhoroni Sugar Company has restored business for cane growers, transporters, factory workers and traders whose livelihoods are linked to the mill. […]
Read briefingLiverpool twice trailed to Nottingham Forest before coming back to earn a point in an entertaining 2-2 draw at Anfield.On a day it was announced Liverpool had agreed a deal with Paris Saint-Germain forward Bradley Barcola that could be worth £123 million, it was notable how little Alexander Isak was involved in the game, though he did get on the scoresheet.Dan Ndoye scored his first Nottingham Forest goal since the opening weekend of last season to put the away side ahead. Isak, who had another disappointing game, levelled the score on the hour, slotting home after good wing play from Cody Gakpo.Alisson Becker fouled former Liverpool teammate Neco Williams in the penalty area, conceding a penalty. Forest captain Morgan Gibbs-White stepped up and dispatched his shot in the top left corner.Victor Munoz, a summer signing from Osasuna, then showed great feet to turn and shoot, and his effort crashed in off the underside of the bar via a slight deflection.It leaves Liverpool boss Andoni Iraola still searching for his first league win following last weekend's 2-2 draw against Newcastle United.What they saidLiverpool manager Andoni Iraola: "We were poor in the first half. We improved a lot our performance in the second half; we came from behind twice, but I think the first half didn't allow us to win the game at the end."Nottingham Forest defender Neco Williams: "Everyone knows how di...
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Read briefingThe Government will invest Ksh4 billion in a new smart city in Malaba, Busia County, President William Ruto has announced. The President explained that the smart city, which will have 2,000 affordable housing units and other amenities, will create jobs and business opportunities for the residents, and attract investors to the border town. “We will build a smart city in Malaba so that it starts looking better and stops looking like a shopping centre,” he said. Addressing a delegation of grassroots leaders from the Iteso community at the Eldoret State Lodge, Uasin Gishu County, on Saturday, President Ruto said the Government has allocated Ksh18 billion to Busia County for the construction of affordable houses, modern markets and university and college student hostels, “Nationally, the Affordable Housing Programme has so far employed 1.1 million people, including architects, quantity surveyors, mechanical engineers, plumbers, carpenters, electricians and masons, among others,” he said. On the 1.5 per cent Housing Fund paid by employees and employers to support the Affordable Housing Programme, the President said public servants have not suffered financial loss because they have benefited from a 10 per cent salary in recent years. The President commended leaders from Busia County for educating the residents on the need to register with the Social Health Authority (SHA), saying 449,...
Read briefingNAIROBI, Kenya, Aug 29 – The parents of late KCB executive Rosemary Chemutai Koech have explained why they proceeded to bury their daughter at night, despite a court order seeking to stop her interment at their family home in Chepseon, Kericho County. Speaking during a memorial service for Rosemary, her mother, Beatrice Koech, said the family was determined to give their daughter the dignity they believed she deserved and provide a place where her four children could easily visit and mourn her. The burial on Friday night came hours after the Milimani Commercial Magistrate’s Court issued interim orders stopping the interment without the involvement and consent of Rosemary’s husband, Kevin Migwe Kimwatu. The dispute had centred on where the 40-year-old KCB Bank Head of Data Protection should be buried, with her husband seeking to have her laid to rest at his ancestral home in Matasia, Ngong, Kajiado County, while her parents wanted her buried at their home in Chepseon. But speaking during the memorial, Beatrice said the family had chosen to lay Rosemary to rest on their land because they believed it offered her children a place of comfort and connection with their mother. “We are very excited that we have managed to give Chemu the dignity that she deserved and lead her to rest where she will continue to rest happily and where she will be cared and loved together with her children...
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