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Kenyan police celebrated the 35th anniversary of a democratic rally that spurred anti-government resentment among young Kenyans by using tear gas and water cannons on protesters.

The East African country is struck by a wave of bloody protests that began last year over an unpopular financial bill that raised taxes amid the cost of living.

The Kenyan government retracted the tax bill after demonstrations last June, but anger grew at the recent death of a teacher in police custody and the shooting of an unarmed street vendor by the police.

At least 16 people were killed and hundreds were injured last month during anti-government protests. Dozens more people died in the 2024 anti-tax demonstrations.

On Monday, several areas of Kenya watched the rally on July 7, 1990 as people marked the anniversary of the democratic march known as Sabah Sabah.

In Nairobi, Kenyan security forces fought out protesters with tear gas and water cannons hours after blocking the main road leading to the city. The road leading to the Kenya Parliament building, as well as the president’s office and residence, were also barricaded before the demonstrations.

On Monday afternoon, there were reports of police firing at protesters. CNN has not confirmed the report, and police spokesman Muchiri Nyaga told CNN he was not aware of his death.

CNN Affiliate Citizen TV has reported that at least two people have been shot and killed in Nairobi’s Kangemi area. He added that another man was shot in the area and was unconsciously labelled “she was seen lying on the road.”

In other parts of the city, despite the chaotic scene, some protesters remain rebellious.

“Who will fight for our rights (are we not ready to go back home? We will be here until the evening,” protester Francis Wazwa told Reuters.

The Clampdown comes after an individual described by the Kenya Human Rights Commission as an “employed fool” attacked the NGO office saying that he was “sent from the state to silence the objection.”

In a statement Sunday night, human rights groups said those entering the building “has been violently confused by the press conference by their Kenyan mothers.

Kenya government spokesman Isaac Mwaura told CNN to “contact a police spokesman” for comments when asked about the allegations.

Police spokesman Nyaga said “The National Police are considering the case and will take appropriate action after reviewing unacceptable clips.”

Earlier on Sunday, Home Minister Kipchumba Markomen said security agencies are “exerting high vigilance to decisively deal with criminals and other malicious elements that seek to infiltrate peaceful enactments to cause chaos, mayhem, or destruction of property.”

Murkomen previously described last month’s demonstration in a statement that “terrorism challenged” and further suppressed anger.

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Roman Starvoight’s former Transport Minister Roman Starvoid died of suicide on Monday just hours after Russian President Vladimir Putin fired him from his job, officials said.

Roman Starvoight’s former Transport Minister Roman Starvoid died of suicide on Monday just hours after Russian President Vladimir Putin fired him from his job, officials said.

Starvoite was fired by Putin on Monday morning. The order announced his dismissal was published on the official Kremlin website where his deputy Andrei Nikitin was appointed as representative minister.

Looking for the reasons behind Starvoite’s firing from reporters, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov denied this was due to “lack of trust,” but he gave no reason to replace it.

The Russian commission on investigation said in a statement that Starvoid’s body was found in a car in Odyntsovo on the outskirts of Moscow. He was found with a gunshot wound, the committee said. The circumstances of his death were being investigated, but he said, “The main theory is suicide.”

Before he became a pastor in May 2024, Starvoid was governor of the Kursk region of southern Russia. He left the post before the surprising invasion of Ukraine, but he was partially blamed for the failure of security in the Russian region.

The firing came amidst the chaos of a few days of air travel in Russia. According to the Russian Federation Air Transport Agency, flights 485 have been cancelled, flights 88 have been decoupled, and 1,900 have been delayed on weekends and Mondays.

The agency said the cancellations were “external interference” without providing details. However, the Russian Ministry of Defense said more than 400 Ukraine’s long-range strikes were intercepted during the same period.

This is a developing story and will be updated.

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The owner of a pet lion has been arrested for attacking a woman and two children from Lahore, Pakistan.

The 5- and 7-year-old women and her two young children were taken to hospital after being attacked in an alleyway when a lion escaped from a farmhouse near the town of Johann on Thursday.

Security camera footage released by police showed a lion jumping up on a concrete wall, attacking the woman from behind and slamming it onto the ground. Before the wild cat descends further down the path where the children were attacked, a man is seen having a lion escaped with an object in hand, and a woman has escaped from the property where he chased the lion.

They had face and arm injuries, but are now in stable condition, according to the Associated Press news agency.

Lahore police said in a video posted on social media that the lion escaped from the open cage of the farmhouse and was recaptured by its owner.

Muhammad Faisal Kamran, assistant inspector of the Lahore Police Operation, said three people had been arrested on Friday morning. “We captured the lion and transferred it to the wildlife authorities,” Camran said.

Lahore police shared images of three men in police cells and put a video of the lion in a cage.

Local media reported that the owner does not have a license to maintain the lion and will be charged under the Wildlife Act. This means you could face a maximum sentence of seven years or a fine worth $17,500. CNN is seeking confirmation from Punjab’s Wildlife and Parks Department.

Owning a wild cat as a pet is considered a Pakistani status symbol and is not uncommon, but requires a license and large cats must be kept outside of the city’s sphere.

“This unfortunate incident highlights the maintenance of wildlife in such places without a license or permit, which puts the lives of many people at risk.

The Punjab government announced on Sunday that it is taking on statewide crackdown on people who keep lions unlicensed. To date, 13 lions have been captured and five individuals have been arrested for violating wildlife regulations.

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The rummaging Lewotbi rakiraki in Indonesia erupted on Monday, sending 18-kilometer (11 miles) columns of volcanic material into the sky, depositing ashes into the village.

The volcano has been at the highest alert level since last month, and no casualties were reported immediately.

The Indonesian Geological Agency recorded an avalanche of burnt gas clouds mixed with rocks and lava moving up to five kilometers (3 miles) along the volcanic slopes during the eruption. Observations from the drone show that the lava fills the crater, indicating the deep movement of the magma that has been caused by the volcanic earthquake.

Geological Director Muhammad Wayfid said the hot cloud columns rising into the sky were the highest of the volcano since the major eruption in November 2024 and the major eruption in November 2024. It exploded in March as well.

“An eruption of that size is certainly likely to be dangerous, including its impact on aviation,” Wafid said he was attending a seminar with the Associated Press in Switzerland. “We will reevaluate it to expand the risk zones where villagers and tourist activities must be exempt.”

The Volcanic Watch Agency has increased the alert status of Lewotvirakiraki Mountain to the highest level after the eruption on June 18th, and has more than doubled the exclusion zone to a 7-kilometer (4.3 miles) radius as eruptions become more frequent.

After the eruption early last year, around 6,500 people were evacuated and the island’s Frans Seda airport was closed. The airport has remained closed since then.

The 1,584-meter (5,197 feet) mountain is a twin volcano located in the Florestimur district of Lewotbiperempuan.

Monday’s eruption was one of Indonesia’s largest volcanic eruptions since 2010 when Mount Merapi, which erupted on the populous island of Java in 2010. The eruption killed 353 people and forced over 350,000 people to evacuate the affected areas.

Indonesia is an archipelago of over 280 million people who are frequently seismic. There are 120 active volcanoes and sit along the Ring of Fire, a series of horseshoe-shaped seismic fault lines surrounding the Pacific Basin.

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Australian woman Erin Patterson has been accused of killing three relatives in a meal of death cap mushrooms grilled at Wellington’s beef lunch, and is found guilty of three murders and attempted murder of only survivors.

12 ju umpires reached the verdict after about six day After deliberations followed a 10-week trial in Morwell, a small town about an hour’s drive from the dining room on the outskirts of Leongasa, Victoria, where fatal lunch was served in July 2023.

Dozens of media crews competed in court when dozens of media crews announced that ju-searchers had reached a verdict in a lawsuit that produced four podcasts dedicated to captivating audiences around the world and unpacking daily evidence.

During weeks of testimony, Patterson was accused of intentionally contaminating lunch with Deathcap Mushrooms, a highly toxic fungus he chose after seeing the location posted on a public website.

A few days later, her former stepparents, Don and Gale Patterson, died along with Gale’s sister Heather Wilkinson. Their local pastor, Heather’s husband Ian, survived after a few weeks in the hospital.

Her defense attorneys alleged that it was a “terrifying accident” that occurred when Patterson tried to improve the taste of her meal, and repeatedly lied to police out of panic when she realized she might have added forged mushrooms to the mix.

Patterson sat in court and listened when the prosecutor called out a witness, whose testimony told the persuasive story of a triple murder.

Australian law does not allow any ju judges to be publicly identified and does not disclose the Ju judge’s office’s deliberations even after the trial is over.

We never know which evidence influenced each ju umpire’s decision, but all 12 people had to agree to the verdict.

The agreed fact was that Patterson asked five people to have lunch on July 29, 2023.

Within hours of the meal, four lunch guests – Simon’s parents Don and Gale, as well as his aunts and uncles Heather and Ian Wilkinson, became ill with vomiting and diarrhea. They went to the hospital where the doctors tried to save them, so they were placed in a guided coma s.

Gail and Heather died of a Multiorgan failure on August 4th, and Don passed away on August 5th after failing to respond to a liver transplant. Ian Wilkinson survived and was eventually discharged from the hospital in late September.

Deathcap mushrooms contain amanita toxin that prevents protein production in liver cells, which can lead to cell death and the possibility of liver failure from about 2 days after ingestion.

The deadly mushroom, native to Europe, is grown in several Australian states, and by lunchtime, I was quickly seen by car from Patterson’s house in the countryside of Victoria.

During the trial, prosecutors argued that after seeing where Patterson was featured on the Civic Science Unstable Website, he had the opportunity to choose a deadly mushroom.

The conviction suggests that the ju apprentice accepted the prosecution’s argument that they likely travelled to two sites in April and May 2023, and deliberately chose the mushrooms used in the meal.

Prosecutor Nanette Rogers SC argued that “four calculated deceptions” were at the heart of the case. “The first conception was the claim of a manufactured cancer that she used as a pretense of lunch invitation,” she said.

“The second deception was a fatal lethal dose for the accused secreted in his hometown of Wellington beef. The third deception was her attempt to make her appear to be suffering from death cap poisoning and the fourth deception as well.

Patterson admitted that on April 28th (the same day as the phone signal) she placed her near the death cap mushroom.

It had fingerprints and contained death cap mushroom remnants.

Prosecutors alleged that in the days after Patterson served lunch, he tried to cover the truck by disposing of the dehydrator and factory, resetting her device and removing evidence.

Patterson’s defense attorney Colin Mandy SC accused the prosecutor of being selective with evidence, and accused him of pushing forward “four ridiculous, complicated propositions.”

The first was for Patterson to do this “without motivation,” Mandy said.

He said there are several reasons why Patterson doesn’t want to kill guests. He said she had no money issues, lived in a large house and had almost full-time custody of two young children very close to her grandparents.

The prosecution did not need to prove his motive.

Rogers accused Patterson of having two faces. One showed the world that suggested she had a good relationship with Patterson, and the hidden faces that only showed her Facebook friends that suggested she had “no relation to them.”

In a Facebook message sent in December 2022, Patterson expressed his anger and frustration reluctant to be involved in the fall of Don and Gale’s son’s marriage.

“I’m tired of this shit. I have nothing to do with them,” she wrote. “His parents wanted him to do the right thing, but their concerns that they didn’t want to feel uncomfortable or involved in their son’s personal issues have negated it.”

And another message read, “This family that I swear to f*** God.”

During the eight days of testimony, including cross-examination, Patterson consistently complained of her innocence, claiming that she had added misfortunes to her diet.

In his instructions to the ju judge, Judge Christopher Beale said they should not give bias against her after receiving approval that Patterson had lied and disposed of the evidence.

“This is a court, not a moral court,” he said.

“The question is not whether she is in some sense responsible for the tragic consequences of the lunch, but whether the prosecution has proven beyond reasonable doubt that she is criminally liable for those consequences,” he said.

The ju umpire discovers that Patterson was going to kill all four lunch guests and that she repeatedly stood and lied to claim that she had not.

Patterson will be declared at a later date.

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Israel was the first to attack Yemeni Hooti targets since the Israeli-Iran ceasefire, attacking the port and power station around late-night local time on Sunday night.

The strike occurred after at least three Houthi ballistic missiles were launched in Israel, according to the Israeli Defense Force (IDF), which includes one missile intercepted on Saturday.

Israel raided the ports of Hodeida, Las Isa, Salif and Las Canadib Power Plant along the Red Sea. The IDF also attacked the Galaxy Leader, a cargo ship seized by Houthis in November 2023.

“The Houthi military has installed radar systems on its ships and uses them to track ships in the International Maritime Arena to promote further terrorist activity,” the IDF said in a statement following the strike.

Shortly before the wave of strikes, IDF Arabic spokesman Avichay Adraee issued an evacuation warning to the port and power plants.

Israeli Defense Minister Katz said the strike was part of the newly named operation, the Black Flag. In a statement on social media, Katz said “Houthis will continue to pay a significant price for their actions,” and promised that more attacks will continue if Houthis maintains launch drones and ballistic missiles in Israel.

The Houthi forces confirmed the strike, but said “Yemeni air defenses “effectively faced Israeli attacks” using a massive barrage of locally manufactured locally inter-air missiles.”

There are no immediate reports of victims from the strike.

According to Houthi Run Al-Masirah TV, Mohammed Al Farah, a member of the Politburo of Houthi, said it was “a civilian attempt to harm civilians and has nothing to do with military activity.”

The attack comes as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu travels to Washington to meet President Donald Trump.

Since the Israeli war with Hamas in Gaza began in October 2023, the country has been fired from missiles and rockets from Hezbollah, Lebanon, and Houtis, Yemen, who claim to attack Israel in solidarity with the Palestinians.

Iran-supported Houtis has repeatedly targeted commercial and military vessels in the Red Sea.

In March, the US launched a massive strike in Yemen to reduce the group’s military capabilities.

This story has been updated with additional developments.