- Donald Trump's lawyer sought on Friday to undermine the credibility of a former tabloid publisher who testified at the former president's criminal trial about his paper's efforts to bury news that could have damaged Trump's 2016 White House bid.
- Ukraine warned Friday that Moscow was ramping up attacks on railways in a bid to disrupt military supplies ahead of a fresh Russian offensive while Kyiv waits for new US weapon deliveries.
- At least 10 people were killed Friday in a fire that broke out in a defunct hotel being used as a makeshift homeless shelter in the city of Porto Alegre in southern Brazil, officials said.
- Somalia's government said it had suspended and detained several members of an elite, U.S.-trained commando unit for stealing rations donated by the United States, adding that it was taking over responsibility for provisioning the force.
- Pope Francis will attend this year's Group of Seven (G7) leaders' summit to discuss the challenges posed by Artificial Intelligence (AI), Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on Friday.
- UDA party grassroots elections kicked off in various counties to confusion largely caused by voter identification hitches in some parts and late starts in others.
- Senior Sergeant John Kinyua Muriithi, a military personnel who died in the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) helicopter crash last week, was on Friday laid to rest at their home in Kirimunge Village, Kirinyaga County.
- Burkina Faso has suspended the BBC and Voice of America radio networks from broadcasting for airing a rights report accusing the army of attacks on civilians in its battle against jihadists.
- Three suspects were arraigned at the Embu Law Courts on Friday for allegedly demanding a bribe to facilitate the recruitment of two sisters into the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS).
- A 13-year-old girl made a first appearance in court in Wales on Friday on three counts of attempted murder after two teachers and a pupil were stabbed at a secondary school.
- Manyatta Member of Parliament Gitonga Mukunji has raised concerns over the inactive state of the Rehabilitation Fund established to combat drug and substance abuse in the country.
- Tanzania's minister of Agriculture Hussein Bashe has responded to allegations made by popular Kenyan lawyer Ahmednassir Abdullahi regarding the origin of the fake fertilizer circulating the country
- In a statement on X on Friday, KeNHA cautioned that the wearing away of the causeway poses potential hazards to motorists using the adjacent service road
- A 24-year-old suspected drug trafficker was on Friday arrested after police discovered 417 grams of cocaine, worth an estimated Ksh.1.8 million, concealed under the inner sole of his shoes.
- Kirinyaga Governor Anne Waiguru has initiated emergency disaster response measures to deal with floods and other emergencies arising from heavy rains that have hit the County.
- A fuel tanker transporting Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) on Friday overturned along the Londiani-Muhoroni Road at Lesirwo area, Kericho County, causing a gas leak on the busy road.
- Kenya has welcomed the swearing in of the Haiti Transitional Presidential Council (TPC), promising to support it in its quest to liberate and lead the troubled Caribbean nation overrun by armed gangs.
- Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry has resigned, his office said on Thursday, as a transitional council took power intending to return stability to a country where gang violence has caused chaos and misery.
- The flood disaster that hit Mathare on Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning has brought to light the togetherness of the residents living in the informal settlements.
- A 35-year-old rape suspect is nursing a gunshot wound at Siaya County Referral Hospital after he was shot for attacking and seriously injuring a police constable in Alego/Usonga Sub-county.
- Italy on Thursday condemned the death sentence handed to an Iranian rapper for supporting nationwide protests sparked by the death of the young Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini.
- Israel stepped up airstrikes on Rafah overnight after saying it would evacuate civilians from the southern Gazan city and launch an all-out assault despite allies' warnings this could cause mass casualties.
- At least 118 inmates escaped from prison after heavy rains on Wednesday night damaged the facility in Suleja near the Nigerian capital, a prison service spokesperson said.
- Tanzania on Thursday dismissed as "unfounded" allegations of killings, rapes and the planned evictions of over 20,000 people that led the World Bank to suspend funding for a $150 million (Ksh.20.2 billion)conservation project.
- City preacher James Wanjohi and three directors of two companies allegedly involved in scamming thousands of Kenyans over Ksh. 1 billion with a promise to help them secure jobs abroad and travel visas have been stopped from leaving the country.
- Former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker testified at Donald Trump's criminal trial on Thursday that he worked out a deal that would allow Trump to buy the silence of a former Playboy model who said she had an affair with him but called it off.
- China on Thursday sent three astronauts to its permanently inhabited space station for a six-month stay, in a regular rotation of Chinese astronauts onboard the "Tiangong" orbiting high above the Earth's atmosphere.
- Siaya Governor James Orengo has hit out at EACC CEO Twalib Mbarak over his thinly-veiled remarks intimating an ongoing graft probe in the devolved unit.
- Siaya Governor James Orengo has hit out at EACC CEO Twalib Mbarak over his thinly-veiled remarks intimating an ongoing graft probe in the devolved unit.
- Despite a court order stopping the government from intimidating or firing striking doctors, some striking medics’ have received dismissal letters and have had their salaries for the period they have been on go-slow withheld.
- Residents of Winjo are in Muhuru ward of Nyatike, Migori County, are counting losses following after the Black Quarter disease reportedly claimed 27 cows.
- New York's highest court on Thursday overturned disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein's 2020 conviction on sex crime charges, a shocking reversal in one of the defining cases of the #MeToo movement.
- The 27-year-old former winner of France's version of The Voice was found wounded after police were called to a traveller camp in Biscarrosse on France's southwestern coast.
- A Narok County multi-agency team and the Kenya Red Cross have launched efforts to recover the bodies of two Maasai Mara University students who drowned in the Enkare-Narok River.
- According to State House Spokesperson Hussein Mohamed, President Ruto's first stop will be Tanzania, where he will attend celebrations commemorating the 60th anniversary of the union of mainland Tanzania and Zanzibar.