- China’s civilian spy agency has exposed a Chinese national for allegedly providing sensitive military information to the CIA, the latest in a string of highly public espionage accusations between Washington and Beijing.
- Iraq’s official media regulator has ordered all media and social media companies operating in the Arab state not to use the term “homosexuality” and instead to say “sexual deviance.”
- The county government of Marsabit has denied claims by the Cabinet Secretary for Defence Aden Duale that the county allocated 827 hectares of land for the construction of the Kenya Defence Forces camp at Odda in Moyale Constituency.
- Kenya Bureau of Standards (KEBS) Acting Managing Director Esther Ngari has ceded that the regulatory body does not conduct tests to ascertain the quality of goods sold locally.
- The county government of Marsabit has denied claims by Defence Cabinet Secretary Aden Duale that the county allocated 827 ha of land for the construction of Kenya Defence Forces camp at Odda in Moyale Constituency.
- Six suspects arrested in connection with the assassination of Ecuadorian presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio are Colombian nationals and gang members,
- North Kamagambo ward ODM vice chairperson Mr.Joshua Odera Ngo’nga who has been hospitalized for the past ten days can now breathe a sigh of relief after a section of the ODM party members in Migori County cleared his hospital bill.
- South Africa's former president Jacob Zuma reported back to jail on Friday only to be swiftly released, the government said in the latest twist in the judicial saga over his contempt of court sentence.
- Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni on Thursday denounced the World Bank's decision to suspend new funding in response to a harsh anti-LGBTQ law and vowed to find alternative sources of credit.
- Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni on Thursday denounced the World Bank's decision to suspend new funding in response to a harsh anti-LGBTQ law and vowed to find alternative sources of credit.
- Wearing a rainbow-themed Swatch watch in Malaysia could now land you three years in jail, after the government banned what it described as the brand’s “LGBTQ related” products — claiming they are “harmful to morality.”
- Jailed Australian journalist Cheng Lei yearns for her children and the country's "psychedelic sunsets", she said in a rare public letter marking three years since her mysterious arrest in China.
- A rare burial ceremony was conducted on Thursday in Kirinyaga County where relatives and villagers took less than 10 minutes to bury a 60-year-old man.
- Virgin Galactic launched its first tourist passengers into the weightlessness of space Thursday, the culmination of a nearly two-decade commercial pursuit, the company said.
- Donald Trump's personal assistant on Thursday pleaded not guilty to new federal charges brought over the former US president's alleged hoarding of national security secrets.
- North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has fired his top general amid a shakeup of the country’s military leadership and wants his army to “gird for a war,” state media reported Thursday.
- Israel on Thursday evacuated more than 200 of its nationals or people eligible for citizenship from a violence-wracked region of Ethiopia, the prime minister's office said.
- Rescue teams have found at least 17 bodies on Myanmar’s shores after a Rohingya boat capsized while on its way to Malaysia on Monday, officials told CNN.
- A candidate in Ecuador’s upcoming presidential election, Fernando Villavicencio, was assassinated at a campaign event in the capital Wednesday as a deadly escalation of violence and crime grips the South American country.
- A police constable (PC) attached to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations' (DCI) Makadara precinct was on Tuesday shot dead by three armed robbers in Kayole, Nairobi County.
- Lufthansa pilots are to receive pay rises totalling 18 percent in the coming years, with the German airline saying Thursday it would bring "stability" after strikes over surging inflation.
- Public universities will soon make over 1,000 of their services available on the eCitizen platform in a bid to beat the state's deadline to shift to the online gateway.
- Fyona Wanjiku Kabitta has battled kidney disease since she was 7 and in Standard One. Her father, Walter Njoroge, was her first kidney donor in December 2011, after which she had a second transplant in February 2020.
- Suspected cult leader Paul Mackenzie and his 15 co-accused will be detained for another 47 days to allow the completion of investigations, Shanzu Law Courts Magistrate Yusuf Shikanda has ruled.
- The Principal Secretary for Correctional Services Salome Wairimu has announced plans to decongest the prisons across the country in order to improve their conditions.
- The High Court has dismissed a case in which a man was seeking to be compensated after a condom he was using during sexual intercourse allegedly burst.
- The couple – married 45 years next week – routinely splits up the three-hour job of mowing the lawn of an investment property in Silsbee, north of Beaumont, that’s been in the family since 1850, they told CNN.
- The Ethics and Anti-Corruption (EACC) has ordered the arrest of Kinangop Officer Commanding Station (OCS) Walter Obegi who is on the run after escaping arrest by EACC detectives on Tuesday over bribery claims.
- Maritime security officers in Kilifi, have had to suspend operations to recover the body of a woman, who threw herself into the ocean at the Kilifi bridge.
- Maritime security officers in Kilifi, have had to suspend operations to recover the body of a woman, who threw herself into the ocean at the Kilifi bridge.
- Controversial pastor Paul Mackenzie, who is being held in connection with the death of over 400 people in a suspected starvation cult in Shakahola, Kilifi County has decried what he describes as a violation of his rights.
- Again, on 8th August, he posted, 'Tuko on mfike base' while attaching a photo of himself looking a little haggard, holding on to his 'mayai smokie' trolley.
- Former Nairobi Governor Miko Sonko has intimated that he is still playing a role in government and has been giving counsel on how to tackle a number of pertinent matters.