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Renee Good: Family of US woman killed by ICE agent sues Trump officials

2 October, 2026

KAUMI GAZETTE Premium Advertising Space PREMIUM · LEADERBOARD ADVERTISEMENT The family of a woman who was killed by an immigration agent in Minneapolis has announced two lawsuits against the US government and members of the Trump administration.Renee Good, a US citizen, was shot to death by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer during a

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Christa Pike in critical condition after surviving two lethal injections, lawyer says

2 October, 2026

KAUMI GAZETTE Premium Advertising Space PREMIUM · LEADERBOARD ADVERTISEMENT Tennessee death row inmate Christa Pike is in “critical condition, receiving life-saving care” at hospital, after surviving two lethal injection attempts, leading the state’s governor to halt all executions for the year.”We don’t have a sense of her prognosis or much update on her health at

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Fires break out at French schools as students protest nationwide

2 October, 2026

KAUMI GAZETTE Premium Advertising Space PREMIUM · LEADERBOARD ADVERTISEMENT Fires have broken out at several schools in France, as students protest by blockading education institutions nationwide over school funding and studying conditions.Blazes were reported at two high schools in Nantes, western France, while another was filmed engulfing the entrance of a school in the northern

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What happened in failed execution of Christa Pike – and what next?

1 October, 2026

KAUMI GAZETTE Premium Advertising Space PREMIUM · LEADERBOARD ADVERTISEMENT In recent years, states have found some drugs needed for lethal injections harder to come by, because pharmaceutical companies have opposed the use of their products for such purposes.The Tennessee Department of Correction has not specifically addressed an allegation from Pike’s legal team that the pentobarbital

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Russian dissident Garry Kasparov says US warned him of danger to his life

1 October, 2026

KAUMI GAZETTE Premium Advertising Space PREMIUM · LEADERBOARD ADVERTISEMENT An exiled Russian opposition figure living in the US says he was warned by American and Lithuanian security services that his life was in danger.Former chess world champion Garry Kasparov said he was one of two dissidents told to take precautions, which he had done.His comments

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Cornell case spotlights ‘confusing’ web of systems for reporting campus assaults

1 October, 2026

KAUMI GAZETTE Premium Advertising Space PREMIUM · LEADERBOARD ADVERTISEMENT Typically, after a student reports an assault on campus, the university’s Title IX office determines whether the alleged behaviour could constitute a violation of policy. Eventually, both parties attend a hearing with a panel of faculty members or other mediators to present evidence and testimony in

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Wicknell Chivayo: Zimbabwean businessman and wife killed in helicopter crash

1 October, 2026

KAUMI GAZETTE Premium Advertising Space PREMIUM · LEADERBOARD ADVERTISEMENT Earlier, government spokesman Nick Mangwana confirmed the crash, saying the helicopter was carrying “a prominent businessman, three other passengers and two pilots”. “Current information indicates that there were no survivors in this crash,” Mangwana posted on X.Chivayo was the managing director of Intratrek Zimbabwe and had

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Aliko Dangote launches Kenya oil refinery amid land protest in Lamu

1 October, 2026

KAUMI GAZETTE Premium Advertising Space PREMIUM · LEADERBOARD ADVERTISEMENT Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote and Kenya’s President William Ruto have broken ground on a $16bn (£12bn) oil refinery in Lamu, on Kenya’s northern coast.Upon completion, the refinery is expected to process 700,000 barrels of crude oil a day, making it East Africa’s largest industrial project by

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Plummeting Israel flight like ‘rollercoaster’, says passenger

1 October, 2026

KAUMI GAZETTE Premium Advertising Space PREMIUM · LEADERBOARD ADVERTISEMENT A passenger on board Flight FZ1073, which fell 17,000ft (5,200m) in less than two minutes when a pilot apparently stabbed his co-pilot, told the BBC about his experience. The aircraft had been flying to Israel when the incident took place, which Almog Itali described as feeling

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‘Hero’ pilot stabbed by other pilot on Israel-bound plane, Israeli PM says

1 October, 2026

KAUMI GAZETTE Premium Advertising Space PREMIUM · LEADERBOARD ADVERTISEMENT No motive for the incident has been given and the pilot was under investigation in Saudi Arabia, Netanyahu told Fox News on Wednesday night, before he was expected to be taken back to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), where the flight took off from.Israel was “likely”

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US Supreme Court allows execution of Christa Pike to go ahead

1 October, 2026

KAUMI GAZETTE Premium Advertising Space PREMIUM · LEADERBOARD ADVERTISEMENT The US Supreme Court has cleared the way for Tennessee inmate Christa Pike to be executed, overturning a last-minute reprieve.The killing by lethal injection was scheduled for Wednesday morning before judges from the Sixth Circuit Appeals court halted the execution. Tennessee’s attorney general then immediately requested

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Flydubai passenger describes putting attacker in chokehold after cockpit stabbing

1 October, 2026

KAUMI GAZETTE Premium Advertising Space PREMIUM · LEADERBOARD ADVERTISEMENT Passengers on a flight to Israel have recounted how they subdued a pilot after he stabbed the other pilot and appeared to be trying to disable the plane, while others described the “terrifying” moment they thought they would die.Appearing in a bloodstained shirt after the ordeal,

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UK-France ‘one in, one out’ migrant scheme scrapped

1 October, 2026

KAUMI GAZETTE Premium Advertising Space PREMIUM · LEADERBOARD ADVERTISEMENT The UK government has announced the “one in, one out” agreement with France to send back some migrants who cross the Channel has been scrapped.The pilot scheme allowed the UK to return some small boat arrivals while agreeing to take in the same number of people

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Execution of US murderer Christa Pike halted shortly before it was due to happen

30 September, 2026

KAUMI GAZETTE Premium Advertising Space PREMIUM · LEADERBOARD ADVERTISEMENT The execution of Tennessee inmate Christa Pike has been halted just over an hour before it was due to happen.Pike, 50, has been awaiting execution since she was convicted and sentenced to death in 1996 for the murder of Colleen Slemmer.In their ruling on Wednesday, judges

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Dozens hurt and hundreds arrested in wave of French school protests

30 September, 2026

KAUMI GAZETTE Premium Advertising Space PREMIUM · LEADERBOARD ADVERTISEMENT Four-hundred-and-forty people, mostly minors, have been arrested and 76 injured as a wave of school protests over overcrowded classes and teacher shortages spreads across France, officials say.The demonstrations began in Paris last week but have escalated to cities including Dijon, Lyon, Strasbourg, Lille and Marseille, with

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Russia launches largest attack on Ukraine energy infrastructure since spring

30 September, 2026

KAUMI GAZETTE Premium Advertising Space PREMIUM · LEADERBOARD ADVERTISEMENT Russia has launched the largest attack on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure since the spring, primarily targeting Kyiv and the surrounding region, Ukrainian Prime Minister Serhiy Koretskyi has said.At least six people were killed and 33 others injured across the country in the overnight attacks, including a child

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Israel-bound flight diverted after fight between pilots

30 September, 2026

KAUMI GAZETTE Premium Advertising Space PREMIUM · LEADERBOARD ADVERTISEMENT A flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv was unexpectedly diverted to Saudi Arabia after a fight between the pilots, Israeli officials told local media.The Flydubai plane – which took off from Dubai International Airport in the United Arab Emirates early on Wednesday morning – signalled an

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S Korea demands apology from Pyongyang over landmine blast

30 September, 2026

KAUMI GAZETTE Premium Advertising Space PREMIUM · LEADERBOARD ADVERTISEMENT South Korea’s military has demanded an apology from North Korea for landmine blasts along their shared border that wounded South Korean soldiers earlier this month.Three South Korean personnel were injured by explosions in the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) – a buffer zone separating the two Koreas, on

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Restaurant named after Xi Jinping attacked by Chinese nationals

30 September, 2026

KAUMI GAZETTE Premium Advertising Space PREMIUM · LEADERBOARD ADVERTISEMENT A restaurant in South Korea named after Chinese leader Xi Jinping has been vandalised by a group of Chinese nationals who fled home right after the attack, police say.Surveillance footage from the restaurant in Seongnam, a city south of Seoul, shows four masked men storming the

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Chinese AI tool told researchers how to make bioweapons

30 September, 2026

KAUMI GAZETTE Premium Advertising Space PREMIUM · LEADERBOARD ADVERTISEMENT Chinese AI developer Moonshot is conducting an internal review after researchers were able to persuade two of its popular Kimi models to tell them how to make biological weapons and carry out assassinations.Mindgard, which tests the security of AI systems, told the BBC it discovered in

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Ukraine’s prized steel industry left in ruins by Russian missile campaign

30 September, 2026

KAUMI GAZETTE Premium Advertising Space PREMIUM · LEADERBOARD ADVERTISEMENT If the steelworks remain shut, hundreds of thousands of people may lose their jobs, and the resulting waves of migration will reach far beyond Ukraine, Zinchenko warned. “A humanitarian catastrophe is looming.”The end of steelmaking in Ukraine would also have severe consequences for its defence capabilities

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Former American Idol contestant Caleb Flynn found guilty of murdering wife

30 September, 2026

KAUMI GAZETTE Premium Advertising Space PREMIUM · LEADERBOARD ADVERTISEMENT A former Ohio music pastor who once appeared on the TV talent competition American Idol has been found guilty of murdering his wife.Caleb Flynn, 40, fatally shot Ashley Flynn twice in the back of the head while she slept at their Ohio home on 16 February

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New York Times executive fatally shot by elderly in-laws, police say

30 September, 2026

KAUMI GAZETTE Premium Advertising Space PREMIUM · LEADERBOARD ADVERTISEMENT A New York Times executive was fatally shot in California, allegedly by his wife’s elderly parents who have been arrested on suspicion of murder.Jonathan McKinsey, 40, the newspaper’s director of engineering for games player experience, was found with multiple gunshot wounds in a car park in

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Spain announces ban on evictions after protests over 87-year-old woman’s removal from flat

29 September, 2026

KAUMI GAZETTE Premium Advertising Space PREMIUM · LEADERBOARD ADVERTISEMENT Spain’s coalition government has approved new housing measures following protests over the country’s housing crisis, sparked by the eviction of an 87-year-old woman from her home in Madrid last week.Ministers met on Tuesday to discuss the proposals, which include a ban on evictions until 2030.Announcing the

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