Kenneth Law pleads guilty to aiding suicides

24 minutes ago Sean Dilley and Christina McSorley PA Media Kenneth Law appeared at court in Ontario, Canada A man has pleaded guilty to 14 counts of aiding suicides in Canada after he sold toxic chemicals online. Kenneth Law, 60, entered the guilty pleas relating to Canadian victims in an Ontario court on Friday, as

Dormitory Blaze Kills at Least 16 Girls in Kenya

A fire has ripped through a dormitory at a girls’ school in Kenya’s Rift valley, killing at least 16 students. The fire broke out just after midnight at Utumishi girls academy in Gilgil, Nakuru county, about 76 miles north-west of Nairobi, police said. The education minister, Julius Migos Ogamba, told reporters that 79 other students

Two teens drown in Kent and Oxford during heatwave

UKNIP Emergency crews were called to reports of concerns for a swimmer in a pond in Swanscombe, Kent Two teenage boys have died in separate incidents in Kent and Oxford, the latest in a series of water-related deaths during the recent heatwave. The body of a boy, 15, was recovered from a pond in Swanscombe

US Establishing Ebola Quarantine Center in Kenya

The Trump administration is building a quarantine and treatment center in Kenya for Americans affected by the Ebola outbreak, instead of bringing them home. The White House on Wednesday confirmed that the US was setting up a facility in Kenya for Americans to quarantine after Ebola exposure in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

Open-water safety warning after nine drownings in heatwave

Supplied Declan Sawyer (left) and Reco Puttock died in separate incidents after getting into difficulty in water People have been warned of the dangers of swimming in open water after multiple deaths during the recent heatwave. The Royal Life Saving Society (RLSS) issued a warning following the fatal incidents, most of which involved children, saying

WHO: Ebola in DRC Outpacing Response Efforts

The World Health Organization has warned that the Ebola outbreak is outpacing response efforts and countries neighbouring the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are at high risk from the disease. “We are urgently scaling up operations, but at the moment the epidemic is outpacing us,” said the WHO’s director-general, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, as he

Sentences Referred After Teen Rape Convictions in Hampshire

56 minutes ago Dominic Casciani, Home and Legal Correspondent and Ros Tappenden, South of England Crown Prosecution Service One of the girls was attacked in an underpass beside the River Avon The family of a teenage rape victim whose attackers were spared custody has told the BBC they hope "the correct outcome will prevail" when

WHO: Ebola in DRC Surpassing Response, Neighbours at Risk

The World Health Organization has warned that the Ebola outbreak is outpacing response efforts and countries neighbouring the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are at high risk from the disease. “We are urgently scaling up operations, but at the moment the epidemic is outpacing us,” said the WHO’s director-general, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, as he

Questions from the Peter Murrell embezzlement scandal

2 hours ago Glenn Campbell Scotland political editor Reuters Peter Murrell was chief executive of the SNP for 24 years This embezzlement case has been hanging over the SNP like a toxic cloud since the police investigation began five years ago. SNP strategists believe the controversy corroded trust in the party and cost them a

Ebola suspected cases in DR Congo top 900 amid attacks, shortages

Congolese authorities say that suspected Ebola cases have now passed 900 in the ongoing outbreak in the east of the country. The Congolese ministry of communication, in a post on X on Sunday, said there were 904 suspected cases and 119 suspected deaths. Authorities had previously announced more than 700 suspected Ebola cases, and more
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