A KENYAN court has brought an end to an 11-year legal battle over the mysterious death of British businessman Harry Roy Veevers, ruling that his cause of death cannot be determined due to the severe decomposition of his remains. Magistrate David Odhiambo delivered the ruling on Tuesday, stating that the condition of Mr Veevers’ body exhumed months after his February 14, 2013 burial made it impossible to establish how he died. The body had been stored in a Mombasa morgue ever since. “Due to the level of decomposition at the time of exhumation and the conflicting reports by the pathologists,…
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EUROPEAN champions Paris Saint-Germain beat Tottenham Hotspur 4-3 on penalties to win the UEFA Super Cup on Wednesday after producing a late comeback to draw the match 2-2. The European champions began the new season by lifting more silverware on Wednesday Goncalo Ramos headed in the equaliser in the fourth minute of stoppage time before Nuno Mendes converted the decisive kick in the shoot-out to allow PSG to win the Super Cup for the first time in their history. Spurs looked set to get their hands on the trophy in their first competitive match under new coach Thomas Frank as…
AT least 98 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn, according to medical sources, with Al Jazeera’s team on the ground reporting the intensification of strikes on the northern parts of the besieged enclave, where 61 people were killed in Gaza City alone. Israeli air strikes on groups trying to secure the distribution of aid north of Gaza City killed at least 14 people on Wednesday. At least 37 people desperately seeking any food for their families were killed by Israeli fire, including 16 killed by Israel near an aid point north of Rafah, according to…
AT least 20 migrants died after a boat overturned in the Mediterranean on Wednesday, with many more still missing, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said. “Deep anguish for the umpteenth shipwreck off the coast of Lampedusa, where UNHCR is now assisting the survivors. It looks to be 20 bodies found and as many missing,” wrote the agency’s spokesman, Filippo Ungaro, on social media. Italian news agency Radio Radicale said the boat had been carrying 97 people when it shipwrecked 14 miles southwest of Lampedusa. Details remained sketchy but Save the Children Italy said that a baby girl,…
NIGER’s lawyers have announced a two-day strike on Thursday and Friday to protest against the military government’s dissolution of the West African country’s justice unions. The lawyers accuse the junta, which seized power in the insurgents-hit Sahel nation in a July 2023 coup, of threatening the independence of the justice system. Last week, the junta’s Interior Minister, General Mohamed Toumba, dissolved five judicial unions, a move that Justice Minister Alio Daouda justified by arguing the syndicates were “dragging everyone down” by “promoting personal interests”. Niger’s bar association on Tuesday denounced the breakup of the unions, urging their “immediate and unconditional…
CAPE Verde has declared a state of emergency on the islands of São Vicente and Santo Antão, after deadly floods which killed at least nine people and forced 1,500 from their homes. The state of emergency activates crisis funds and urgent infrastructure repairs in the Atlantic Ocean islands off the west coast of Africa. Monday’s flash floods were triggered by Tropical Storm Erin, leading to 193mm (7.6in) of rain in just five hours, far above São Vicente’s annual average. Deputy Prime Minister Olavo Correia told the BBC the floods were “catastrophic”. Rescue teams are desperately searching for missing people, while…
PARIS Saint-Germain goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma has been sensationally left out of the squad for the club’s UEFA Super Cup clash, casting serious doubt over his future at the Parc des Princes and opening the door for a potential move to Manchester United. PSG manager Luis Enrique confirmed on Tuesday that he had dropped the 26-year-old Italy international in favour of Lucas Chevalier and Renato Marin for the trip to Udine, citing a desire for “a different profile” in goal. The decision comes despite Donnarumma being a central figure in PSG’s Champions League triumph last season. “I am supported by my…
A SIX-YEAR-OLD Palestinian boy and a 30-year-old man have died from malnutrition resulting from Israeli-induced starvation of the besieged enclave, the Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza has said, as hunger-related deaths climb and deadly Israeli bombardment continues across the territory. The deaths of Wissam Abu Mohsen and young Jamal Fadi al-Najjar on Tuesday came shortly after Gaza’s Health Ministry said five more people had died of famine within 24 hours, bringing the total number of starvation-related fatalities since the start of Israel’s war to 227, including more than 100 children. In the relentless and punishing daily desperation to find food…
COLOMBIAN biggest presidential candidate Miguel Uribe has died two months after being shot at a campaign rally, his family said Monday, as the attack rekindled fears of a return to the nation’s violent past. The 39-year-old conservative senator, a grandson of former president Julio Cesar Turbay (1978-1982), was shot in the head and leg on June 7 at a rally in the capital, Bogota, by a suspected 15-year-old hitman. Despite signs of progress in recent weeks, his doctors on Saturday announced he had suffered a new brain hemorrhage. “To break up a family is the most horrific act of violence…
SOUTH Africa will offer a “generous” new trade deal to the United States on Tuesday to avoid 30-percent tariffs, government ministers said. Washington on Friday slapped the huge tariff on some South African exports, the highest in sub-Saharan Africa, despite efforts by Pretoria to negotiate a better arrangement to avoid massive job losses. The ministers did not release details of the new offer but said previously discussed measures to increase imports of US poultry, blueberries and pork had been finalised. “When the document is eventually made public, I think you would see it as a very broad, generous and ambitious…
NEARLY 50 prisoners broke out from a jail in the southwest Democratic Republic of Congo in the night from Monday to Tuesday, according to local sources. Prison breaks are a feature of life in the DRC, where the majority of jails were built by the country’s Belgian colonisers and are today overflowing with inmates. “Of the 104 prisoners being held in the central prison of Idiofa, 47 have escaped,” Arsene Kasiama, coordinator of a local civil society organisation, told AFP. Located some 600 kilometres (370 miles) east of the capital Kinshasa, the Idiofa prison was built in 1937 under Belgian…
MANCHESTER United have been handed encouragement in their pursuit of Carlos Baleba with Brighton. Having spent upwards of £200million bolstering the forward line, United have set their sights on strengthening the midfield and have Baleba top of their wishlist. Reports last week claimed that contact had been made between the two clubs regarding a deal, during which Brighton slapped an asking price of more than £100m on their player’s head. Tongues were sent wagging over the weekend when Baleba was absent from Brighton’s final pre-season friendly, a behind-closed-doors test against Wolfsburg. The 21-year-old has now missed his club’s last three…
HUNDREDS of Palestinians in Gaza City have attended the funeral of five Al Jazeera staff, including correspondent Anas al-Sharif, who were killed in an Israeli air strike outside al-Shifa Hospital. On Monday, large crowds joined the funeral procession, carrying the journalists’ bodies from al-Shifa Hospital to Sheikh Radwan Cemetery in central Gaza. Colleagues, friends, and relatives embraced in grief, while a man lifted a “press” flak jacket high above the crowd. The strike late on Sunday killed seven people, including correspondent Mohammed Qreiqeh, along with camera operators Ibrahim Zaher, Moamen Aliwa, and Mohammed Noufal. Freelance reporter Mohammed al-Khaldi was also…
UNITED States President Donald Trump has said his administration is “looking at” reclassifying cannabis as a less dangerous drug. Speaking to reporters at the White House on Monday, Trump said he would make a determination on the legal classification of the drug over the next few weeks. “That determination hopefully will be the right one,” Trump said. “It’s a very complicated subject.” Trump said that while he had heard “great things” about medical-use cannabis, he had heard bad things about “just about everything else” to do with the drug. “Some people like it, some people hate it,” he said. “Some…
THE death of a one-month-old baby girl who was the victim of female genital mutilation (FGM) in The Gambia has sparked widespread outrage. The baby was rushed to a hospital in the capital, Banjul, after she developed severe bleeding, but was pronounced dead on arrival, police said. Although an autopsy is still being conducted to establish the cause of her death, many people have linked it to FGM, or female circumcision, a cultural practice outlawed in the West African state. “Culture is no excuse, tradition is no shield, this is violence, pure and simple,” a leading non-governmental organisation, Women In…
EasyJet has suspended one of its captains after he was reportedly seen roaming a luxury hotel drunk and naked. The unnamed pilot was witnessed walking through common areas of a five-star resort in Cape Verde without any clothes on in the early hours of the morning on 5 August, after an extended drinking session in a bar, according to the Sun. He was due to operate a return flight to Gatwick more than 36 hours later, but was grounded after the budget airline received complaints about the incident and a replacement pilot found. An EasyJet spokesman told the BBC the…
CRYSTAL Palace started the new season with a suddenly familiar feeling, basking in trophy glory as triumphant underdogs at Wembley. The FA Cup holders beat Premier League champions Liverpool 3-2 on penalties after a 2-2 draw to win an enthralling Community Shield on Sunday. Goalkeeper Dean Henderson was the shootout hero for Palace as he saved from Alexis Mac Allister and Harvey Elliott, while Mohamed Salah sent his kick over the bar. It allowed 21-year-old midfielder Justin Devenny, sent on as a stoppage-time substitute, to smash the winning penalty past Alisson. Palace, who had not won a major trophy in…
A 15-YEAR-OLD Palestinian boy has been crushed to death by a falling pallet during an airdrop of humanitarian aid in Gaza, as global condemnation grows of Israel’s plan to take over the largest city in the war-torn enclave, where nearly a million people are sheltering. Footage from Gaza, verified by Al Jazeera, shows several people gathering around the body of Muhannad Zakaria Eid on Saturday, near the so-called Netzarim Corridor in central Gaza, following the airdrop. Some people try to resuscitate the boy, whose face appears bloodied. Other footage shows the boy’s brother carrying him away from the site and…
MORE than 600 Shia pilgrims in Iraq have been briefly hospitalised with respiratory problems after inhaling chlorine as the result of a leak at a water treatment station, according to authorities. The incident took place overnight on the route between the two Shia holy cities of Najaf and Karbala, in the centre and south of Iraq, respectively. This year, several million Shia Muslim pilgrims are expected to make their way to Karbala, which houses the shrines of the revered Imam Hussein and his brother Abbas. There, they will mark the Arbaeen, the 40-day period of mourning during which Shia commemorate…
MALI has arrested dozens of soldiers suspected of plotting to overthrow the junta, which itself took power in the west African country in a coup, sources told AFP on Sunday. Since seizing the reins in Mali through back-to-back coups in 2020 and 2021, the West African country’s junta has ramped up repression of its critics in the face of widespread jihadist unrest. “Since three days ago, there have been arrests linked to an attempt to destabilise the institutions. There have been at least around 20 arrests,” a Malian security source told AFP. A separate source within the army confirmed an…