Author: KahawaTungu Reporter

US homeland security chief Kristi Noem suspended a green card lottery on Thursday, saying it was used by the suspect in a mass shooting at Brown University. Claudio Neves Valente, a 48-year-old Portuguese national, is accused of bursting into a building at the Ivy League school on Dec 13 and opening fire on students sitting exams, killing two and wounding nine. He is also accused of killing a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) two days later. Noem wrote on social media that Neves Valente “entered the United States through the diversity lottery immigrant visa program (DV1) in…

The High Court in Nairobi committed two senior most Presbyterian Church of East Africa to civil jail for defying its orders not to install David Nderitu Ndumo as Honorary Treasurer last year. The sentence to jail Rev Waihenya to one month of imprisonment and Rev Mutahi to three months in prison was read by Lady Justice Stella Mutuku sitting in Nairobi Friday morning. These jail sentences are however subject to the failing to pay fines of Sh100,000 and Sh150,000 respectively. They were given a month to do so failure of which warrant of arrests will be issued against them and…

The suspect ‍in last week’s ‌mass shooting at Brown University was found dead in a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire, following a six-day multi-state manhunt, police say. They identified the suspect as Claudio Neves Valente, 48, a Portuguese national who studied at the university in Providence, Rhode Island, about 25 years ago. Providence police chief Oscar Perez said video evidence and tips from the public led investigators to a car-rental location where they found the suspect’s name and matched him to their person of interest. Officials said they also believe Valente killed a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor two…

Rescue teams in Thika recovered two bodies from a fire that gutted a mattress factory near BAT Makongeni on December 18, 2025. The incident happened at Thika Bebe Hope factory. Authorities confirmed the victims were found during ongoing search operations by firefighters and rescue personnel working to account for all individuals inside the factory at the time of the inferno. Police said five people were rescued and admitted in hospital while one was treated and discharged. The fire also affected first responders. At least three fire fighters who inhaled fumes were treated and discharged while 14 others were accounted for…

Two people Friday dawn shot and seriously wounded in a robbery incident in Kariokor area, Nairobi. One of the victims was robbed of Sh120,000 in the attack, which happened at about 1 am. Police said a gang of two had struck as a woman closed her shop in the area prompting her to scream for help. A man who was standing there and was waiting to be served with food sprung into action in efforts to save the woman. He was shot and injured in the hand and stomach. By then, the gang had grabbed a bag containing the cash…

The Australian government announced a gun buyback scheme in the wake of the Bondi Beach attack – its deadliest mass shooting in decades. The scheme is the largest since the Port Arthur massacre in 1996, which left 35 people dead and prompted Australia to introduce world-leading gun control measures. Fifteen people were killed and dozens injured on Sunday when two gunmen, believed to have been motivated by “Islamic State ideology”, opened fire on a Jewish festival at the country’s most iconic beach. On Friday, police also said there was no ongoing reason to detain a group of men who were…

TikTok’s Chinese owner ByteDance has signed binding agreements with US and global investors to sell the majority of its business in America, TikTok’s boss told employees on Thursday. Half of the joint venture will be owned by a group of investors, including Oracle, Silver Lake and the Emirati investment firm MGX, according to a memo sent by chief executive Shou Zi Chew. The deal, which is set to close on 22 January, would end years of efforts by Washington to force ByteDance to sell its US operations over national security concerns. The deal is line with one unveiled in September,…

Violence erupted in Bangladesh following the death of a prominent leader of the youth movement that ousted former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Sharif Osman Hadi was shot by masked attackers while leaving a mosque in Dhaka last week and died of his injuries on Thursday while being treated in Singapore. The shooting came a day after Bangladeshi authorities announced a date for the first elections since the uprising in 2024, which Hadi had been planning to contest as an independent candidate. As news of his death emerged on Thursday, hundreds of his supporters gathered in a square in the capital…

A former NASCAR driver and his family were among the seven people killed in a plane crash at a regional airport in North Carolina, the car-racing organization has said. A highway patrol spokesman said people on the ground confirmed that Greg Biffle was among those who boarded the plane. The Cessna C550 crashed while landing at Statesville Regional Airport around 10:20 local time (15:20GMT), officials investigating the incident told reporters. “Greg was more than a champion driver, he was a beloved member of the NASCAR community, a fierce competitor, and a friend to so many,” Nascar said in a statement…

A Romanian court has sentenced Wiz Khalifa to nine months in prison for smoking cannabis on stage. The American rapper, real name Thomaz Cameron Jibril, admitted to smoking a joint during his performance at the Beach, Please! festival last year in Costinesti. A Romanian appeals court overturned an earlier fine of 3,600 Romanian lei (£619; $829) for drug possession and ruled the rapper must serve the sentence in custody. However he was sentenced in absentia, and it is unclear if Jibril is even in Romania – he was last seen on Tuesday, performing with Gunna in California. The BBC has…

Pope Leo named Bishop Aldon Ronald Hicks who, like the pope, is from the Chicago area and served in Latin America, as the next archbishop of New York. Bishop Hicks, 58, will lead one of the Roman Catholic Church’s most populous and important postings in the US. He replaces retiring Cardinal Timothy Dolan, 75, who was seen as a conservative with close ties to President Donald Trump. Hicks said he accepted his appointment, which was announced on Thursday, with “an open heart” and Dolan called it “an early Christmas gift” for New Yorkers. Last month, Hicks joined other bishops to…

There was a double tragedy when a 21-year-old diver died while trying to retrieve the body of another man who had drowned in a pool of water in Thegu area, Chaka, Nyeri County. Police said the incident occurred on the evening of December 17, at an abandoned quarry. According to the police, 65-year-old Samuel Kabiru was found drowned in the water at the quarry. The circumstances of the drowning of Kabiru are under probe, police said. When police were informed of the incident, they visited the scene and started to locate and retrieve the body. It was then that two…

David Munyua created history by becoming the first Kenyan to win at the Paddy Power World Darts Championship on Thursday, stunning Mike De Decker in his 3-2 comeback victory. Munyua had already created darting history by becoming the first representative from Kenya at Alexandra Palace, but went a step further with a momentous triumph against former World Grand Prix champion De Decker. The 30-year-old had trailed 2-0, but survived three match darts from the Belgian number one in the fourth set before holding his nerve to level the game at 2-2. Munyua, who qualified through the African Darts Group Qualifier,…

A jinxed man hacked his separated wife to death in an incident in Kabati, Muranga County. Pauline Warugu, 35, succumbed to her injuries in hospital after the attack on December 16 in Riandegwa area, police said. The deceased was with her mother, and they were headed to till in their local piece of land when the said assailant, who had trailed Warugu to the area, struck. He hit her in the head before escaping. She was rushed to Kenol hospital, where she was treated and later referred to Murang’a General Hospital where she was undergoing treatment before she succumbed to…

Police have mapped out notorious routes where they will deploy mobile courts to address cases where motorists flout traffic rules. Motorists flouting traffic rules during this festive season were told Thursday to expect to face instant justice with the deployment of mobile courts. Deputy Inspector General of Kenya Police Eliud Lagat revealed the police had mapped out hot spots where most motorists are likely to flout traffic rules. He said they have mobilised more personnel to be deployed to the places together with those from the judiciary. “We have mapped out the hot spots and we want to make sure…