President Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera has met with Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, in Abuja, Nigeria, where he is attending the 32nd Afrexim Bank Annual Summit. Hot on the heels of another high-level meeting with billionaire Tony Elumelu, Chakwera’s engagement with Dangote marks a deliberate strategy to court heavyweight African investors capable of shifting Malawi’s economic…
A suspect in the bombing at a California fertility clinic who was found dead in a federal detention center this week died by suicide, Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s Office records show. Daniel Park, 32, was found unresponsive in his cell at the Metropolitan Detention Center around 7:30 a.m. Tuesday and pronounced dead at a…
Authorities in Pierce County, Washington, used a lasso to pull a man from a pond after he allegedly chased his father with a chainsaw over the weekend, according to bodycam footage released on Monday. Neighbors reported that a 32-year-old man was running after his father with a chainsaw in a yard, according to the Pierce…
James Chater and Mike Wendling BBC News, Sydney and Minneapolis Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office/Reuters Police said suspect Vance Luther Boelter was armed at the time of his arrest A 57-year-old man has been arrested in the US state of Minnesota on suspicion of killing a Democratic state lawmaker and her husband. The arrest on Sunday…
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Kenya’s police chief has suspended the head of a police station and all officers who were on duty when a man who had been detained for “false publication” died in custody. Albert Ojwang was arrested for a post on X in the western town of Homa Bay and then driven 350km (220 miles) to the…
