A so-called “forest of evil” in Kenya reportedly used by criminals as a hideout and is also at the center of a bloody tribal conflict is now off-limits to civilians, according to the African country’s government. The Ministry of Interior and Coordination, which recently announced the ban, said it will flush out criminals in Marsabit Forest. “We will close all the entry and exit points of Marsabit Forest so that we will be able to know the routes they use to have their way into the forest,” said Marsabit County commissioner Evans Achoki. A map showing Marsabit National Park in…
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Parked behind 50 other cars in front of a gas station in Bulawayo’s Central Business District, early on a Friday morning, 30-year-old Henry Chinula flicks through a magazine he keeps in the car to kill time while waiting for his turn to fill up. Outside, a middle-aged man with dreadlocks and a brown jacket unexpectedly leans near his closed window and offers a greeting. Chinula hesitantly lowers the window just below his eyes in case it is a distraction for a robbery. To his surprise, the man starts mumbling about exhaust pipe dust and dishonest mechanics who steal from oblivious…
HARARE, Zimbabwe—Parked behind 50 other cars in front of a gas station in Bulawayo’s Central Business District, early on a Friday morning, 30-year-old Henry Chinula flicks through a magazine he keeps in the car to kill time while waiting for his turn to fill up. Outside, a middle-aged man with dreadlocks and a brown jacket unexpectedly leans near his closed window and offers a greeting. Chinula hesitantly lowers the window just below his eyes in case it is a distraction for a robbery. To his surprise, the man starts mumbling about exhaust pipe dust and dishonest mechanics who steal from…
Rep. John Lewis was “forceful vision of freedom,” said former President Barack Obama in the eulogy he gave at the Democratic congressman and civil rights activist’s funeral on Thursday. The funeral was held in Atlanta, Georgia at Ebenezer Baptist Church, a historical African American sanctuary that dates back 134 years and where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s funeral was held in 1968. In addition to Obama, former U.S. presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush as well as hundreds of mourners attended to pay their respects to the son of Alabama sharecroppers who became a civil rights icon. As…
When the Covid-19 pandemic hit Los Angeles earlier this year and all churches in town were ordered to close, the Rev. Robert A. Schuller had only to look back to his roots for an answer of what to do: resurrect the drive-in church service. In 1955, one year after Schuller was born, his father, Robert H. Schuller, began preaching at a drive-in movie theater in Garden Grove, California, climbing up onto the roof of the snack bar to address the congregation. The sermon’s style was in line with the times, as car culture was taking over and drive-in movies became…
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Mexico’s president said his 197-foot-long Boeing 757-225 TP-01, which boasts an office with a treadmill, two kitchens, a marble bathroom, luxury bedroom and a press room for 42 people, is an insult to his country’s poor and has to go. Mexico’s government under former President Felipe Calderon bought the plane, designed to carry 300 passengers but custom-built to carry just 80, in November 2012 for more than $28.4 million. The double-aisled plane called “Servant of the Nation” was emblazoned with the Mexican national colors of red, white and green. Former President Enrique Pena Nieto first used it for more than…
Three litters with a total of 16 adorable wild kittens with large, bright blue eyes were born at the zoo in Novosibirsk, Siberia earlier this month, the zoo announced in a July 18 post on the Russian social media network VK.com. An exact date of their births was not provided. “This year, last month, three females gave birth, the first one on June 1, 2020, the second one on June 7, the third one on June 11,” Tatyana Pevneva, head of the International Cooperation Department at Novosibirsk Zoo, told Zenger News. One female has three kittens, the other has…
“Cow tipping” is nothing new. But now comes an internet craze called “cow scaring.” Known as the “Kulikitaka” TikTok challenge, it’s the latest in a series of click-bait competitions to go viral. “Kulikitaka” is the song by the Dominican musician Tono Rosario that’s used to accompany the videos of those taking part in the challenge. Some such competitions go mainstream, like the “ALS Ice Bucket Challenge” in 2014. But while that throw-down was rooted in a good cause—to promote awareness of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, known as ALS, and raise funds to fight the disease—the same can’t be said for “cow…
The antitrust suit against Microsoft more than two decades ago should have been a warning to today’s tech giants. The chief executives of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google came under fire Wednesday for their alleged anticompetitive behavior, hearkening back to when the federal government tried to break up Microsoft. A federal judge ruled in 2000 that Microsoft should split into two companies as punishment for its anticompetitive practices, but the decision was later overruled and the government and Microsoft settled. “It rattled the whole industry. It had a chilling effect on the ability of the company to move forward…