United Nations
No delay for Kenya trial
The Security Council refused to delay the International Criminal Court trial of Kenya’s president and his deputy on crimes against humanity on Friday, opening a rift with the African Union, which lobbied intensively for the yearlong postponement. The African-sponsored resolution to delay the trials of Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta and Deputy President William Ruto was voted down with seven “yes” votes and eight abstentions — short of the minimum nine “yes” votes needed for approval. The African Union argued that the trial delay was essential because Kenya needs its leaders to help fight al-Shabaab terrorists in Somalia and at home.
United states
Reward for Benghazi plotters
The Department of State on Friday said it has quietly offered a US$10 million reward since January for information leading to those behind the attack on Sept. 11 last year that killed the ambassador to Libya and three other Americans in Benghazi. The men died when militants believed to have ties to al-Qaeda affiliates attacked a loosely guarded diplomatic compound and a nearby CIA annex in the eastern Libyan city on the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the US.
France
Suspected cannibal ate heart
A suspected cannibal killed a 90-year-old in a sleepy southern village then pulled his heart and tongue out with the apparent intention of eating them with white beans, sources close to the case said on Friday. The young, homeless man slipped into his victim’s house at the edge of the isolated Nouilhan hamlet on Thursday evening, grabbed a metal object in the barn and smashed the old man’s skull, a source close to the probe said. According to his initial statements to investigators, the 26-year-old, who was responding “to messages or voices in his head,” set fire to the body and then extracted his victim’s heart and tongue to cook and eat them, added the source, who refused to be named, but had seen the crime scene.
Mexico
Mass graves found
Authorities have unearthed 24 bodies in clandestine graves in regions beset by drug cartel violence, officials said on Friday. Six bodies were discovered on Thursday buried in a lime tree orchard on the outskirts of the Pacific resort of Acapulco, in the southwestern state of Guerrero, local officials said. The 18 other were found in eight pits near the town of La Barca, at the border between the western states of Jalisco and Michoacan, an agent from the federal prosecutor’s office said. Michoacan State is a bastion of the Knights Templar drug cartel, which has been involved in turf wars against the Jalisco New Generation gang.
United States
Man charged over shooting
A white man who shot a black woman who knocked on his door after a late-night car crash in Michigan was charged with murder on Friday in a case that has stirred racial tensions. The death of Renisha McBride, 19, sparked protests and comparisons to Trayvon Martin, the black teenager whose killing last year at the hands of a neighborhood watch volunteer in Florida provoked a national debate on racism and “stand your ground” self-defense laws. The evidence showed that homeowner Theodore Wafer, 54, shot McBride through a locked screen door after opening the storm door, prosecutors said. Wafer was charged with second-degree murder, manslaughter and use of a gun during a felony.
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The Israeli military has demolished entire villages as part of its invasion of south Lebanon, rigging homes with explosives and razing them to the ground in massive remote detonations. The Guardian reviewed three videos posted by the Israeli military and on social media, which showed Israel carrying out mass detonations in the villages of Taybeh, Naqoura and Deir Seryan along the Israel-Lebanon border. Lebanese media has reported more mass detonations in other border villages, but satellite imagery was not readily available to verify these claims. The demolitions came after Israeli Minister of Defense Israel Katz called for the destruction of
A US YouTuber who caused outrage for filming himself kissing a statue commemorating Korean wartime sex slaves has been sentenced to six months in prison, a court in Seoul said yesterday. Johnny Somali, 25, gained notoriety several years ago for recording himself doing a series of provocative stunts in South Korea and Japan, and streaming them on platforms such as YouTube and Twitch. South Korean authorities indicted Somali — whose real name is Ramsey Khalid Ismael — in 2024 on public order violations and obstruction of business, and banned him from leaving the country. “The court has sentenced him to six months in
The death toll from a shooting in western Afghanistan rose to 11 on Saturday, after gunmen targeted civilians at a picnic spot in Herat, the provincial authority said. Bullet marks were visible on a wall of the Sayed Mohammad Agha Shia shrine, while bloodstains marked a blanket abandoned at the scene. “Eleven people have been recorded dead and eight others wounded from Friday’s incident, with the condition of two of the wounded reported as critical,” Herat’s information office said in a statement. The update raises a toll of seven killed provided on Friday by the Afghan Ministry of Interior Affairs
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