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Riot police clash with students as education protests rage in France

3 October, 2026

KAUMI GAZETTE Premium Advertising Space PREMIUM · LEADERBOARD ADVERTISEMENT On Friday, a 17-year-old was arrested on suspicion of attempted homicide after protests in Belfort, north-eastern France, where a police officer was targeted.BBC Verify has now authenticated two videos that show the man, who was later identified as an officer by a minister, being beaten up

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Woman at centre of Cornell rape inquiry ‘failed’ by officials, says New York governor

2 October, 2026

KAUMI GAZETTE Premium Advertising Space PREMIUM · LEADERBOARD ADVERTISEMENT New York Governor Kathy Hochul has said the woman at the centre of the Cornell University rape case was “failed” at “every turn”. The woman, known as Jane Doe in legal documents, alleges she was drugged and raped by several men at a fraternity house in

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I’ve seen nearly 500 executions – but never one like Christa Pike’s

2 October, 2026

KAUMI GAZETTE Premium Advertising Space PREMIUM · LEADERBOARD ADVERTISEMENT He feels a particular responsibility to remember victims in his coverage and it’s especially disheartening when he writes a story about an execution that doesn’t make big news. “I feel bad for the victims in the case,” he said. “They are the forgotten folks. They always

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Captain Smit Machchhar: The ‘hero’ India pilot who was stabbed on Israel-bound flight

2 October, 2026

KAUMI GAZETTE Premium Advertising Space PREMIUM · LEADERBOARD ADVERTISEMENT Flydubai’s flight FZ1073 took off from Dubai International Airport in the United Arab Emirates at 03:05 GMT (07:05 local time) en route to Ben Gurion Airport in Israel.The flight was carrying at least 150 people, with Netanyahu saying “almost all” passengers were Israeli.The Israeli prime minister

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Watch: Emotional pilot recounts moment of Flydubai attack

2 October, 2026

KAUMI GAZETTE Premium Advertising Space PREMIUM · LEADERBOARD ADVERTISEMENT An Indian pilot who was attacked by his co-pilot on an Israel-bound Flydubai plane has received a call in his hospital bed from India PM Narendra Modi. Visibly emotional, Capt Smit Machchhar said he fought back because he could not allow everyone on the flight to

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I opened cockpit door of plane while being attacked, Indian pilot tells Modi

2 October, 2026

KAUMI GAZETTE Premium Advertising Space PREMIUM · LEADERBOARD ADVERTISEMENT Indian pilot Smit Machchhar has said he opened the cockpit door of the Israel-bound Flydubai plane to allow passengers to come in and halt its rapid descent.In a video call with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Capt Machchhar said he was on the ground and still

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Fortnite, Roblox, Minecraft and Steam must improve child safety, Australian report finds

2 October, 2026

KAUMI GAZETTE Premium Advertising Space PREMIUM · LEADERBOARD ADVERTISEMENT Australia’s online safety regulator has found “significant gaps” in how popular gaming platforms protect children online.In a new report it found inconsistent approaches in how Steam, Roblox, Fortnite and Minecraft implement child safety measures as research shows nine out of 10 children aged 8 to 17

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Flydubai attacker ‘underwent Islamist radical indoctrination’, Netanyahu says

2 October, 2026

KAUMI GAZETTE Premium Advertising Space PREMIUM · LEADERBOARD ADVERTISEMENT Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says investigations suggest the man who stabbed his fellow pilot and tried to take over a flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv had undergone “Islamist radical indoctrination”.The Flydubai plane plunged more than 17,000ft (5,200m) two hours into its journey on Wednesday,

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Renee Good: Family of US woman killed by ICE agent sues Trump officials

2 October, 2026

KAUMI GAZETTE Premium Advertising Space PREMIUM · LEADERBOARD ADVERTISEMENT The family of a woman who was killed by an immigration agent in Minneapolis has announced two lawsuits against the US government and members of the Trump administration.Renee Good, a US citizen, was shot to death by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer during a

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Christa Pike in critical condition after surviving two lethal injections, lawyer says

2 October, 2026

KAUMI GAZETTE Premium Advertising Space PREMIUM · LEADERBOARD ADVERTISEMENT Tennessee death row inmate Christa Pike is in “critical condition, receiving life-saving care” at hospital, after surviving two lethal injection attempts, leading the state’s governor to halt all executions for the year.”We don’t have a sense of her prognosis or much update on her health at

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Fires break out at French schools as students protest nationwide

2 October, 2026

KAUMI GAZETTE Premium Advertising Space PREMIUM · LEADERBOARD ADVERTISEMENT Fires have broken out at several schools in France, as students protest by blockading education institutions nationwide over school funding and studying conditions.Blazes were reported at two high schools in Nantes, western France, while another was filmed engulfing the entrance of a school in the northern

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What happened in failed execution of Christa Pike – and what next?

1 October, 2026

KAUMI GAZETTE Premium Advertising Space PREMIUM · LEADERBOARD ADVERTISEMENT In recent years, states have found some drugs needed for lethal injections harder to come by, because pharmaceutical companies have opposed the use of their products for such purposes.The Tennessee Department of Correction has not specifically addressed an allegation from Pike’s legal team that the pentobarbital

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Russian dissident Garry Kasparov says US warned him of danger to his life

1 October, 2026

KAUMI GAZETTE Premium Advertising Space PREMIUM · LEADERBOARD ADVERTISEMENT An exiled Russian opposition figure living in the US says he was warned by American and Lithuanian security services that his life was in danger.Former chess world champion Garry Kasparov said he was one of two dissidents told to take precautions, which he had done.His comments

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Cornell case spotlights ‘confusing’ web of systems for reporting campus assaults

1 October, 2026

KAUMI GAZETTE Premium Advertising Space PREMIUM · LEADERBOARD ADVERTISEMENT Typically, after a student reports an assault on campus, the university’s Title IX office determines whether the alleged behaviour could constitute a violation of policy. Eventually, both parties attend a hearing with a panel of faculty members or other mediators to present evidence and testimony in

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Wicknell Chivayo: Zimbabwean businessman and wife killed in helicopter crash

1 October, 2026

KAUMI GAZETTE Premium Advertising Space PREMIUM · LEADERBOARD ADVERTISEMENT Earlier, government spokesman Nick Mangwana confirmed the crash, saying the helicopter was carrying “a prominent businessman, three other passengers and two pilots”. “Current information indicates that there were no survivors in this crash,” Mangwana posted on X.Chivayo was the managing director of Intratrek Zimbabwe and had

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Aliko Dangote launches Kenya oil refinery amid land protest in Lamu

1 October, 2026

KAUMI GAZETTE Premium Advertising Space PREMIUM · LEADERBOARD ADVERTISEMENT Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote and Kenya’s President William Ruto have broken ground on a $16bn (£12bn) oil refinery in Lamu, on Kenya’s northern coast.Upon completion, the refinery is expected to process 700,000 barrels of crude oil a day, making it East Africa’s largest industrial project by

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Plummeting Israel flight like ‘rollercoaster’, says passenger

1 October, 2026

KAUMI GAZETTE Premium Advertising Space PREMIUM · LEADERBOARD ADVERTISEMENT A passenger on board Flight FZ1073, which fell 17,000ft (5,200m) in less than two minutes when a pilot apparently stabbed his co-pilot, told the BBC about his experience. The aircraft had been flying to Israel when the incident took place, which Almog Itali described as feeling

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‘Hero’ pilot stabbed by other pilot on Israel-bound plane, Israeli PM says

1 October, 2026

KAUMI GAZETTE Premium Advertising Space PREMIUM · LEADERBOARD ADVERTISEMENT No motive for the incident has been given and the pilot was under investigation in Saudi Arabia, Netanyahu told Fox News on Wednesday night, before he was expected to be taken back to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), where the flight took off from.Israel was “likely”

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US Supreme Court allows execution of Christa Pike to go ahead

1 October, 2026

KAUMI GAZETTE Premium Advertising Space PREMIUM · LEADERBOARD ADVERTISEMENT The US Supreme Court has cleared the way for Tennessee inmate Christa Pike to be executed, overturning a last-minute reprieve.The killing by lethal injection was scheduled for Wednesday morning before judges from the Sixth Circuit Appeals court halted the execution. Tennessee’s attorney general then immediately requested

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Flydubai passenger describes putting attacker in chokehold after cockpit stabbing

1 October, 2026

KAUMI GAZETTE Premium Advertising Space PREMIUM · LEADERBOARD ADVERTISEMENT Passengers on a flight to Israel have recounted how they subdued a pilot after he stabbed the other pilot and appeared to be trying to disable the plane, while others described the “terrifying” moment they thought they would die.Appearing in a bloodstained shirt after the ordeal,

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UK-France ‘one in, one out’ migrant scheme scrapped

1 October, 2026

KAUMI GAZETTE Premium Advertising Space PREMIUM · LEADERBOARD ADVERTISEMENT The UK government has announced the “one in, one out” agreement with France to send back some migrants who cross the Channel has been scrapped.The pilot scheme allowed the UK to return some small boat arrivals while agreeing to take in the same number of people

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Execution of US murderer Christa Pike halted shortly before it was due to happen

30 September, 2026

KAUMI GAZETTE Premium Advertising Space PREMIUM · LEADERBOARD ADVERTISEMENT The execution of Tennessee inmate Christa Pike has been halted just over an hour before it was due to happen.Pike, 50, has been awaiting execution since she was convicted and sentenced to death in 1996 for the murder of Colleen Slemmer.In their ruling on Wednesday, judges

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Dozens hurt and hundreds arrested in wave of French school protests

30 September, 2026

KAUMI GAZETTE Premium Advertising Space PREMIUM · LEADERBOARD ADVERTISEMENT Four-hundred-and-forty people, mostly minors, have been arrested and 76 injured as a wave of school protests over overcrowded classes and teacher shortages spreads across France, officials say.The demonstrations began in Paris last week but have escalated to cities including Dijon, Lyon, Strasbourg, Lille and Marseille, with

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Russia launches largest attack on Ukraine energy infrastructure since spring

30 September, 2026

KAUMI GAZETTE Premium Advertising Space PREMIUM · LEADERBOARD ADVERTISEMENT Russia has launched the largest attack on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure since the spring, primarily targeting Kyiv and the surrounding region, Ukrainian Prime Minister Serhiy Koretskyi has said.At least six people were killed and 33 others injured across the country in the overnight attacks, including a child

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