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DOJ Drops Maxwell Transcripts and Epstein Files —300 Pages of Secrets Revealed

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The Kenya Times ~ Trending, Breaking News and Videos DOJ Drops Maxwell Transcripts and Epstein Files —300 Pages of Secrets Revealed The Justice Department on Friday released transcripts and audio files of two days of interviews with Ghislaine Maxwell, conducted last month at her federal prison. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche led the sessions, which covered Maxwell’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein and her knowledge of figures linked to him. Officials also provided the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee with an initial set of records tied to Epstein. The files, described by the panel as numbering in the thousands of pages, included more than 300 pages from Maxwell’s interviews. The release followed a subpoena approved in July after bipartisan pressure for access to the so-called “Epstein Files.” Committee Chair James Comer said the volume of material delayed the handover beyond the committee’s initial deadline set for earlier that week.   Democrats on the commi...
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‘Uncle, are you listening?’ Woman wheels corpse into Brazil bank to sign for loan

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A woman brought a 68-year-old man in a wheelchair into a bank branch and tried to get him to sign for a loan, but he had been dead for hours, Brazilian police said on Wednesday, April 17. Erika Vieira Nunes wheeled the cadaver into the bank in a Rio suburb on Tuesday and told the teller the man wanted a loan for 17,000 reais ($3,250 - approximately Sh432250), security camera video showed. She held a pen and moved his hand forward to no response. "Uncle, are you listening? You need to sign," she said, according to the security video, suggesting she sign for him. "He doesn't say anything, that's just how he is," she said, adding, "If you're not okay, I'm going to take you to the hospital." Bank staff became suspicious as the man's head kept falling back when the woman stopped holding it and they called the police, who arrested her on the spot on fraud charges. The corpse was taken to the morgue. Her lawyer argued that the man died at the...
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Google staff protest company’s $1.2b contract with Israel

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Dozens of Google employees in New York and California held demonstrations and sit-in protests on Tuesday (April 16) to voice their objections against the company's billion-dollar contract with Israel. Google staff were demanding that their company drop its $1.2-billion multi-year project named Project Nimbus which provides cloud and AI services to Israel's government and defence ministry. Google shares the contract with Amazon, another tech company. Tuesday's protests were organised by a group called No Tech for Apartheid, which alleges that Project Nimbus is aiding Israel in its military operations in Gaza. On the X platform late Tuesday, the group said Google had ordered the arrest of several workers who staged sit-ins at Google offices. Google did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the protests. Production: Tom Rowe, Sophia Soo from Nairobi News https://ift.tt/SU59KJ4 via IFTTT
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Gachagua Admits to Abusing Alcohol Before his Salvation

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Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua while speaking in Rift Valley region on Monday, May 29 said he used to abuse alcohol before he got saved. The second in command who presided over a conference on ending alcoholism and drug abuse stated that his life changed for the better after quitting alcohol. “The President, [Interior Cabinet Secretary Prof Kithure] Kindiki, and the rest of us, none has a problem with alcohol. I must admit I used to drink a lot before I got saved and since I stopped drinking my things have been very good,” Gachagua said. He further urged people drinking alcohol to follow in his footsteps and quit the vice. “That is how I am deputy president. I invite those who drink to consider dropping it and maybe your things will get better.” Stated the DP. Also Read:  DP Gachagua to Organize a Small Conference to Address the Issue of Alcoholism in Central Region Moreover, DP Gachagua put on notice law enforcement officers whom he alleged have been aiding the menac...
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Hollywood star Peter Macon to coach Kenyan actors in film masterclass

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Kenyan actors will get a chance to interact with Hollywood star Peter Macon when he visits Kenya in September this year. The 'Kingdom of the Planet of Apes' actor will be in Kenya to lead a film and theatre masterclass organised by YORA. The Emmy Award winner portrays Raka in the high-profile science fiction film 'Kingdom of the Planet of Apes', which was released in May this year and has so far grossed $396 million at the box office.Macon has been a professional actor for the past 35 years, and as he prepares to return to Africa for the second time, he says his years as an actor have taught him to take a pragmatic approach to his career. “I have learnt to expect the unexpected which I think is a good thing. It’s good surprise albeit strange when you get called up for roles never knowing quite what type they will be. I think it's kind of just part of my story and my journey,” he says. During his masterclass in Nairobi, Macon is also expected to share knowledge on w...
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Mali Investigators See Breakthrough in Murder Mystery

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Investigations into a string of beheadings in southern Mali that have shocked the Sahel nation have scored a breakthrough, judicial and police sources said on Monday. Ten people in the cotton-growing town of Fana have been decapitated since 2018, sparking fears of ritual killings. “We have arrested the main suspect,” local prosecutor Boubacar Moussa Diarra told AFP by phone. He is a 42-year-old unemployed Malian man with no fixed address, he said. “The details he gave of the crimes correspond to the nature of the murders,” he said. Also Read:  Mali Gets More Warplanes, Helicopters from Russia A police official who declined to be named revealed the suspect had been arrested a year ago but had only confessed last week to the grisly murders. Neither the prosecutor nor the police official revealed the possible motive for the crimes. The victims included a former soldier, a housewife, a five-year-old albino child and a two-year-old girl, and had apparently nothing in common. ...
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