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Typically twins account for around 3% of live births in the US – no wonder headteacher Tamatha Bibbo described the event as “quite unusual”. Twenty-three sets of twins have graduated from a US middle school, making up about 10% of the eighth-grade year group. The identical and fraternal twins graduated from Pollard Middle School in…
An excessive heat warning has been issued by Greece’s weather service from Wednesday morning to 8pm on Thursday, with forecasts saying Athens will see conditions just below 40C (104F). Greece has shuttered tourist hotspots and schools across Athens as the first heatwave of the summer strikes. Temperatures were tipped to hit highs up 43C (109F)…
Gunmen have killed the female mayor of a town in Mexico just hours after the country celebrated the election of Claudia Sheinbaum as the nation’s first woman president. Yolanda Sánchez was shot in the town of Cotija, which she had governed since September 2021. She was the first woman to be elected to the post….
A jury has found the 77-year-old guilty after a high-profile trial. It comes just six months before he goes head to head with Joe Biden in a bid to return to the White House. Donald Trump has become the first former US president to be criminally convicted. In a historic decision, a New York jury…
Hundreds of people demonstrated in Tunis on Sunday in support of President Kais Saied amid widespread criticism at home and abroad after a wave of arrests that included journalists, activists and lawyers. The European Union, France and the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights expressed concern at the arrests and at a police raid on…
A sleepy town in the Philippines has been thrust into the national spotlight after its mayor was accused of being a Chinese agent. Bamban is a nondescript town in the country’s rice-growing flood plains north of the capital, Manila. Its mayor, Alice Guo is the picture of a young, on-the-go public servant. Bespectacled, with long…
Google on Tuesday said it would introduce AI-generated answers to online queries, in one of the biggest changes to its world-leading search engine in 25 years. “I’m excited to announce that we will begin launching this fully revamped experience, ‘AI overviews,’ to everyone in the US this week,” Google chief executive Sundar Pichai said at…
The Ministry of Interior and National Administration has announced 12 more deaths, bringing the total fatalities as a result of floods to 289. It also announced that 75 Kenyans are still missing, while another 188 have so far sustained injuries. A total of 57,120 households have been displaced and this has directly affected approximately 285,600…
Ambassador Martin Kimani, has concluded his tenure at the influential diplomatic post in New York after serving more than three years as Kenya’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations (UN). Ambassador Kimani confirmed Monday that he had completed his tour of duty, thanking former President Uhuru Kenyatta and incumbent William Ruto for allowing him to…
At least 2000 schools across the country will not open on Monday as planned, as they are either inaccessible due to flooding or infrastructure has been damaged by the recent heavy rains. This was revealed by Deputy Government Spokesperson Mwanaisha Chidzuga on Monday while appearing on Radio Citizen. Chidzuga said students in the affected schools…
