WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States and Russia completed their biggest prisoner swap in post-Soviet history on Thursday, with Moscow releasing Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and Michigan corporate security executive Paul Whelan in a multinational deal that set some two dozen people free, according to officials in Turkey, where the exchange took place. The trade followed years…
The Mountain Journal Kiru Tea Factory Chairman Chege Kirundi was re-elected Board member to represent zone three zone. The BM election convened at Kanyenya ini tea factory saw Kirundi garnering 14 votes against the Chairman at Githambo tea factory Mr Joseph Karanu’s eight votes. The zone BM election was postponed last week after it emerged…
The Mountain Journal Ground is set for the KTDA Holding election with a focus on the incumbent Enos Njeru and Gatundu South MP Gabriel Kagombe. The two front runners have been holding strategic meetings with their supporters ahead of Friday’s election in Nairobi. Njeru from Zone Six was re-elected unopposed as the board member while…
The Mountain Journal Farmers Party Chairman Irungu Nyakera has supported the proposal to regulate the religious space. He however said the move to regulate them was timely and necessary after seeing doomsday cults taking over the religious space. Nyakera, also the KEMSA Chairman said there have been various failed attempts to regulate the churches and…
By BBC The death toll from the massive landslides that have hit the southern Indian state of Kerala has now crossed 158, with officials saying 187 people are still missing. Rescue operations, that had halted late Tuesday night, resumed on Wednesday morning. The landslides are the worst disaster to hit the state since 2018, when…
The Mountain Journal Tea farmers from Kirinyaga and Embu counties are pleading with Gatundu South MP Gabriel Kagombe to concentrate on his parliamentary duties and stop meddling in the tea sector affairs. The farmers said he should resign from the MP position if want to contest the KTDA Holding chairmanship position. The tea farmers from KTDA…
Graeme Baker BBC News, Washington Donald Trump on Monday defended his running mate’s claims that “childless cat ladies” had destroyed American values, but also said he believed adults without children were just as good as parents. JD Vance’s 2021 comment that Vice-President Kamala Harris and other Democrats were “a bunch of childless cat ladies miserable…
By Peter Ngure Recently, a friend of mine came worried to us; ‘I swear I don’t know what to do with this child’, she lamented in pain referring to her 17-year-old daughter.The reason was that our friend had asked her daughter why she came home past her curfew hours and the daughter asked ‘What time…
By Tom Geoghegan/BBC News Donald Trump has agreed to be interviewed by the FBI as part of its investigation into the assassination attempt at his rally in Pennsylvania earlier this month. In a call with reporters on Monday, the FBI did not give a date for the interview, but said it would be “a standard…
Story by Abdulrazaq Adebayo With few days to the planned nationwide hunger protests in the country, Nigerians have been warned against copying the recent protests in Kenya, as it could have unintended and detrimental consequences. Ambassador Ibrahim Tajudeen Shola issued the warning in a statement in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, on Sunday. While asserting…
