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José Bautista has an estimated net worth of $45 million. The Dominican former professional baseball player built his fortune during a 15-year Major League Baseball career, most notably with the Toronto Blue Jays. Known by his nickname…
Edwin Encarnación has an estimated net worth of $40 million. The retired Dominican professional baseball player built his fortune during a 15-year Major League Baseball career that ran from 2005 to 2020. Encarnación earned an estimated…
It was a scene few expected to see in wartime Ukraine: a gunfight between two state security agencies on the streets of the capital. On the morning of September 2, 2026, a confrontation between Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) and military…
An 18-year-old inmate serving time outside Paris has been formally charged after investigators discovered a chilling list inside his prison cell. One of the names on that list? Kylian Mbappé. The discovery has sent shockwaves through…
It sounds like the plot of an outback thriller, but for a property owner outside Blackall in rural Queensland, it is a very real and costly nightmare. Between February and May 2026, thieves made off with approximately 5,500 Dorper sheep…
If you are in Lagos, Abuja, or any other Nigerian city where Uber was a household name, you might have opened the app this morning and found something missing. As of today, September 2, 2026, Uber has officially shut down its ride-hailing…
After more than nine months without stepping foot on solid ground, the crew of the USS Abraham Lincoln finally got what they have been waiting for. The aircraft carrier pulled into Laem Chabang port in eastern Thailand on Wednesday,…
US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth is under fire in Canada for a social media post that appears to mock members of the country’s cadet youth programme. Hegseth posted the image, taken from the social media account for a local training…
The Dutch central bank (DNB) has confirmed that billions of dollars in gold has been taken out of north America and relocated to London, citing “increasing geopolitical unrest”. DNB said on Wednesday that 86 tonnes of gold had been removed…
If you haven’t been paying close attention to Central America, here’s the short version: Nicaragua just told the world it’s done with elections, and the United States is not taking it lying down. Let’s rewind a bit, because this didn’t…
The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) has received a fleet of operational vehicles donated by the United Kingdom Government to strengthen Kenya’s fight against human trafficking, migrant smuggling and other cross-border crimes.…
On September 2, 2026, U.S. President Donald Trump made a provocative suggestion on his Truth Social platform: rename the strategically vital Strait of Hormuz as the “Trump Strait.” Here are the verified facts surrounding this claim. In a…
Four Chinese nationals were arrested in Nairobi following investigations into a sophisticated fraud scheme involving SIM swapping and money laundering, after a businesswoman’s mobile lines were hijacked and used to receive illicit funds.…
The prosecution arraigned three more suspects, including a police officer following the murder of Dr Victoria Nthunya Mutiso. Dr Mutiso was shot on July 29, 2026 in Upper Hill, Kilimani sub-County, Nairobi County. The suspects are Police…
Trump administration efforts to force change in the handling of election ballots may be facing a bigger hurdle than the cross-country court challenges and resistance: Election officials insist it is simply too late for them to even try to…
A remote game server is a specialized platform that hosts, manages, and delivers online casino games to players through gambling websites and applications. Instead of installing every game within a casino’s own infrastructure, operators…
President William Ruto has said the government has set aside nearly Sh2.5 billion to equip County Aggregation and Industrial Parks (CAIPs) established across all 47 counties. Ruto said the investment is aimed at strengthening local…
President William Ruto has directed the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) to restore the Sh2.5 million benchmark for general containerised consolidated cargo, reversing a recent increase to Sh3.2 million. Ruto issued the directive on…
The Inspector General of Police, Douglas Kanja, has ordered investigations into the alleged kidnapping of a Standard Group associate editor, Alex Kiprotich, in Gilgil. The move follows reports concerning the alleged incident, with the NPS…
Sara Netanyahu, the wife of the Israeli prime minister, has claimed an opposition figure was aware of the plan for Hamas’s October 7, 2023 attack before it happened. Her remarks, which triggered outrage across Israel’s opposition,…
Brazilian presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro was acquitted Tuesday of a possible violation of electoral law after he broadcast a deepfake video of his father, former president Jair Bolsonaro. A left-wing coalition supporting the…
Mexican soldiers killed an accused drug cartel leader with a three-million-dollar US bounty on his head, the government announced Tuesday. The suspect, Luis Enrique Barragan, 39, was a leader of a group called Cartel de Los Reyes, a…
Political leaders and top political parties have called for expeditious action to apprehend the perpetrators behind the shocking abduction of Standard Group Associate Editor Alex Kiprotich. Kiprotich was accosted by armed men along the…
The Kenya Urban Roads Authority (KURA) has announced a partial closure of Outer Ring Road on Saturday, September 5, 2026. In a notice, KURA said the closure will run from 12 p.m. to 3 p.m. to facilitate the removal of a gantry along the…
