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Kenya holds a memorial service for 16 victims of last month's girls school fire
Jun 12, 2026 - World 
Hundreds of mourners gathered in Kenya’s central town of Gilgil for a memorial service to honor the lives of 16 students who died in a school fire last month that police said was caused by arson
‘Spy turtles’ and ‘spy fish’ being used to monitor Chinese waters, Beijing claims
Jun 12, 2026 - World 
Ministry says animals fitted with sensors by foreign agencies collect sensitive sea data, in ‘invisible secret war’China’s ministry of state security has claimed that foreign espionage and intelligence agencies are using innovative new methods to monitor the country’s waters, including deploying “spy” animals fitted with sensors.In a post on the Chinese platform WeChat on Friday, the ministry warned that an “invisible secret war” was quietly playing out in the seas around China as foreign agencies were collecting sensitive data “through a variety of new spying devices” to produce underwater maps that pose a “serious threat to our national security”. Continue reading...
Ahead of G7, Carney softens tone toward Trump with trade talks at stake
Jun 12, 2026 - World 
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney became a symbol of middle power resistance after a celebrated speech earlier this year
Once beset by power outages, Puerto Ricans also hit with severe water shortages
Jun 12, 2026 - World 
Thousands of Puerto Ricans are struggling with water shortages so severe that the governor of the U.S. territory has activated the National Guard and emergency responders are fielding calls every day
Disaster drills helped prevent more deaths when powerful quake hit the Philippines
Jun 12, 2026 - World 
Philippine officials say that years of disaster-preparedness drills helped prevent a larger casualty toll when one of the strongest earthquakes in 50 years struck the south and left 55 people dead with 31 others still missing
