Rebecca Cheptegei’s family demand justice after death of runner set on fire by former partner
- Olympian sustained 80% burns during attack in Kenya
- Police say former boyfriend attacked her amid dispute
Thu 5 Sep 2024 15.10 BST
The family of a Ugandan athlete who died in Kenya after allegedly being set on fire by her former boyfriend has called for justice and legal action against the culprit.
“I have a lot of grief because I’ve lost my daughter. I seek your help so that this person who has killed my daughter can be prosecuted,” Joseph Cheptegei, the father of Rebecca Cheptegei, told reporters at the hospital where she died.
Munich shooting at Israeli Consulate, police suspect terror
Investigators in Munich believe the incident was likely an attempted terrorist attack. Police shot and killed a man who had fired on them with a rifle near the Israeli Consulate and a Nazi-era museum in the city.
Police and prosecutors said on Thursday afternoon that they were working on the assumption of an attempted terrorist attack near the Israeli Consulate in Munch earlier that morning.
"Currently at least we are working on the assumption of an attempted terrorist attack, also in connection with the Consulate General of Israel, although the focal point of the running investigations is the motivation of the suspect," Munich's police and public prosecutors' office said in a joint statement.
Bavaria's specialist counterterrorist unit had taken the lead in the investigations, they said.
Haiti expands state of emergency over gang violence to whole country
Haiti has expanded its state of emergency to cover the entire nation’s territory, a spokesperson for Prime Minister Garry Conille said on Wednesday, as the Caribbean country battles violent gangs that have taken over much of the capital and started expanding into nearby regions.
Haiti’s populous Ouest department, where the capital Port-au-Prince is located, was put under a state of emergency on March 3 under the administration of Conille’s predecessor Ariel Henry, as a dramatic escalation in violence paralyzed the capital and thousands of inmates escaped in two prison breaks.
Okinawa police swiftly report sex crime based on revised protocol
THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
September 5, 2024 at 16:46 JST
Police informed the Okinawa prefectural government on Sept. 5 about a sexual assault case sent to prosecutors that day, the first such notification under a revised communication policy concerning sex crimes involving U.S. service members.
A U.S. Marine in his 20s, stationed in Okinawa Prefecture, is suspected of sexually assaulting a woman in the prefecture in June, sources said.
His case was sent to prosecutors specifically on suspicion of nonconsensual sex resulting in injuries.
The suspect is in U.S. custody, according to the prefectural government.
What was Netanyahu’s map and ‘plan for Gaza’ all about?
On September 2, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu went on TV to talk about the war on Gaza.
After the Palestinian group Hamas led an operation on October 7, during which 1,139 people in Israel died and another 250 or so were taken captive, Israel launched a war on Gaza, killing more than 40,000 Palestinians there.
ICC chief prosecutor defends Netanyahu arrest warrant in BBC interview
The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has told the BBC that justice must be seen to be done after seeking an arrest warrant for Israel's prime minister and defence minister.
Karim Khan said it was important to show the court would hold all nations to the same standard in relation to alleged war crimes. He also welcomed the new UK government's decision to drop its opposition to the arrest warrants.
“There's a difference of tone and I think of substance in relation to international law by the new government. And I think that's welcome,” he told Political Thinking with Nick Robinson.
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