NAIROBI: A Kenyan court has sentenced a 24-year-old beauty queen to death for murdering her boyfriend by stabbing him 25 times, drawing criticism from rights groups who called the punishment “inhumane”, reports AFP. Ruth Kamande, who won a prison beauty pageant while awaiting trial, slashed…

WASHINGTON: A tourist boat capsized and sank Thursday during a fierce storm on a lake in Missouri, killing at least 11 people, the local sheriff said, reports AFP. The incident on Table Rock Lake that occurred as thunderstorms rumbled through the US Midwest left another seven people hospitalized while…

BERLIN: Libya’s prime minister said yesterday he would not allow the EU to set up asylum processing centres in his country, in a new setback for European leaders seeking to curb new migrant arrivals, reports AFP. “We are strictly against Europe officially placing illegal migrants who are…

BRUSSELS: NATO insisted yesterday that every member state is covered by its “all for one, one for all” collective defence pledge, after US President Donald Trump appeared to undercut the alliance’s core commitment, reports AFP. Trump added to the uproar over his summit with Russian…

SINGAPORE: Hackers have stolen the health records of 1.5 million Singaporeans including Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, authorities said yesterday, with the leader specifically targeted in the city-state’s biggest ever data breach, reports AFP. Singapore’s health and information ministries…

SEOUL: Disgraced former South Korean president Park Geun-hye was convicted of charges including illegally receiving funds from the country’s spy agency on Friday and given eight more years in prison, on top of her current term, reports AFP. Park, the South’s first female president, was impeached…

PARIS: President Emmanuel Macron, trying to curb what has become the most damaging scandal of his presidency, on Friday fired a top security aide who has been taken into custody after videos emerged showing him strike a young man during a demonstration in Paris in May, reports AFP. The Elysee Palace…