At the moment’s high tales
Protesters scatter as Kenyan police spray water canon at them throughout a protest over proposed tax hikes in a finance invoice in downtown Nairobi, Kenya, on Tuesday.
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Lethal protests broke out yesterday in Kenya’s capital Nairobi towards a proposed tax hike meant to repay the nation’s enormous international debt. Police opened hearth with reside ammunition and tear fuel at younger protesters as they tried to storm the Parliament constructing in Nairobi. A number of individuals had been killed and others injured.
- 🎧 Journalist Emmanuel Igunza noticed the violence firsthand. He tells Up First that these youth-led protests began out as opposition to a proposed invoice looking for to lift about $2.9 billion in taxes. However protesters say the taxes will make life a lot more durable because it targets objects like sanitary pads and diapers; there’s additionally a rise in gasoline taxes. That is all occurring as the primary U.N.-back contingent of Kenyan law enforcement officials arrived in Haiti to try to restore regulation and order. Kenyan President William Ruto, has styled himself internationally as a powerful ally of the West, however there’s a native notion that “he is doing the soiled work for the U.S. in Haiti whereas his personal yard is on hearth,” Igunza says.
In the meantime, within the U.S.: The Veepstakes is on. The primary presidential debate could also be high of thoughts now, however the Republican Nationwide Conference is lower than three weeks away. This leaves former President Donald Trump little time to choose a operating mate. He’s treating the search very like his previous days internet hosting “The Apprentice” — and vice chairman nominee hopefuls are speeding to make their ultimate gross sales pitch.
- 🎧 NPR’s Jeongyoon Han, who’s been following his VP search, says on Up First that Trump is doing all of this simply to indicate that he can. Han spoke with Republican strategist Ron Bonjean who advised her that Trump is deliberately stoking intrigue across the search. She says 5 candidates are rising to the highest of the vice chairman listing in her evaluation as a result of they’re all attempting to indicate Trump that they’re loyal and prepared to defend him. She provides that they are all comparatively younger and have lengthy careers forward of them, so that they’re already trying into 2028.
Wall Avenue Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich’s trial started behind closed doorways immediately within the Russian metropolis of Yekaterinburg. Gershkovich faces as much as 20 years in jail if the court docket finds him responsible of espionage prices that he, his employer and the U.S. authorities strongly deny.
- 🎧 NPR’s Charles Maynes stories that the press was briefly allowed into the courtroom earlier than the proceedings began. In a video revealed by state media, Gershkovich appeared with head shaven, in a padlocked glass cage. He smiled briefly and waved to the digital camera earlier than journalists had been escorted out. Maynes provides that Gershkovich’s employer mentioned he was totally accredited and vetted by the Russian International Ministry on the time of his arrest. Maynes explains, “He, like anybody working in Russia as a journalist, together with me, went by way of background checks.”
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The two,000-square-foot Earthship Atlantis, designed by architect Michael Reynolds, was lately accomplished. It’s in the marketplace for $825,000.
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What on this planet is an Earthship? If you wish to discover out, there’s an entire subdivision of those energy-efficient properties within the excessive desert of northern New Mexico. The development web site of a brand new Earthship may appear to be the aftermath of a frat occasion, however that’s solely as a result of these sustainably constructed buildings are made with previous aluminum cans and discarded tires. Right here & Now’s Peter O’Dowd lately spent a while in a single.
➡️ You’ll be able to see pictures of his go to right here and find out how these buildings hover round 70 levels yr spherical with out AC or heating. (By way of WBUR)
Deep dive
(EDITOR’S NOTE: Picture depicts dying) Fatma Hijazi, the mom of 10-year-old Palestinian Mustafa Hijazi, who died on account of malnutrition and lack of remedy, holds the lifeless physique of her baby and mourns in Deir al-Balah, Gaza on June 14, 2024. UN Youngsters’s Fund (UNICEF) mentioned that 9 out of 10 kids in Gaza undergo from extreme malnutrition.
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Almost all of Gaza’s inhabitants is battling meals shortages and starvation, and half 1,000,000 individuals now face hunger, based on a brand new report. The evaluation was performed by 35 consultants from the Built-in Meals Safety Section Classifications, some from U.N. businesses and main assist teams. The I.P.C. was based 20 years in the past to deal with famine in Somalia on the time.
Right here’s what their new evaluation discovered:
- ➡️ After assist entry reportedly improved in March and April, elevated army motion and repeated displacement in Could made situations worse and blocked life-saving assist for Gazans.
- ➡️ Greater than half of households in Gaza have needed to trade garments and different items for cash. A 3rd have resorted to selecting up trash to promote.
- ➡️ The World Meals Programme, which distributes meals in Gaza says with the intention to forestall famine, individuals want to have the ability to have entry to the vitamins present in contemporary meals, clear water and functioning hospitals.
- ➡️ Shortages of consuming water have additionally been reported and the quantity of medical assist crossing into Gaza can be inadequate, based on the World Well being Group.
- ➡️ With consultants warning that Gaza is at excessive danger of famine, right here’s when and the way famine declarations are made.
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This photograph offered by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Division reveals the monolith present in Gass Peak in Nevada’s Desert Nationwide Wildlife Refuge.
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- Metallic monoliths have appeared in Utah, Europe and New Zealand since 2020. One other one appeared close to Las Vegas earlier this month, although little is understood about who began the monolith frenzy or why.
- U.S. Surgeon Normal Vivek Murthy has declared gun violence a public well being disaster on Tuesday and really useful it’s handled as such. Right here’s what he recommended in a 40-page advisory that, whereas strongly worded, is unenforceable.
- Questlove talks concerning the Kendrick Lamar-Drake beef, the present state of hip hop, and the primary new album in additional than a decade from The Roots.
This article was edited by Obed Manuel.
