A Ugandan Olympic athlete living in Kenya was attacked and set on fire by a man believed to be her boyfriend and suffered burns on 80 per cent of her body, Kenyan police and medical officials said.
Coca-Cola and rival PepsiCo spent hundreds of millions of dollars over decades building demand for their soft drinks in Muslim-majority countries. But now, local sodas are emerging as real competitors amid boycotts of the brands as symbols of America, and by extension Israel, at a time of war in Gaza.
It’s been a long time coming, but Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft is finally returning to Earth — without its two astronauts. The capsule is scheduled to depart the International Space Station on Friday and land at the White Sands Space Harbor in New Mexico early Saturday morning.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba resigned Wednesday, the most major move in a government reshuffle ordered by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at a crucial juncture in the war against Russia. Russian strikes, meanwhile, killed at least seven people in the Ukrainian city of Lviv near the Polish border.
At least 12 people, including six children and a pregnant woman, were killed after a migrant ship capsized on the English Channel. The disaster has reignited calls for stronger measures to address the migrant crisis.
