US health officials plan to revisit vaccine policies using anti-vax tactics, experts warn

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Data public health experts say is worrisome will reportedly be presented to ACIP later this week before vote on shots

US health officials are reportedly planning to release data on child deaths and serious side effects they would attribute to Covid-19 vaccines, raising alarm among public health experts who say the publicly available data does not support these claims and the report may lead to increased anti-vaccine sentiment.

Independent advisers for the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) later this week plan to revisit recommendations for Covid shots as well as vaccines for measles and hepatitis B.

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Who was Agnes Wanjiru, Kenyan woman killed near army base in 2012?

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Relatives remember a dependable, kind and funny woman and remain traumatised by her death

Perhaps the Kenyan market town of Nanyuki’s greatest claim to fame was that it straddles the equator. But now it has become synonymous with something darker. It was here where Agnes Wanjiru was born and lived and where she was brutally killed.

Her family searched for her for months before her body was found stuffed into a septic tank at the same hotel where she had last been seen alive.

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Baggy jeans, workwear and plenty of grit: luxury reimagined at Coach

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Creative director Stuart Vevers appeals to gen z audience with ‘down-to-earth pieces’ for New York fashion week

New York fashion week is proving a particularly perplexing time for brands as they continue to grapple with a global slowdown, leading many to question what luxury even means today.

For some consumers, it is always going to be about a gleaming five-figure handbag. For others, it is a limited-edition Labubu. While a certain cohort considers a plain cashmere jumper to be the peak of high status, logomania endures for others. Vintage shopping is now used to denote quality but equally buying nothing has become a powerful signifier.

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Georgia supreme court ends Fani Willis bid to reverse removal from Trump case

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Election interference case in limbo as court declines to hear appeal against disqualification of Fulton county prosecutor

The Georgia supreme court on Tuesday declined to hear Fani Willis’s appeal of a lower court’s ruling disqualifying the Fulton county prosecutor from prosecuting Donald Trump’s election interference case.

In a 4-3 decision, the state’s highest court let stand the lower court order disqualifying Willis from the racketeering and election interference case that initially snagged 19 defendants, including Donald Trump, in 2023.

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Exclusive: Russia close to cutting oil output due to drone attacks, sources say – Reuters

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  1. Exclusive: Russia close to cutting oil output due to drone attacks, sources say  Reuters
  2. Ukrainian drones strike one of Russia’s top oil refineries, sparking fire  AP News
  3. Drone Strikes Mean Russians Pay $9 A Gallon For Gas, If There Is Any  Forbes
  4. Can NATO Countries Stop Buying Russian Oil, As Trump Demands?  Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
  5. Oil rises after attacks on Russian energy facilities  CNBC
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UN commission of inquiry accuses Israel of genocide in Gaza and urges global action – AP News

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  1. UN commission of inquiry accuses Israel of genocide in Gaza and urges global action  AP News
  2. UN commission says Israel is committing genocide in Gaza  CNN
  3. UN inquiry finds top Israeli officials incited genocide in Gaza  Reuters
  4. UN Watch Rebuttal: Legal Analysis of Pillay Commission's September 2025 Report to Human Rights Council  UN Watch
  5. LIVE: Middle East updates; Gaza war 'morally, politically, and legally intolerable,' says Guterres  UN News
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Chadwick Boseman play about police brutality to receive UK premiere in London

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Deep Azure, written by the Black Panther star in response to the death of a fellow college student, will open at Sam Wanamaker Playhouse next year

A play by the Black Panther star Chadwick Boseman, who died of cancer aged 43 in 2020, is to receive its UK premiere next year.

Deep Azure was written by Boseman in response to the death of Prince Jones, his fellow college student at Washington DC’s Howard University, who was killed in 2000 by a police officer. The play was first performed in 2005 in the US and will be staged at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse in London in February, directed by Tristan Fynn-Aiduenu.

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Taliban leader bans Wi-Fi in an Afghan province to ‘prevent immorality’ – AP News

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  1. Taliban leader bans Wi-Fi in an Afghan province to ‘prevent immorality’  AP News
  2. Taliban cuts internet access in Afghan province to stop 'immorality'  Euronews.com
  3. Taliban shut down WiFi, a lifeline for women and girls, in Afghan province  The Washington Post
  4. Taliban chief orders internet blackouts, calling the web the ‘root of all evil’  The Jerusalem Post
  5. Taliban Leader Orders Nationwide Restrictions On High-Speed Internet In Afghanistan  افغانستان اینترنشنال
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Taliban leader bans Wi-Fi in an Afghan province to ‘prevent immorality’ – AP News

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  1. Taliban leader bans Wi-Fi in an Afghan province to ‘prevent immorality’  AP News
  2. Taliban cuts internet access in Afghan province to stop 'immorality'  Euronews.com
  3. Taliban shut down WiFi, a lifeline for women and girls, in Afghan province  The Washington Post
  4. Taliban chief orders internet blackouts, calling the web the ‘root of all evil’  The Jerusalem Post
  5. Taliban Leader Orders Nationwide Restrictions On High-Speed Internet In Afghanistan  افغانستان اینترنشنال
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Swarming drones could overwhelm air defenses, changing the future of combat – TechSpot

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  1. Swarming drones could overwhelm air defenses, changing the future of combat  TechSpot
  2. Ukraine’s Most Lethal Soldiers  The Atlantic
  3. Russia Made Drone Production a Supreme Priority. Now It Swarms the Skies.  The New York Times
  4. Only Ukraine can teach NATO how to combat Putin’s growing drone fleet  Atlantic Council
  5. As Trump heads to Europe, Russian drones hit Kyiv and Zelenskyy urges sanctions  ABC News
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How huge London far-right march lifted the lid on a toxic transatlantic soup

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Tommy Robinson’s ‘free speech’ protest attracted more than 100,000 people – and it was easy to find links to key political figures and events in the US

A young man in a suit made of union jacks held up a framed photograph of their hero above his head. The crowd loudly chanted the name.

The focus of this acclamation was not Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, better known as Tommy Robinson, the organiser of the so-called “free speech” march in central London last Saturday.

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Gambling lobby’s sponsorship of Australian parliament’s sports club condemned by crossbench MPs

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Exclusive: Kate Chaney calls on PM to remove Responsible Wagering Australia’s membership, which allows sponsors to access ‘key opinion leaders’

Crossbench MPs and a transparency group have criticised the gambling lobby’s sponsorship of federal parliament’s sports club, alleging it paid to secure access to decision makers and entrench wagering’s close association with sport.

Responsible Wagering Australia has also been accused by the independent ACT senator David Pocock of “shamelessly” trying to claim it was involved with a running group devoted to eliminating suicide, which was hosted by the parliamentary sports club.

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Treasury Targets Financial Network Supporting Iran’s Military – U.S. Department of the Treasury (.gov)

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  1. Treasury Targets Financial Network Supporting Iran’s Military  U.S. Department of the Treasury (.gov)
  2. US slaps new sanctions on individuals and firms that help Iran sell its oil  Al Jazeera
  3. US sanctions target financing of Iran's military, Treasury says  Reuters
  4. US sanctions Iranian financiers, others over $100M in cryptocurrency transfers from Iran oil sales  AP News
  5. US sanctions Iranian oil network tied to IRGC and MODAFL  The Jerusalem Post
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Kenya seeks arrest of former British soldier over alleged murder of Agnes Wanjiru

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High court judge issues arrest warrant, saying a suspect has been charged in relation to 2012 death of 21-year-old

A warrant has been issued for the arrest of a British national on suspicion of the murder of the Kenyan woman Agnes Wanjiru, who was found dead in the grounds of a hotel near an army base in 2012.

The high court judge Alexander Muteti issued the arrest warrant earlier on Tuesday in Kenya, with the prosecution telling the court a suspect had been charged with murder, and his extradition to Kenya was being sought.

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