KENYA PROTESTERS TEARGASSED OUTSIDE POLICE STATION.
Police in Kenya have fired tear gas to disperse human rights activists who are calling for the release of dozens of people who were detained during anti-government protests.
Video footage shows clouds of tear gas at Nairobi’s central police station.
Among protesters was the former Chief Justice, Willy Mutunga.
Opposition leader Raila Odinga called for protests to oppose a rise in fuel tax and the high cost of living.
At least one person is reported to have been killed when police responded to the demonstrations in Nairobi, Mombasa and Kisumu.

At least 28 people were arrested.

GIESSEN ERITREA FESTIVAL CLASHES LEAVES TWENTY-SIX POLICE OFFICERS INJURED.
Hundreds of German police have used batons and pepper spray to quell crowds targeting an Eritrean cultural festival in the central town of Giessen.
The protesters were angry that the festival went ahead in Giessen, calling it a propaganda exercise by the authoritarian Eritrean regime.
A police statement said clashes took place for hours, and that 26 police officers were injured.
Police arrested nearly 100 people and had to stop traffic in the town centre.

The police statement said protesters threw bottles and stones at police, damaged some vehicles and ripped down fencing.

AIR STRIKE KILLS TWENTY-TWO IN KHARTOUM.
A Sudanese army air strike on the capital has killed at least 22 people and injured many others, eyewitnesses and an official have said.
Women and children were among the victims.
The airstrike hit the Dar es Salaam district of Omdurman, on the opposite bank of the Nile to the capital Khartoum.
The army and a paramilitary force have been battling for control of the capital since April.

The conflict began after the head of the army, Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, and the head of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), Gen Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, fell out over the future of the country.

UNITED STATES PRESIDENT FLIES TO UNITED KINGDOM.
United States President Joe Biden is heading to Europe ahead of a NATO summit after several allies questioned his decision to send cluster bombs to Ukraine.
The United Kinddom and Canada are among those who voiced concern about supplying the bombs, which are widely banned because of the danger they pose to civilians.
The United States says they are needed because Ukraine’s weapon stocks are dwindling.
Biden will arrive first in the UK, on Sunday evening, before heading to Lithuania for this week’s Nato summit.
On Monday, he will meet British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to discuss various issues, including the war in Ukraine.

He will also meet King Charles for the first time since the King was crowned.

FRANCE BANS FOURTEENTH JULY FIREWORKS SALES AFTER RIOTS.
France has banned the sale, possession and transport of fireworks during the July 14 national holiday weekend, following riots sparked by the police killing a teenager.
Fireworks were among the weapons of choice during the unrest that exploded in France after a police officer shot dead a 17-year-old during a traffic stop on June 27 near Paris, rekindling long pent-up frustrations and accusations of systemic racism among France’s security forces.
“In order to prevent the risk of serious disturbances to public order during the July 14 festivities, the sale, possession, transport and use of pyrotechnical articles and fireworks is banned until fifteenth July inclusively.
This is according to a government decree published in the official Journal on Sunday.

It added that the ban does not extend to professionals or municipalities that are organising traditional fireworks for the Bastille Day celebrations.

POPE FRANCIS TO APPOINT NEW CARDINALS SEPTEMBER.
Pope Francis says he would create 21 new cardinals from across the world at the end of September.
According to the pope, their provenance expresses the universality of the Church that continues to proclaim God’s merciful love to all people on earth
He made this known, following his weekly Sunday Angelus prayer from the window of the Apostolic Palace on Saint Peter’s Square.
The consistory will be the ninth for the creation of cardinals under Pope Francis, who is in the tenth year of his papacy.
His choices are closely watched as an indication of the future direction of the Catholic Church and its priorities for its 1.3 billion faithful.