Uhuru Kenyatta: Kenyans are 'experienced thieves'

 

Many Kenyans accuse Uhuru Kenyatta of failing to tackle corruption

Kenyans are "experienced in stealing and perpetuating other crimes", the president has said, during a state visit to Israel. 

Uhuru Kenyatta added that Kenya was "20 times more wonderful" than Israel, but "all we ever do is complain".

Rotherham Abusers Could Lose UK Citizenship

The Home Office considers using legal powers to deport ringleaders of sex abuse gangs in cases "conducive to the public good".

(L-R) Arshid Hussain, Basharat Hussain and Bannaras Hussain

The ringleaders of the Rotherham sex abuse scandal could lose their UK citizenship and be deported at the end of their prison sentences.

Theresa May, the Home Secretary, is to broaden use of anti-terrorism powers following the conviction of Asian sex abuse gangs.

Teen Says Life Under IS Was 'Really Hard'

Marlin Stivani Nivarlain, 16, said the house she was living in in Mosul, Iraq, had no water or electricity and she had no money.

: Teen Talks About Life Under IS

A Swedish teenage girl has given a rare insight into what it is like living under Islamic State control - describing it as "really hard".

Marlin Stivani Nivarlain, 16, said the

Up To Four Killed In Kansas Shooting Rampage

The local sheriff said the gunman drove around in his car firing at people before he was shot dead by officers.

Residents at the scene of the shootings

Up to four people have been killed and around 20 wounded after a gunman went on a shooting spree in an industrial area in Kansas.

The Line-Up For FIFA Presidential Election

Find out who is contesting the presidency, the reforms they have promised to make - and what their chances of winning are.

The election will take place in Zurich where FIFA has its headquarters

There are five men hoping to succeed Sepp Blatter as President of football's world governing body, FIFA. They are:

North Korea: US submits tougher sanctions to UN

 

US ambassador to the UN Samantha Power said the sanctions would send a strong message

The US, backed by China, has submitted a draft resolution to the UN Security Council aimed at imposing tougher sanctions on North Korea.

It comes in response to North Korea's recent nuclear test and missile launch.
The measures would for the first time require UN member states to inspect all cargo to or from North Korea.

The US ambassador to the UN, Samantha Power, said

Soccer

S. African outsider in FIFA presidency bid

Soccer's governiong body FIFA is to vote for a replacement for Sepp Blatter as it seeks to extricate itself from corruption scandals and repair its image. One candidate is South African Tokyo Sexwale.

Tokyo Sexwale is one of five candidates vying to replace Sepp Blatter as president of FIFA, world soccer's governing body.
The election is expected at an extraordinary FIFA congress on Friday (26.02.2016). 209 soccer

Climate

UN climate boss had 'unenviable job' sealing Paris deal

Critics say the emissions deal Christiana Figueres helped reach in December was "watered down." Figueres, a diplomat from Costa Rica who has headed UN climate negotiations for six years, will leave her position in July. 

"Christiana Figueres had a very unenviable position, and she's done an excellent job in holding the whole edifice together," Kevin Anderson, the deputy director of the Tyndall Center for Climate
Change Research, told DW following the senior diplomat's decision last week not to seek a new term.

Terrorism

Obama: Changing Guantanamo's zip code

Eight years after vowing to close Guantanamo, US President Barack Obama has launched a final push to shut the facility. But critics say the plan would transfer indefinite detention to US soil. Spencer Kimball reports. 

With less than a year left in his final term, US President Barack Obama has presented a last-ditch plan to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, a move staunchly opposed by the Republican-controlled Congress and the three leading Republican presidential candidates.

South Sudan

Ban Ki-moon in peace drive bid in S. Sudan

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is in South Sudan where he will try and revive a fragile peace deal to end a civil war. Both government and rebels are under pressure to settle their differences. 

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (right) with South Sudan's President Salva Kiir in Juba

DW asked Douglas Johnson, an Oxford-based South Sudan expert, about the significance of UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's visit to the war-torn East African country and whether it would make any difference.

North Korea

US proposes new sanctions against North Korea to UN Security Council

The United States has submitted a draft resolution geared at punishing the North Korean regime for its nuclear tests. Recent actions from Pyongyang have triggered the response officials say China also supports.

US Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power started a push for new sanctions Thursday against Pyongyang in response to the country's controversial nuclear weapons program.