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World in brief: July 8, 2024
Emergency workers respond at the Okhmatdyt children's hospital hit by Russian missiles, in Kyiv, Ukraine, July 8, 2024

KENYA: A court ruled today that the 2022 police shooting and killing of a Pakistani journalist in Nairobi was unlawful and unconstitutional, a lawyer and his family said.

Justice Stella Mutuku, in the ruling in Nairobi, also faulted Kenya’s attorney general and the director of public prosecutions for laxity in investigating the shooting of Arshad Sharif, after police opened fire at his car at a roadblock checkpoint.

INDONESIA: A landslide triggered by torrential rains crashed onto an unauthorised gold mining operation on Indonesia’s Sulawesi island, killing at least 12 people, officials said today. Another 48 people were reported missing.

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