Ugandan athlete Rebecca Cheptegei is in a vital situation in a Kenyan hospital, after allegedly being doused with petrol and set on fireplace by a former boyfriend.

The 33-year-old marathon runner, who competed on the latest Paris Olympics, had suffered intensive burns, the physician treating her stated.

She was attacked at her residence in western Kenya, the place she had been coaching.

There are issues concerning the growing instances of violence towards feminine athletes in Kenya, a few of which have resulted in loss of life.

Ms Cheptegei is alleged to have been rescued by neighbours after the incident that occurred on Sunday at her residence within the small city of Endebess.

She was getting back from church together with her two youngsters when she was focused.

The alleged attacker additionally sustained critical burns, native police chief Jeremiah ole Kosiom advised journalists.

“The couple had been heard quarrelling exterior their home. In the course of the altercation, the boyfriend was seen pouring a liquid on the lady earlier than burning her,” Mr Kosiom was quoted as saying.

Ms Cheptegei, from a area simply throughout the border in Uganda, is alleged to have purchased a bit of land in Trans Nzoia county and constructed a home, to be close to Kenya’s many athletic coaching centres.

A report filed by an area administrator stated the 2 had been wrangling over the piece of land. Police say an investigation is underneath approach.

The 2 are being handled at Moi Instructing and Referral Hospital in Eldoret, the principle city within the area.

The hospital’s senior director of scientific companies Dr Owen Benach advised journalists that “a high-profile affected person” had been “absolutely sedated due to the extent of the burns”. He stated the hospital was well-equipped to cope with the troublesome scenario that each sufferers had been in.

Speaking to reporters, Ms Cheptegei’s father, Joseph Cheptegei, stated that he prayed “for justice for my daughter”.

Ms Cheptegei completed forty fourth within the marathon on the latest Paris Olympics.

She additionally gained gold on the World Mountain and Path Working Championships in Chiang Mai, Thailand, in 2022.

In April 2022, one other feminine runner, Damaris Mutua, was discovered strangled in a house with a pillow over her face within the Rift Valley city of Iten.

It got here months after record-breaking long-distance runner Agnes Tirop was discovered stabbed to loss of life in the identical city.

In each instances, their companions have been recognized by the authorities as the principle suspects.

Ms Tirop’s husband is presently going through homicide expenses, which he denies, whereas a seek for Ms Mutua’s boyfriend continues.

Males have additionally been focused.

Final December, one other Ugandan athlete, Benjamin Kiplagat was stabbed to loss of life by assailants in Eldoret.

Further reporting by the BBC’s Celestine Karoney.

Draper turned the primary British man to achieve the final 4 in New York since Andy Murray did it on his technique to the 2012 title when he beat Alex de Minaur on Wednesday.

Whereas the 22-year-old’s breakthrough run was aided by Carlos Alcaraz’s early exit, he now faces the hardest process potential towards the world primary in a blockbusting semi-final on Arthur Ashe on Friday.

It’s a good distance from their first battle in an under-18s double match the place the Italian was focused.

“The primary time I met Jannik was, we had been in an under-18 match,” Draper mentioned. “I believe I performed him within the doubles in a Grade 1 ITF.

“It has been unusual following his journey as a result of when he was youthful, he was in all probability not the most effective juniors.

“I bear in mind taking part in him in doubles, and we had been saying, ‘oh, hit to him as a result of he’s not the most effective participant on the courtroom’.

“Then, clearly, watching his progress to essentially attending to the highest 20 in a short time when all of us had been form of 300, 400 on the planet.

“I’ve clearly adopted him and at all times suppose he’s rather well mannered and an incredible man and good for the game.

“Clearly his tennis is unimaginable too. Jannik is an effective good friend, somebody I’m positively near.

“We ship one another messages in good moments, unhealthy moments. It’s a troublesome sport to play while you’re a younger man.”

Sinner has clearly progressed quite a bit since that under-18s double match, reaching world primary and successful the Australian Open this yr.

Whereas not with the ability to bear in mind the match Draper refers to, he did converse warmly in regards to the Briton, who he performed doubles with in a latest occasion in Montreal.

“In juniors, I used to be by no means good,” he mentioned. “I don’t bear in mind taking part in towards him in doubles, however I do bear in mind seeing him from outdoors.

“Clearly a lefty, his ball hanging was at all times very, excellent.

“It was good to share the courtroom with him in doubles in Montreal. You understand, we received to know one another much more.

“We textual content one another when we’ve got good or unhealthy occasions, attempting to maintain us up. It’s an excellent friendship.

“Clearly we attempt to put this away for the hours we’re on courtroom. I believe that’s fairly apparent. However each time we shake our arms, it’s once more friendship again and all goes to be good.”

A Ugandan athlete residing in Kenya was attacked and set on fireplace by her boyfriend and is receiving remedy for burns on 75% of her physique, police stated.

Rebecca Cheptegei, a distance runner who completed on the forty fourth place within the 2024 Paris Olympics, was attacked in her home within the western Trans Nzoia County. She was in important situation as of Tuesday, the BBC reported.

Trans Nzoia County Police Commander Jeremiah ole Kosiom stated Monday that Cheptegei’s boyfriend, Dickson Ndiema, purchased a jerrican of petrol, poured it on her and set her ablaze throughout an argument Sunday.

“Her situation seems to be critical with facial burns and bandages,” a MTRH employees member informed AFP, requesting anonymity as they weren’t licensed to talk to the media.

The police report didn’t point out if Cheptegei’s kids have been harm within the assault.

Ndiema additionally sustained burn wounds, and the 2 are receiving specialised remedy on the Moi Educating and Referral Hospital in Eldoret metropolis.

Cheptegei’s mother and father stated their daughter purchased land in Trans Nzoia to be close to the county’s many athletic coaching facilities.

A report filed by the native chief states that the couple was heard combating over the land the place the home was constructed earlier than the fireplace began.

The Ugandan Athletics Federation expressed its remorse over the incident, saying Cheptegei had “suffered extreme accidents.”

“This follows an incident involving her Kenyan boyfriend pouring petrol and setting fireplace on her,” it stated in a press release on social media.

Disturbing pattern of gender-based violence

The assault marked the most recent horrific incident of gender-based violence within the East African nation.

A report by the Kenyan Bureau of Nationwide Statistics printed in January 2023 discovered that 34 p.c of girls in Kenya have skilled bodily violence for the reason that age of 15.

It stated girls who had “been married are more likely to have skilled violence”, noting that 41 p.c of such girls reported incidents in comparison with 20 p.c of single girls.

The assault on Cheptegei comes two years after Kenyan-born athlete Damaris Mutua was discovered useless in Iten, a world-famous working hub within the Rift Valley within the west of the nation.

Her dying adopted the homicide of record-breaking runner Agnes Tirop, 25, who was discovered stabbed to dying at her residence in Iten in 2021.

Tirop’s estranged husband Emmanuel Ibrahim Rotich went on trial over her homicide in 2023. He has denied the fees. His trial is ongoing.

AFP contributed to this report.

Sinner, who got here into the match beneath a cloud following his anti-doping scandal, beat Daniil Medvedev in a curious quarter-final, popping out on prime with a 6-2 1-6 6-1 6-4 victory.

The Italian was not at his greatest however will take confidence from profitable what was thought-about by some because the de facto remaining.

He gained revenge for his loss to Medvedev within the Wimbledon quarter-final in July and has proven an excellent mentality to navigate his method so far given the drama surrounding him within the build-up to the match.

Sinner is now the heavy favorite, not solely to beat Draper in Friday’s semi-final, but in addition to assert a second grand slam title.

“It was very powerful, we all know one another fairly properly, we performed in Australia and London, so we knew it was going to be very bodily,” Sinner stated.

“It was a really unusual two units. I’m very pleased.

“It’s superb to play right here, I’m very pleased to be within the semi-finals in New York for the primary time.”

This was a repeat of the Australian Open remaining in January, which Sinner got here from two units all the way down to win and with one other five-set battle at Wimbledon, there was the potential for it to be an extended affair.

That didn’t come to fruition, although, as though it swung each methods, it was performed rapidly.

Sinner gained the primary set with two breaks of serve, however Medvedev responded and raced to the second set, dropping only one recreation.

Roles reversed for the third set with Sinner going again in entrance and seeing the end line, he edged a much more aggressive fourth set.

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Erling Haaland (Norway and Manchester Metropolis)

Nico Williams (Spain and Athletic Bilbao)

Granit Xhaka (Switzerland and Bayer Leverkusen)

Artem Dovbyk (Ukraine and Roma)

Toni Kroos (former Germany and Actual Madrid)

Vinicius Jr (Brazil and Actual Madrid)

Dani Olmo (Spain and Barcelona)

Florian Wirtz (Germany and Bayer Leverkusen)

Martin Odegaard (Norway and Arsenal)

Mats Hummels (Germany, free agent)

Rodri (Spain and Manchester Metropolis)

Harry Kane (England and Bayern Munich)

Declan Rice (England and Arsenal)

Vitinha (Portugal and Paris St-Germain)

Cole Palmer (England and Chelsea)

Dani Carvajal (Spain and Actual Madrid)

Lamine Yamal (Spain and Barcelona)

Bukayo Saka (England and Arsenal)

Hakan Calhanoglu (Turkey and Inter Milan)

William Saliba (France and Arsenal)

Kylian Mbappe (France and Actual Madrid)

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SACRAMENTO – Governor Gavin Newsom as we speak proclaimed a state of emergency within the Metropolis of Rancho Palos Verdes to guard public security amid ongoing land motion that has resulted in disrupted utility companies and evacuation warnings for impacted residents.
 
Town is situated on 4 out of 5 sub-slides that comprise the Better Portuguese Landslide Advanced. Land motion at a part of the Advanced has considerably accelerated following extreme storms in 2023 and 2024.
 
A replica of the proclamation will be discovered right here.
 
The Governor’s Workplace of Emergency Companies has been coordinating with town and county for almost a 12 months to assist the response to the land motion, together with offering technical help, supporting the native help heart, facilitating a federal mitigation grant for groundwater work within the space, and serving to officers with preliminary harm estimates.
 

 “Joker: Folie à Deux” director Todd Phillips not too long ago instructed Selection for a canopy story that the aim in making the anticipated sequel to 2019’s “Joker” was “to make it really feel prefer it was made by loopy individuals. The inmates are working the asylum.” It seems the director bought his want partially from his main star Joaquin Phoenix, who would throw out the script on a whim and collect with Phillips and co-star Girl Gaga in his trailer to rewrite whole scenes from the bottom up.

“We’d fairly often meet in Joaquin’s trailer and typically we’d simply tear the script up and begin throughout,” Gaga not too long ago instructed Vainness Truthful for her personal cowl story. “It was a very cool, liberating course of.”

Phillips confirmed Gaga’s story and instructed the publication: “My line about Joaquin is that he’s the tunnel on the finish of the sunshine. You suppose, ‘Okay, this scene works, let’s simply go shoot it.’ And Joaquin’s like, ‘No, no, no, let’s simply have a fast assembly about it,’ and it’s three hours later and also you’re rewriting it on a serviette. What’s nice about Girl Gaga is that she actually holds her personal, each off digital camera after we’re within the trailer tearing issues aside — which she in all probability spent the night time earlier than studying — but additionally on digital camera. It was not a small feat.”

“She places herself round very highly effective individuals,” Phillips later famous about his main woman. “I imply, Bradley Cooper, to be throughout from him out of the gate. To be throughout from Adam Driver [in ‘House of Gucci’], who’s a beast, and Joaquin who’s a beast. She’s in it — she went full in.”

“Joker: Folie à Deux” picks up the story with Phoenix’s Arthur Fleck standing trial for homicide after he capturing a late-night host lifeless on stay tv. Whereas incarcerated at Arkham Asylum, he befriends Gaga’s Lee and the 2’s burgeoning romance impacts the course of the trial.

It’s not out of the bizarre for Phoenix to generate rewrites in his mission. Ridley Scott revealed to Empire throughout final yr’s “Napoleon” press tour that casting Phoenix because the French emperor resulted within the script being fully rewritten to make the actor extra comfy.

“Joaquin is about as removed from typical as you will get,” Scott mentioned on the time. “Not intentionally, however out of instinct. That’s what makes him tick. If one thing bothers him, he’ll let you realize. He made [‘Napoleon’] particular by continuously questioning.”

“With Joaquin, we will rewrite the goddamn movie as a result of he’s uncomfortable. And that type of occurred with ‘Napoleon,’” the director continued. “We unpicked the movie to assist him concentrate on who Bonaparte was. I needed to respect that, as a result of what was being mentioned was extremely constructive. It made all of it develop larger and higher.”

“Joker: Folie à Deux” opens in theaters Oct. 4 from Warner Bros.

Todd Phillps’ “Joker 2: Folie a Deux” is getting combined evaluations from its Venice Movie Pageant debut.

The sequel to “Joker” is a musical starring Joaquin Phoenix and Girl Gaga. Warner Bros. has downplayed the musical classification however in any case, that is Girl Gaga concerned.

The evaluations vary from good to terrible, so the screening definitely affected its first audiences.

Indie Wire says: Boring, flat, and such a felony waste of Girl Gaga that we should always demand a public listening to, “Folie à Deux” tries and fails to make a degree of our personal frustrations with it.

Joker, aka Arthur Fleck, meets Gaga’s Harley Quinn in jail. There’s singing and dancing. The Guardian writes: “the entire film lastly seems to be oppressively, claustrophobically and repetitively becalmed in that oddly unreal Gotham-universe jail with Phoenix and Gaga saved aside for lengthy durations – and Phoenix’s personal efficiency is as single-note as earlier than, although definitely as forceful and his display screen presence is potent.”

Selection: “desperate-to-be-darkly-irreverent however really reasonably clunky and earthbound musical sequel”

The Wrap — which oddly marked it as “Contemporary” on Rotten Tomatoes — : It’s a tragic, pensive, and impressively odd movement image that makes use of the theatricality of film musicals to undermine its hero’s ambitions as an alternative of elevating them. There’s no enterprise like present enterprise? It’s, like… no. It’s enterprise, ?

Hollywood Reporter: Gaga is a compelling live-wire presence, splitting the distinction between affinity and obsession, whereas endearingly giving Arthur a shot… Their musical numbers, each duets and solos, have a vitality that the extra usually dour movie desperately wants.

It doesn’t matter what the evaluations are from Venice, audiences will clamor to see this movie. I do know I’ll, and I actually need to hear the music from Girl Gaga.

SPOILER ALERT: from an interview Phillips did this morning, there’s a sign that Arthur Fleck doesn’t make it out of the film alive. When requested if he may make one other “Joker” movie, Phillips responded within the destructive. “Have you ever seen this movie?” he stated.

(Winston-Salem, N.C. – September 3, 2024) – Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are set to face off of their first presidential debate on September 10.

Wake Forest College political communications knowledgeable Nate French can supply perception on why the timing of this presidential debate issues and the way it may set the stage for a profitable White Home marketing campaign. 

French, who’s following North Carolina politics and the 2024 race for the White Home, is an affiliate educating professor. He can present pre-and post-debate evaluation, talk about what points will resonate effectively with voters and consider how Harris and Trump carry out throughout their televised matchup.  

French seems to be at each verbal and nonverbal communication.

“This debate shall be about who regarded presidential, who was in a position to talk that they’re commander in chief,” mentioned French. “Did they persuade the undecided or safe their base and which candidate received their level throughout the most effective?” 

It’s seemingly that prime points together with the financial system, immigration and reproductive rights shall be a part of the dialogue.

Along with the controversy content material, French mentioned the timing of this occasion can be vital.

“The controversy is so near the election, and it issues,” he added. “Early voting is simply across the nook in North Carolina and different states. The matchup can be totally different this time. How does it look gender primarily based? For those who bear in mind, we’ve seen Hillary Clinton in 2016, however we haven’t seen one other lady on the primary presidential stage. The final time we noticed Trump was within the debate with President Biden, and he carried out effectively, however will we see that once more? So, there shall be emphasis on how the candidates not solely reply to the moderator’s questions, however how effectively they do in entrance of the thousands and thousands of individuals watching this debate.”

French has been featured in politics-related tales and interviews by a number of information organizations together with WGHP Fox 8, Australian Broadcasting Company in Sydney, ABC Information Radio Australia and  CTV Information, a CNN affiliate primarily based in Toronto, Canada.

The presidential debate will air stay on Tuesday, September 10 at 9:00 p.m. EDT and is hosted by ABC Information.

One other vital matchup is the vice presidential debate on October 1 between Democratic candidate Tim Walz. (D) Minnesota, Harris’s choose and Republican candidate JD Vance, (R) Ohio, Trump’s choose.

In individual early voting in North Carolina takes place from Oct. 17 – Nov. 2. The overall election will happen on Tuesday, November 5.

Notice: To schedule an interview with Nate French, contact Keri Brown media@wfu.edu or 336-971-4442 or C: 336-971-5402.                                                                                                             

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