As we all know, Nairobi is quite a pricey city albeit there are quite a number of things you can do with your significant other without spending money.

Here are affordable date ideas that don’t require the two of you to splurge and go out of your way especially when there isn’t much to spend.

You can look for a recipe online for a meal that you have both been meaning to try out and together, you can make the meal and enjoy.

Instead of going to the movies, look for a movies or binge watch your favourite series as you snack on ice cream or popcorn.

There are so many game apps that you can download on your phone. It’s okay to unleash your witty side by playing sudoku or scrabble; other times, it’s okay to unleash your silly side by playing a game such as a twister or even trying out tongue twisters together…you’ll discover how much fun the two of you can have when you don’t take life too seriously.

You know all those empty wine bottles that lay in your pantry or store? Take them out one day and paint them with your better half. You can spray paint them and turn them into decor pieces such as bedside candle holders and it’s also a fun activity to bring out your artsy sides. You could also get your old pair of jeans and rip them, turning them into fashionable his and hers outfits.

If you have no gym membership, you could go out for a run together or ride bicycles around the neighbourhood. Better yet, make use of YouTube work out tutorials and do your cardio work out together.

Make use of apps such as Dubsmash and Musically to make cute silly videos that you will both look at and laugh your guts out…such also come in handy when you’re having a rough day; the saved videos will make your day!

Well if there’s really nothing much to do and your pockets have holes, there’s always the option to get naughty. You could have a bath together, give your man a striptease and just get down and dirty. What better way to spend a boring weekend than in the arms of the one you love?

Mr. Mamoudou Gassama scaled a 5-storey apartment building to rescue a child who was dangling from the balcony. Narrating the life-changing act to President Macron, he said though he was trembling, he got the courage to climb the building as he started.

French President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday that 22-year-old Mamoudou Gassama will be awarded for his “exceptional act” with legal papers, citizenship if he wants it and a job with the fire service.

The astonishing footage of Mr Gassama scaling the building and rescuing the child in just 30 seconds has been shared hundreds of thousands of times on social media.

See footage below

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met Thursday with Russia's foreign minister, who was in Pyongyang on a visit that Moscow hopes will reassert its role as a force to be reckoned with ahead of Kim's expected summit with U.S. President Donald Trump in Singapore next month.

Moscow has remained largely on the sidelines as Kim has made a major diplomatic outreach to Seoul, Beijing and Washington over the past several months. But Sergey Lavrov's visit suggests Russia wants to make sure it is informed of North Korea's intentions and is mindful of Moscow's concerns.

Lavrov relayed President Vladimir Putin's "warmest regards and best wishes" for Kim's "big endeavors" on the Korean Peninsula. He also expressed Moscow's support for an agreement Kim reached with South Korean President Moon Jae-in at a summit last month that focused on measures to ease hostilities and increase exchanges between the two Koreas.

Video of the beginning of their meeting showed Lavrov inviting Kim to Moscow and complimenting the North Korean leader on the many new projects that have brightened up the capital.

According to Russian media, he also discussed ways to expand relations during a meeting with Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho.

"We welcome the contacts that have been developing in the recent months between North and South Korea, between North Korea and the United States," Lavrov said in comments to the media. "We welcome the summits that already took place between Pyongyang and Seoul as well as planned meetings between North Korean and U.S. leadership."

He vowed Russia's support for denuclearization and a broader effort to create a stable and long-lasting peace in the region, but indicated that Moscow believes sanctions can be eased while the process is in progress, which diverges from the U.S. position that denuclearization must come first.

"It's absolutely obvious that when a conversation starts about solving the nuclear problem and other problems of the Korean Peninsula, we proceed from the fact that the decision can't be complete while sanctions are still in place," he said.

Despite having a border with North Korea and relatively cordial relations that Putin has seemed to want to develop further, Russia has kept a surprisingly low profile as Kim has emerged onto the world stage this year, meeting twice with Chinese President Xi Jinping and South Korea's Moon.

As Lavrov was visiting Pyongyang, one of Kim's top lieutenants, former intelligence chief Kim Yong Chol, was in New York to discuss with U.S. officials the agenda for the Trump summit.

District Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald in Manhattan said that blocking access to his @realDonaldTrump account would be a violation of the right to free speech.

The lawsuit against Mr Trump and other White House officials stems from his decision to bar several online critics.

The White House has yet to comment on the judge's ruling.

The case was brought by The Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University on behalf of seven Twitter users who had been blocked by Mr Trump for criticising him or mocking him online.

On Wednesday the judge agreed with their argument that the social media platform qualifies as a "designated public forum" granted to all US citizens.

"This case requires us to consider whether a public official may, consistent with the First Amendment, 'block' a person from his Twitter account in response to the political views that person has expressed, and whether the analysis differs because that public official is the President of the United States," the judge said in her opinion.

"The answer to both questions is no."

The judge rejected argument by Mr Trump's lawyers that the "First Amendment does not apply in this case and that the President's personal First Amendment interests supersede those of plaintiffs".

Mr Trump has over 52 million followers on Twitter, his preferred social media platform which he joined in March 2009.

He often eschews the official US presidential Twitter account, @POTUS, as well as his own White House press office, to make official announcements.

One of the people that Mr Trump blocked, Holly O'Reilly, who uses the account @AynRandPaulRyan, was blocked last May after posting a GIF of Mr Trump meeting with Pope Francis.

The photo, which some said showed the Pope glaring at Mr Trump, was captioned: "This is pretty much how the whole world sees you."

Shortly after being blocked, she told Time Magazine that "it's like FDR took my radio away", referring to Franklin Delano Roosevelt - the World War Two-era president who spoke directly to Americans with his so-called fireside chats.

Earlier in the trial, Judge Buchwald suggested the president, who was not in court, could simply mute the accounts he does not want to see.

People on Twitter are unable to see or respond to tweets from accounts that block them.

But if Mr Trump muted an account, he would not see that user's tweets but the user could still see and respond to his.

It's unclear if Mr Trump will now unblock his critics, but the judge hinted the president could face legal action if he did not comply with the ruling.

She wrote that "because all government officials are presumed to follow the law once the judiciary has said what the law is, we must assume that the President [and his social media director] will remedy the blocking we have held to be unconstitutional".

Analysis by Dave Lee, BBC North America technology reporter, San Francisco

When it comes to Twitter, the First Amendment grants the American people the right to speak about the President - but it doesn't force him to listen.

While the court has ruled the blocking is unconstitutional, it said the ability to mute a person was not - and so the safe space nurtured by the president and his social media team will remain mostly intact. As I type this, he follows just 46 people, mostly family and Fox News presenters.

For many of those he blocked, it's become a badge of honour - a #blockedbytrump topic sprung up as a way of celebrating being shut out by The Donald.

But Trump's tweets are a major means by which the president communicates with his people. However history looks back at what is happening within his administration today, tweets will form a crucial part of that record.

And while some have argued that anyone blocked by Trump can see his tweets by just logging out, that doesn't necessarily give the whole picture. One tweet sent on Wednesday does not appear in the feed for logged-out users, for example, as it is a "reply".

Blocking also prevents people from replying to or quoting what was said.

The bigger impact here, however, is that this ruling applies to all public officials in the US.

And so it won't just be Mr Trump thumbing through and unblocking those who he deems unsavoury.

Source:https://3newsbay.blogspot.com/

In the first 10 minutes of the nearly 40-minute bodycam footage released by police, Youngblood repeatedly complains that she is cold asks for her jacket, despite an officer telling her several times that it was 67 degrees and "not that cold."

After an officer handcuffs her and takes her for processing, Youngblood refuses to take a breath test and begins to discuss her legislative efforts on behalf of the police.

“So many people tell me that you guys treat people of color like [expletive], and I always stood up for you," Youngblood told arresting officers.

Youngblood, a Republican, also told officers that she had sponsored legislation that would prescribe the death penalty for cop killers.

She was charged with aggravated DWI for refusing the breath test, the Santa Fe New Mexican reported. 

Youngblood has apparently deleted her Twitter account, and some local politicians are calling on her to resign.

Michael Hendricks, a GOP candidate for state attorney general, said in a statement Tuesday that Youngblood has to step aside.

“It must be very clear that it does not matter who you are, no one is above the law,” Hendricks said. “Although, everyone is entitled to due process, the fact that Representative Youngblood refused the breath test would intimate something to hide.”

For her part, Youngblood was apologetic for refusing to take the breath test.

"As a legislator, I have always taken drinking and driving seriously," she said in a statement to KOB-TV. "While I regret the situation altogether, I most definitely regret not taking the breathalyzer test. I look forward to bringing this matter to a swift and just conclusion."

In a touch of irony, Youngblood was released from jail on her own recognizance -- even though the tough-on-crime legislator had previously introduced a bill that would prevent aggravated DWI suspects like herself from leaving jail without paying bail.

Source:https://3newsbay.blogspot.com/

“It takes a certain kind of man with a certain reputation, to alleviate the cash from a whole entire nation. Take my loose change and build my own space station. (Just because you can, man.)”

Robbie Williams’s lyrics in the 2016 song "Party Like a Russian" digs at the country’s rich and powerful. This week, it might be their dancing music. The British pop artist is headlining the glitziest after-hours bash at Russia’s annual economic forum this week. The party will celebrate the 25th anniversary of MegaFon PJSC, the wireless company owned by Alisher Usmanov.

Aside from the business agenda, the three-day event in St. Petersburg is known for its lavish late-night parties where Russia’s top brass mingle with celebrities and the champagne flows freely. The economic forum this year will be attended by President Vladimir Putin and French President Emmanuel Macron, and panels include everything from how to do business in Russia to biotechnology and blockchain.

Noticeably absent from the forum will be an official delegation from United Co. Rusal, the aluminum giant sanctioned by the U.S. government last month. For the first time in about a decade, the company isn’t sponsoring events or sending a team of executives, according to three people familiar with the situation.

Rusal owner Oleg Deripaska will make a final decision this week on whether to go to St. Petersburg, the people said, adding that it’s unlikely he’ll attend.

The company has more pressing issues to deal with. Rusal faces a long list of operational problems, and is currently negotiating an end to the sanctions with the U.S. Treasury. A spokeswoman for Deripaska declined to comment.

An absence would mark the new reality for the aluminum magnate, who prided himself on his reputation as a globe-trotting executive who threw extravagant events. In February, Deripaska’s party in Davos featured Russian folk dancers and a performance by Enrique Iglesias.

Two Brookings Institution fellows filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration to force the release an annual FBI "climate survey" where employees anonymously share their perspective on the performance of FBI leaders and the organization, Talking Points Memo reports.

Ben Wittes and Scott Anderson filed a Freedom of Information Act in April requesting the document, but had not received it or a reason for a delay in its release as of Friday, when their suit was filed in Washington, D.C.

The lawsuit comes one year after President Donald Trump fired James Comey as FBI director, with the White House claiming Comey had lost the confidence of the bureau's rank and file. The 2017 survey, though, showed Comey was highly respected and trusted within the bureau during his nearly four-year tenure.

Using a 1-to-5 scale, where scores between 3.81 and 5 are considered a "success in those areas," Comey received average scores of 4.67, 4.39 and 4.38, respectively, on the morale question.

Wittes and Anderson argue the public deserves to see the results of the 2018 survey as they will reveal the pulse of the FBI year into Trump's tenure.

"The FBI faced many challenges over the past year, following President Trump's decision to fire Director Comey," it reads. "The president and his allies have accused specific FBI personnel of skewing investigative results, abusing surveillance authorities, and engaging in a vendetta against the president. The president has also repeatedly attacked the integrity of the FBI and its agents on Twitter."