News in Brief (14-08-2018)

FE Team | Published: August 14, 2018 00:46:22

Ex-White House staffer
releases tape of her firing
WASHINGTON, Aug 13: A former White House staffer who has written a bombshell memoir of her time serving under President Donald Trump released a secret tape Sunday of the chief of staff firing her. Omarosa Manigault Newman said she decided to release the secret recording of John Kelly in the Situation Room - which marks a breach of security protocols - and recorded conversations with Trump because "this is a White House where everybody lies." The White House Situation Room is supposed to be a top-security room and electronic devices are banned there, but it was not immediately clear whether Manigault Newman would face legal ramifications for releasing the recording. — AFP
13 climbers, crew reportedly alive after chopper hard lands in Tajikistan
DUSHANBE, Aug 13: All climbers and crew on board a helicopter that made a "hard landing" in the mountains of Tajikistan are alive, the country's emergency service said Monday, after earlier reports that the passengers were feared to have been killed. Thirteen climbers and three crew members on board a Mi-8 were lost in a mountainous region after their helicopter made an emergency landing. — Xinhua
Kenya president urges citizens
to arrest the corrupt
NAIROBI, Aug 13: President Uhuru Kenyatta urged Kenya's young people on Sunday to make citizen's arrests of those suspected of corruption, a vice that is endemic in the country. Critics have called Kenyatta's regime the most corrupt of the four leaders that Kenya has had since gaining independence from Britain in 1963. — AP