A Thai gunman has been sentenced to life in prison for the murder of a Cambodian opposition politician in Bangkok.

French national Lim Kimya, a former opposition parliamentarian in Cambodia, was shot dead on January 7th by Ekkalak Paenoi.

Ekkalak faced a potential death sentence in Thailand for premeditated murder, but a judge said that the Bangkok court reduced his sentence to life imprisonment since he confessed.

The Thai man was arrested in neighbouring Cambodia a day after the shooting and admitted to murdering a livestream video.

The Moroccan government has said that it’s ready to address grievances fueling the youth-led protests that have engulfed the country for days.

The announcement comes a day after three people were killed by security forces as rioters tried to storm a police station.

Speaking to a council of ministers, Prime Minister Aziz Akhannouch said he was ready for dialogue and debate within institutions and public spaces.

Those taking part in the protests had accused the government of widespread corruption.

The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU), Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko, has threatened to embark on an indefinite strike over alleged unpaid salaries, arrears, and other unmet demands.

The threat comes as the university’s chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities has been on strike since August for the same reasons and has yet to resume.

Similarly, SSANU had earlier warned that the planned resumption of students and the forthcoming convocation ceremony could be disrupted if outstanding payments were not made.

The Chairman of the Joint Action Committee at AAUA, Olutayo Ogungbeni, accused the Ondo State Government of reneging on promises made in June two thousand and twenty-five to settle arrears and increase subvention to tertiary institutions.

Manchester United has finalised a deal to sign seventeen-year-old Colombian midfielder Cristian Orozco from Fortaleza CEIF.

The agreement was confirmed by transfer expert Fabrizio Romano.

According to Romano, United’s lawyers have approved all contracts, and lead scout Gerardo Guzmán Antonaccio coordinated the deal.

The young talent will join the Red Devils in the summer of 2026 upon turning eighteen.

Rescuers have said that there are no signs of life under the wreckage of a collapsed Indonesian school where fifty-nine people are still missing. Hundreds of students, most of them teenage boys, were inside the two-storey Islamic boarding school in the town of Sidoarjo when it collapsed.

Officials said that at least five students were killed and about one hundred were injured.

So far, thirteen people have been freed from the debris since rescue efforts began, though two later died in the hospital.