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Former US university professor Walter Lee Williams/AFP CANCUN, June 19 - Mexican officials said late Tuesday that they had arrested former US university professor Walter Lee Williams, an alleged child sexual predator on the FBI’s list of top 10 Most Wanted criminals. Williams was arrested in...
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Graphic map locating Ashland, Ohio/AFP CHICAGO, Jun 19 - A mentally disabled woman and her daughter were forced to live in an Ohio basement with snakes and pitbulls and were treated like slaves for more than two years, US prosecutors said. The case came to light after the woman was caught stealing...
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Local residents look out to the sea during heavy rain in Mumbai/AFP India, Jun 19 - Military helicopters carried out emergency food drops on Wednesday for thousands of people stranded by flash flooding from early monsoon rains which have killed at least 120 in northern India, officials said. The...
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A man walks on the beach of Grand-Bassam, a town 40 km east of Abidjan threatened by coastal erosion, on May 17, 2012/AFP WASHINGTON, June 19, 2013 (AFP) - The World Bank on Wednesday warned that severe hardships from global warming could be felt within a generation, with a new study detailing...
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South Sudanese President Salva Kiir has suspended two of his most senior and influential ministers/AFP JUBA, June 19, 2013 (AFP) - South Sudanese President Salva Kiir has suspended two of his most senior and influential ministers to launch investigations into an alleged multi-million dollar...
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Foreign Affairs Secretary Amina Mohammed said the government is instead consulting with the Nigerian government for the release of the Kenyans/FILENAIROBI, Kenya, Jun 19 – The government says it will not negotiate with assumed drug baron Anthony Chinedu for the release of eleven Kenyans being held...
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An AFP reporter said a loud explosion had been heard followed by heavy gunfire from the complex — home to UN humanitarian agencies — but the insurgents’ claims they had entered the compound could not be immediately verified/FILEMOGADISHU, Jun 19 - Somalia’s Al-Qaeda linked...
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A child dances in the middle of a road as rains fall/AFP JAKARTA, Jun 19 - Indonesia plans to use weather changing technology to try to unleash torrents of rain and extinguish raging fires on Sumatra island that have cloaked neighbouring Singapore in thick haze, an official said Wednesday. The city...
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The No. 3 reactor building, pictured in May 2012, at the stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant/AFP TOKYO, June 19 - Cancer-causing radioactive substances have been found in groundwater at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, its Japanese operator said Wednesday, as it pledged to prevent it...
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Police used teargas to disperse the traders who found the area sealed off following a court order barring them from operating on the disputed private piece of land/CFMNAIROBI, Kenya, Jun 18 - Dozens of traders and mechanics were arrested on Tuesday morning as they protested a move to evict them...
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KUPPET National Chairman Omboka Milemba has told Capital News that all secondary school teachers are under instructions to stay away from class until they get further directives from the Union/FILENAIROBI, Kenya, Jun 18 - The Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) insists that...
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CIC said the process of transferring functions to the County governments must be restructured to comply with the laid down procedures/CFMNAIROBI, Kenya, Jun 18 - The Commission for the Implementation of the Constitution (CIC) has expressed concern over the manner in which national government...
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Salim Mohammed’s widow, Rehema was charged for being in possession of an AK-47 and 147 rounds of ammunitions before a Magistrate’s Court in Shanzu on Tuesday but denied the accusations and was released on a Sh500,000 bond/FILEMOMBASA, Kenya, Jun 18 - The widows of two terror suspects...
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Every time she leaves the house there are a number of things she cannot leave behind, one of which is her nine month old son, at least 10 diapers, a blood glucose meter, a notebook and insulin/FELIX MAGARANAIROBI, Kenya, June 18 – Jane has transformed one of her handbags into a diaper bag. The...
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Speaker of the National Assembly Justin Muturi made the announcement during Tuesday’s House sitting and further ordered the House Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs to carry out approval hearing for the candidate by next Wednesday/FILENAIROBI, Kenya Jun 18 - President Uhuru Kenyatta has...
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The Committee has instead re-allocated part of the funds for the teachers’ salary to end the looming strike occasioned by demands dating back to 1997/FILENAIROBI, Kenya Jun 18 - The National Assembly’s committee on Budget and Appropriations on Tuesday rejected proposals by the government to...
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A French sailor kidnapped from a tanker in Togo when attackers sought to use him as a shield has been freed in the oil-producing region of Nigeria/AFP YENAGOA, June 18 - A French sailor kidnapped from a tanker in Togo when attackers sought to use him as a shield said Tuesday he has been freed in...
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Venus (top) crossing the sun’s face during the transit of Venus June 5, 2012 as seen from the west side of Manhattan in New York/AFP PARIS, June 18 - Already travelling at super hurricane speeds, winds on Venus have accelerated by an astonishing one-third over the past six years, the European...
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98 year old top Nazi war crimes suspect/AFP BUDAPEST, June 18 - Hungarian prosecutors on Tuesday charged a 98-year-old top Nazi war crimes suspect over his brutal alleged role in deporting some 12,000 Jews to death camps in World War II. Laszlo Lajos Csatari was "actively involved in and assisted...
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Presidents Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin struggled to hide their sharp differences on the conflict although they agreed they would push the fragile drive for a peace conference in Geneva/AFP ENNISKILLEN, June 18 - World leaders were to fight for a consensus on Syria on the final day of the G8...
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Screen shot of Monks in private jet wearing sunglasses, with Louis Vuitton bag (R) and expensive wireless head phones. BANGKOK, June 18 - The behaviour of Thailand’s Buddhist clergy has been thrust under the spotlight after footage emerged of three monks flying in a private jet, wearing...
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Auckland’s skyline and harbour, pictured in New Zealand, in 2011/AFPWELLINGTON, Jun 18 - A British man who miraculously survived a fall from a 15th-storey balcony in New Zealand while drunkenly trying to break into his apartment has labelled himself an "idiot". Tom Stilwell, 20, plummeted...
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Al Jazeera’s Yvonne Ndege, camera operator Romuald Luyindula, producer Mohammed Abubakar and driver Rabiu Abdullahi were held in Zinder, southern Niger/AL JAZEERAZINDER, Niger, June 18- A team of journalists from Al Jazeera’s Television network who had been held captive in a Niger jail for...
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Unfinished houses in Spain/AFP BOLLULLOS PAR DEL CONDADO, June 18 - The washbasin in Juana Alonso’s bathroom is brand new, but no water comes out of the tap. No bulbs hang from the light fittings. The house is unfinished; no one was meant to be moving in but Juana couldn’t wait. Along...
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Ruto had wanted to attend most of the trials set to start on September 10 via video link. CFM.NAIROBI, Kenya June 18 - The International Criminal Court Trial Chamber has ruled that Deputy President William Ruto must be physically present during the key trial sessions. In a decision released on...