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Cameron makes a speech at the G8 Open for Growth - Trade, Tax and Transparency conference at Lancaster House in central London on June 15, 2013/AFPLONDON, Jun 15 - Britain on Saturday struck a deal with its overseas territories clamping down on tax evasion, giving Prime Minister David Cameron a...
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Iranian moderate presidential candidate, Hassan Rowhani flashes the sign of victory as he leaves a polling station after voting on June 14, 2013 in Tehran/AFPTEHRAN, Jun 15 - Moderate cleric Hassan Rowhani has won Iran’s presidential election, the interior minister announced on Saturday,...
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Facebook "aggressively" protects its users’ data, the company’s general counsel Ted Ullyot said in a statement/FILEWASHINGTON, Jun 15 - Facebook revealed on Friday it received between 9,000 and 10,000 requests for user data from US authorities in the second half of last year, as it...
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Hassan Rowhani casts his vote at a polling station in Tehran on June 14, 2013/AFPTEHRAN, Jun 15 - Moderate cleric Hassan Rowhani, bolstered by a late surge in support from suppressed Iranian reformists, took an early lead in the presidential election to find a successor to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,...
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Project Loon hopes eventually to launch thousands of balloons to provide Internet to remote parts of the world/FILECHRISTCHURCH, Jun 15 - Google revealed top-secret plans on Saturday to send balloons to the edge of space with the lofty aim of bringing Internet to the two-thirds of the global...
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Smog is visible and affects the life of everyone, rich and poor/FILEBEIJING, Jun 15 - The State Council, or China’s cabinet, adopted a set of concrete measures to counter air pollution on Friday, demonstrating not only resolve but also action to cope with environmental issues. China’s...
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Children who grow up with an absent father are said to be more likely to go to prison, drop out of school, have substance abuse problems or become teenage parents themselves/FILEWASHINGTON, Jun 15 - President Barack Obama is reflecting on the hole left in his life by the absence of his father,...
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The bodyguard said he was "given leave" by his employers over accusations he leaked the place where Mandela was being treated to the media/FILEJOHANNESBURG, Jun 15 - Nelson Mandela is a very lonely man, one of his bodyguards told AFP on Saturday, accusing the ailing anti-apartheid icon’s...
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Former South African President Nelson Mandela leaves the Intercontinental hotel in London, on June 26, 2008/AFPQUNU, Jun 15 - Nelson Mandela seems to be on the road to recovery from a recurrent lung infection, a grandson said Saturday after visiting the anti-apartheid hero in hospital. Mandla...
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Kimaiyo’s appointment of County CID chiefs comes just a day after he deployed Kenya Police County Commanders to the 47 counties/FILENAIROBI, Kenya, Jun 15 -Inspector General of Police David Kimaiyo has now released the names of those who will head criminal investigations in the 47 counties. Among...
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“Those who kidnapped her felt the pressure as we closed in on them and decided to run but they left the girl behind,” he said/FILENAIROBI, Kenya, Jun 15 - A two-year-old girl kidnapped on her way home from school in Parklands on Thursday has been freed. Officer Munga Nyale of the Flying Squad told...
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Mbooni Member of Parliament Kisoi Munyao revealed that Kethi has reconsidered her decision not to vie for the Makueni Senate Seat/FILENAIROBI, Kenya, Jun 15 - The late Makueni Senator Mutula Kilonzo could after all be succeeded by his daughter Kethi Kilonzo. Mbooni Member of Parliament Kisoi Munyao...
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An Australian national reads a book after a sex reassignment surgery at a hospital/AFP SYDNEY, Jun 14 - Australia has embraced a growing global trend towards acknowledging greater gender diversity with individuals now able to be referred to as "indeterminate, intersex or unspecified" on official...
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Crowds of shoppers pack Oxford street/AFP UNITED NATIONS, Jun 14 - The world’s population will hit 7.2 billion next month and 10.9 billion by 2100, with most of the growth a result of high birthrates in the developing world, the United Nations said Thursday. The UN’s latest "World...
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A voter casts a ballot during the March 4 General Election. Photo/ FILE NAIROBI, Kenya, Jun 14 - The Court of Appeal has nullified a clause in the Elections Act which allowed presidential candidates and running mates who lose in polls to enter Parliament through party nominations. The National...
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Speaker of the National Assembly Justin Muturi. Photo/ FILE NAIROBI, Kenya, Jun 14 - Speaker Justin Muturi has denied claims that the National Assembly has ganged up with the Executive to undermine the spirit of devolution following the enactment of the Division of Revenue Bill by the president....
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Governor Kidero had on Tuesday ordered revocation of scrap metal licenses. Photo/ COURTESYNAIROBI, Kenya, Jun 14 - Nairobi Governor Evans Kidero has beaten a hasty retreat on the ban he issued on Tuesday for trade in scrap metal in the county. This follows protests from the Iron and Metal Scrap...
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The price of super petrol has gone down for the second month in a row. Photo/ FILE NAIROBI, Kenya, Jun 14 - The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) has further reduced the prices of super petrol and diesel by Sh5.06 a litre and Sh1.90 respectively in Nairobi occasioned by slump in the international...
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British High Commissioner to Kenya Christian Turner. Photo/ FILENAIROBI, Kenya, Jun 14 – The British High Commissioner to Kenya, Christian Turner, has called on those saying the Sh340,000 awarded to each of 5,228 Mau Mau war veterans is too little to instead focus on the gesture. Speaking to...
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Two people riding their bikes on a polluted street/FILE BONN, Jun 14 - Peru will host the 2014 ministerial-level climate conference — a key meeting just one year before the deadline for a new, global deal on curbing global warming, the UN’s climate chief said Friday. "COP 20 will be...
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The subsidies will be used to help poultry breeders stay in business, ensure their productivity and stabilize market supplies of poultry products/FILEBEIJING, Jun 14 - The government has granted subsidies of 300 million yuan ($48.54 million) to prop up the poultry sector as it struggles in the wake...
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Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Tim Mathieson/AFP SYDNEY, Jun 14 - An Australian radio presenter was sacked Friday after sparking outrage by pressing embattled Prime Minister Julia Gillard on air whether her hairdresser boyfriend Tim Mathieson is gay. The startling exchange came with...
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Police said the kidnapping occurred when the driver went to pick up the girl from a school within Parklands/FILENAIROBI, Kenya, Jun 14 - A two-year-old girl and a driver were kidnapped on Thursday afternoon in Nairobi’s Parklands suburb. Police said the kidnapping occurred when the driver...
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A policeman crossing the road/FILE SINGAPORE, Jun 14 - A British magazine editor has been fined $8,000 for spitting at a Singapore police officer after an alcohol-fuelled Christmas party last year, his lawyer said Friday. Forgan Duncan, the editor of Tiger Airways’ inflight magazine, was...
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NAIROBI, Kenya, Jun 14 - The Court of Appeal has ruled that immediate former President Mwai Kibaki acted constitutionally in appointing County Commissioners. Principal Secretary nominee Mutea Iringo had filed the appeal after the High Court initially ruled the commissioners were not legally in...