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The commission’s chairperson Sarah Serem said the economy could not sustain higher salaries due to low revenue collection and natural disasters/FILENAIROBI, Kenya, May 13 - The Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC) has stood firm in rejecting a pay demand by Members of Parliament despite...
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File picture for illustration only shows a New Orleans Police motorcycle/AFPWASHINGTON, May 13 - Nineteen people were hurt in a shooting at a Mother’s Day parade in New Orleans, police said, as the mayor called for an end to "relentless" violence on the streets of the southeastern US city....
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Park, South Korea’s first woman leader, vowed that all the facts would be investigated so that no "single speck" of suspicion remained/FILESEOUL, May 13 - South Korean President Park Geun-Hye personally apologised on Monday for an "unsavoury" incident during her US summit visit that led to...
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Map of Tanzania locating Arusha, where an attack on a church left three dead/AFP RIYADH, May 13 - A Saudi arrested after a deadly attack a week ago killed three people in a packed church in Tanzania has been freed without charge, the government announced on Sunday. "Saudi citizen Said bin Mohsen al...
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Protruding leaves of a plant/FILE PARIS, May 13 - More than half of common species of plants and a third of animal species are likely to see their living space halved by 2080 on current trends of carbon emissions, a climate study said on Sunday. Output of man-made greenhouse gases is putting Earth...
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Deputy President William Ruto loading relief food airlifted to affected families last month. Photo/FILE.NAIROBI Kenya May 12- The flood situation along the River Nyando Basin in Nyanza has worsened after the river burst its banks, displacing more than 1,000 people. Three schools have been closed...
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Musyoka congratulates the newly installed Machakos ACK Bishop Joseph Kioko Mutungi at the All Souls’ Cathedral Machakos/CFMMACHAKOS, Kenya, May 12 - Wiper Democratic Movement Party leader Kalonzo Musyoka has disclosed that he is not ready to go back to Parliament. Musyoka said he was content...
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A rescue worker carries an empty body bag past discarded schoolbags/AFP BEIJING, May 12 - China Sunday marked the fifth anniversary of the Sichuan earthquake which killed more than 80,000 but some said questions remained over the thousands of children who died as their schools collapsed. The 8.0...
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The 28-member committee is expected to submit its report to Parliament on Tuesday afternoon. Photo/FILE.NAIROBI, Kenya May 12- The National Assembly Committee on Appointments was holed up in a Nairobi hotel on Sunday to prepare a final report on the suitability of 16 cabinet secretary nominees...
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Nicaragua deported Retamal after detaining him without charges for four days/AFP MANAGUA, May 12 - Nicaragua deported a Chilean Agence France-Presse photojournalist to Costa Rica after detaining him without charges for four days. "I am happy to be free," Hector Retamal said upon his arrival at the...
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The officer was shot dead on Saturday night when gunmen stormed a police station and opened fire at officers having meals at the canteen./CFM.NAIROBI, Kenya May 12 – A police officer was shot dead and several others wounded in an attack at a police station in Mandera, hours after the government...
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The former Tourism Minister is among sixteen cabinet nominees in President Uhuru Kenyatta’s government. Photo/CFM.NAIROBI, Kenya, May 12 - The parliamentary Committee on Appointments concluded vetting cabinet nominees on Saturday and is now expected to table a report in parliament on Tuesday...
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Attorney General Githu Muigai. Photo/ FILE NAIROBI, Kenya, May 11- Attorney General Githu Muigai has disowned the application asking the United Nations Security Council to terminate the two cases against Kenyans at the International Criminal Court (ICC). The Chief Legal Advisor to the government...
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Bangladeshi rescuers retrieve garment worker Reshma from the rubble of a collapsed building in Savar. Photo/ AFP SAVAR, Bangladesh, May 11 - Bangladeshi doctors treating a "miracle" survivor pulled from ruins of a collapsed building after 17 days said Saturday she was doing "great" and had been...
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County Reps from Nairobi are among those agitating for higher pay. Photo/FILE NAIROBI, Kenya, May 11 - Members of County Assemblies across the country have vowed not to play their legislative role in the devolved governments until the central government gives in to their demands for a pay increase...
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Former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt, listens to his sentence during his trial in Guatemala City, May 10. Photo/ AFP GUATEMALA CITY, May 11 - Former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt was found guilty of genocide and war crimes in a landmark ruling stemming from massacres of indigenous...
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Mandera, Garissa and Wajir counties have experienced high insecurity cases in the recent past./CFMNAIROBI, Kenya, May 11 -The government has now deployed the military to Mandera to disarm both local and foreign militia which has been reigning terror on residents there. Deputy President William Ruto...
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The former Cabinet Minister is the nominee Secretary for Lands, Housing and Urban Development/ Photo/ FILE NAIROBI, Kenya, May 10- The vetting of Cabinet Secretaries entered its second day on Friday with five more nominees interviewed on their suitability to hold dockets proposed by President Uhuru...
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Voters display their national identity cards as they queue up to cast their vote in Islamabad. Photo/ AFP ISLAMABAD, May 11 - Pakistanis queued up to vote in landmark elections across the country on Saturday, defying deadly Taliban attacks to take part in an historic democratic transition for the...
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Davis Chirchir told the vetting team he has already relinquished his post as URP Secretary General/CFM.NAIROBI, Kenya, May 11- Davis Chirchir, the former Secretary General of Deputy President William Ruto’s United Republican Party (URP) faced tough questions over his past career when he appeared...
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President Kenyatta and his wife Margaret are in South Africa where they met Kenyans living there./CFM.NAIROBI, Kenya, May 11- President Uhuru Kenyatta has reaffirmed his government’s commitment of putting in place measures to ensure that Kenyans in the Diaspora vote in the next General Election....
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The West Wing houses the Oval Office and the offices of President Barack Obama’s key staff/AFPWASHINGTON, May 11 - The West Wing of the White House was temporarily evacuated on Saturday morning after a minor electrical problem set off a smoke alarm, a White House official said. "Early this am...
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The resolution was reached at a meeting on Friday chaired by Deputy President William Ruto who visited Bungoma to assess the volatile situation in the region/FILENAIROBI, Kenya, May 10 - The government has now resolved to deploy an additional 150 GSU officers to Bungoma to maintain security in a...
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Commission Chairperson Margaret Kobia said the list of 66 would be submitted to President Uhuru Kenyatta by midnight Friday for him to select his appointees/FILENAIROBI, Kenya, May 10 - Sixty six candidates have been shortlisted by the Public Service Commission (PSC) for the positions of Principal...
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Ngewa County Rep Karungo wa Thangwa NAIROBI, Kenya, May 10 - As some County ward representatives boycott work demanding work stations and better pay, Ngewa ward representative Karungo wa Thangwa has literally pitched office at the Kwa Maiko market where he attends to his constituents every Tuesday...