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Archive photo shows a vehicle leaving the United Nations compound in Mogadishu 17 October 2007/AFP Somalia’s Al-Qaeda linked Shebab insurgents shot and blasted their way into the United Nations compound in Mogadishu Wednesday, leaving eight people dead in the most serious attack on the UN in...
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First Lady Margaret Kenyatta feeds a baby elephant/WildlifeDirect NAIROBI, Kenya, Jun 19 – Conservationist have lauded government action in the face of rampant poaching but said a sustained and coordinated approach is require to crush the increasingly sophisticated criminal cartels that threaten...
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Hundreds of garment workers gather during a protest/AFP DHAKA, June 19 - Owners of a Bangladesh garment factory were forced to offer prayers and distribute food to the poor on Wednesday in a bid to drive out what workers believed was a ghost at the plant, police said. Some 3,500 workers stopped...
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Cabinet Secretary in charge of Labour and Social Services Kazungu Kambi said on Wednesday that a lot of manpower went to waste because of work related accidents that are not sufficiently compensated/FILENAIROBI, Kenya, Jun 19 - Employees who work under risky conditions will soon have a reason to...
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Former South African President Nelson Mandela/AFP JOHANNESBURG, Jun 19 - Nelson Mandela’s foundation has vowed to press ahead with upcoming 95th birthday celebrations, as the global peace icon underwent a twelfth day in hospital Wednesday for a recurring lung infection. On the frail icon...
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Head of the EU delegation to Kenya agreed with the EU Election Observation Mission to Kenya’s final report that stated the March 4 presidential election results reflected the will of Kenyans/FILENAIROBI, Kenya, Jun 19 – The Head of the European Union (EU) delegation to Kenya Lodewjik Briet has...
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Nairobi County Govt workers protest outside City hall/MIKE KARIUKINAIROBI, Kenya, Jun 19 – Operations at the Nairobi County government were paralysed on Wednesday after hundreds of workers downed their tools demanding to be paid their May salaries. They stopped working and vowed not to resume work...
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Former President Mwai Kibaki had dismissed the Governors’ demand for three vehicles with specially marked plates, diplomatic passports, eight body guards and a national flag/PPSNAIROBI, Kenya, Jun 19 - President Uhuru Kenyatta has ordered government agencies to issue all Governors with diplomatic...
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Abolitionists gather in Madrid to push for end to death penalty/ECPMMADRID, Jun 19 – World leaders who had gathered in Madrid for the 5th World Congress against Death Penalty have resolved to push for global end to capital punishment. Led by the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki Moon, Tunisia...
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Swiss Finance Minister Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf (far R) speaks on June 18, 2013 before the Swiss National Council in Bern/AFP GENEVA, Jun 19 - Swiss lawmakers rejected Wednesday a deal proposed by Washington to halt ruinous US legal action provided that Swiss banks that helped stash cash expose...
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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...