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20 Jul 2017 - Police on Wednesday released pictures of several suspected Al Shabaab operatives in a high value police terror list after reports indicated that the terror group was amassing fighters on the Somalia side of Boni forest after a renewed Kenyan effort to flush each...
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20 Jul 2017 - Kenya’s Bernard Koskei failed to prove his mettle in the 1500 metres T13 race in the on-going World Para Athletics games in London.
Koskei, who was the favourite, was relegated to the 9th position despite leading in the second lap.
He completed the race in a personal...
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20 Jul 2017 - BMW’s Oxford factory in England is currently the favored location for building an electric version of the Mini despite Britain’s planned departure from the European Union, two sources familiar with the company’s thinking told Reuters on Wednesday.
Any decision by the...
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20 Jul 2017 - A Nigerian court has ordered the temporary seizure of a $37.5 million property owned by a former oil minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke, the state news agency said.
This is the latest move related to graft allegations against a lynchpin of the last administration....
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20 Jul 2017 - Libyan military commander Khalifa Haftar, a figurehead in the east of the country, and Fayez Seraj, the head of a U.N.-backed government in Tripoli, will meet with French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris on July 25, al-Hayat newspaper reported.
The two men held...
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20 Jul 2017 - There was drama in a Nairobi estate when two women fought outside a salon attracting a huge crowd.
One of the women accused the other of backbiting her while she was accused of sleeping with the caretaker.
A crowd milled outside the salon as the two women tore into...
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20 Jul 2017 - Presidential candidate Ekuru Aukot has confirmed that he will attend the presidential debate scheduled for next week.
In a tweet posted on Thursday evening, Dr Aukot said that he will attend the debate to discuss and present his ideas to the people of Kenya.
I will...
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20 Jul 2017 - Chairperson of the African Union Commission Moussa Faki Mahamat on Thursday shared a photo of his meeting with Nasa presidential candidate Raila Odinga.
The photo prompted Kenyans on Twitter to advice the AU chairperson of what to tell President Uhuru Kenyatta as he...
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20 Jul 2017 - Nicholas Biwott was not secretive, he simply "measured his words" as it is taboo for members of the Kalenjin tribe to talk about certain aspects of their lives.Former minister Henry Kosgei said this on Thursday during the funeral service for the former powerful...
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20 Jul 2017 - The two leaders of a crime ring
that plundered Rome city coffers were convicted along with some
40 politicians, officials and businessmen on Thursday at the end
of one of the biggest corruption trials in the Italian capital.Massimo Carminati, a one-time member of Rome...
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20 Jul 2017 - Malaysia has banned the sexually-charged song 'Despacito' after critics labelled it "un-Islamic", a senior minister has said. The Muslim-majority country will no longer air the popular tune on its public broadcast stations after the government received numerous...
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20 Jul 2017 - Excessive drinking during adolescence thins areas of the developing brain, new research reveals. Teenagers that binge or heavily drink have reduced brain tissue in the regions associated with reason, logic, problem solving, planning and memory, a study found....
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20 Jul 2017 - AC Milan have completed the signing of
centre back Leonardo Bonucci from Italian champions Juventus on
a five-year contract, the club said on Thursday.The Italy international, capped 70 times, joined the
Milan-based club for a fee of 42 million euros ($48.3 million)...
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20 Jul 2017 - Gunmen, some of them in military uniforms, attacked the base of an elite security unit in Ivory Coast's main city, and stole stocks of weapons as part of a series of overnight clashes, the defence minister said on Thursday.The raid, late on Wednesday in Abidjan, was...
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20 Jul 2017 - Devolution CS Mwangi Kiunjuri has dismissed as fake a poll putting NASA presidential flagbearer Raila Odinga ahead of President Uhuru Kenyatta. Raila hired US-based polling firm Zogby, which reported that he is now the preferred choice with 47.4 per cent registered...
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20 Jul 2017 - A group of Seme community members and professionals has denounced elders who endorsed Kisumu Governor Jack Ranguma's re-election bid.On Friday, a group of more than 40 elders from the sub-county endorsed Ranguma saying he should be allowed to complete his projects....
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20 Jul 2017 - Congo President Joseph Kabila and his family own stakes in more than 80 companies at home and abroad that are likely worth 10s of millions of dollars, a report by a US-based body said on Thursday.The report by the Congo Research Group at New York University is based...
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20 Jul 2017 - Alibaba's Jack Ma has challenged young Kenyan entrepreneurs to speed up and grab opportunities under the third revolution of the Internet.Speaking at the University of Nairobi on Thursday, Ma said his success story was not based on the achievements of other people but...
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20 Jul 2017 - The nurses union has asked President Uhuru Kenyatta to stop re-election campaigns and focus on ending their strike, which is on its 46th day. Health workers in Taita Taveta county took to Wundanyi streets on Thursday saying the government should treat the strike as an...
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20 Jul 2017 - China's Alibaba expects its revenue to expand by 45 to 48 per cent in its fiscal year from April as more small businesses join its online community in search of sales.Alibaba had revenue of $22.99 billion in its year to the end of March."Our revenue this year, we will...
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20 Jul 2017 - Presidential candidate Ekuru Aukot has raised concern over alleged plans by the NASA coalition to set up a tallying centre in Tanzania.The Thirdway Alliance flag bearer made the remarks amid speculation that Raila Odinga's coalition has established a tallying centre...
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20 Jul 2017 - A state parole board
in Nevada convened on Thursday morning to consider OJ
Simpson's bid for freedom after nine years in prison for a
botched armed robbery of his own sports memorabilia in a Las
Vegas hotel room.The 70-year-old former football star, known best as the...
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20 Jul 2017 - Ram Nath Kovind (C) was elected India’s new president, the second time since independence a head of state has been chosen from the bottom of the Hindu caste system © AFP/File / Prakash Singh
NEW DELHI, India, Jul 20 – India elected a new president from the bottom of...
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20 Jul 2017 - Portland and GeoPoll hosted a panel discussion on the reality of fake news in Kenya on Wednesday/COURTESY
NAIROBI, Kenya, Jul 20 – “A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes,” a quote attributed to Mark Twain accurately...
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20 Jul 2017 - The censured have three days to comply with IEBC’s directives/FILE
NAIROBI, Kenya, Jul 20 – Vihiga’s Governor Moses Akaranga and Ndiritu Muriithi, vying for the governor’s seat in Laikipia County, are among the candidates who were on Thursday censured by the...
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20 Jul 2017 - More than 3.5 million people have been forced to flee their homes in South Sudan where tens of thousands have been killed in a civil war since independence six years ago © AFP/File / Albert Gonzalez Farran
United Nations, United States, Jul 20 – The United States...
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20 Jul 2017 - O.J. Simpson (R) participated in his parole hearing via videolink from the Lovelock Correctional Center in Nevada © POOL/AFP / Jason Bean
Los Angeles, United States, Jul 20 – Disgraced former American football star O.J. Simpson argued for his release from prison on...
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20 Jul 2017 - As Kenya, the UK and the rest of the world confront a raft of global challenges, effective leadership will matter more than ever.
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20 Jul 2017 - The different scenes of my first cholera epidemic make me cringe as the memories play in my mind.
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20 Jul 2017 - The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission's (IEBC) appeal against a High Court's ruling terminating the printing of presidential ballot papers tender awarded to the Dubai-based Al Ghurair firm sailed through the Appeals court yesterday.
