By John Whitesides, Political Correspondent
INDEPENDENCE, Missouri (Reuters) - Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama rejected questions about his patriotism on Monday even as he drew fire for a supporter’s attack on Republican rival John McCain’s military record.
Obama kicked off the week leading up to the July 4 Independence Day celebration with a broad-ranging speech extolling American [...]
Kondele shooting video clip replayed in court
By Wahome Thuku
The video clip in which a police officer was captured shooting two demonstrators during the post-election unrest in Kisumu was played four times in a Nairobi court.
The pictures captured by KTN on January 16 at Kondele market was produced following a High Court order.
It is crucial [...]
PARIS (AFP) - France took the European Union helm on Tuesday with President Nicolas Sarkozy calling for profound changes in building Europe following the setback over Ireland’s ‘No’ to the bloc’s key reform treaty.
“There have been errors in the way that Europe has been built,” Sarkozy acknowledged during a television interview on the eve of [...]
(File Photos-Ivory-Soldiers)ABIDJAN (AFP) - The peace process in the Ivory Coast is in jeopardy following an uprising of former rebel soldiers at the weekend, a senior official warned on Monday.
“This is a crisis situation for Ivory Coast,” Alain Lobognon, an aide of Prime Minister Guillaume Soro told AFP. “The peace process is in danger because [...]
By Michael Casey, The Associated Press
BANGKOK - A Canadian at the centre of an international hunt for a pedophile whose obscured face appeared in hundreds of pornographic images posted online will be sentenced Aug. 15 for the sexual abuse of a 13-year-old boy from Thailand.
A Bangkok court announced the sentencing date Monday for Christopher [...]
By Alex Ndegwa
A visiting US Senator has given an assurance that Congress will approve Sh960 billion ($15 billion) anti-Aids funding for Africa and Kenya will be a key beneficiary.
Florida Senator William Nelson, who is in the country, expressed optimism that Congress would re-authorise the President’s Emergency Plan for Aids Relief (Pepfar) funds to combat the [...]
By John Parry
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The world’s biggest bond fund manager anticipates that Barack Obama will be the next U.S. president, and warns that he will face stern economic circumstances.
Bill Gross, chief investment officer of Pacific Investment Management Co, or PIMCO, manages the $130 billion PIMCO Total Return Fund.
In his monthly “Investment Outlook” letter [...]
By Skye Wheeler
(File Photo-M7 inspecting UPDF)
JUBA, Sudan, June 30 (Reuters) - The government of South Sudan ordered Ugandan troops hunting rebels of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) to leave its territory on Monday.
( File Photo-Dr Machar)
South Sudan’s Vice-President Riek Machar said the decision was intended to avoid past mistakes, saying soldiers of the Ugandan [...]
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga urged the African Union (AU) on Monday to suspend Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe from the body.
“The African Union should not accept or entertain Mr. Mugabe,” Odinga told reporters in Nairobi. “He should be suspended until he allows the African Union to facilitate free and fair elections between [...]
By Opheera McDoom
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (Reuters) - African leaders on Monday pushed President Robert Mugabe to open talks with the opposition after he was re-elected unopposed in an election condemned as violent and unfair by the continent’s own monitors.
Mugabe, 84, flew to an African Union summit in Egypt soon after being sworn in for a [...]
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