By John Whitesides, Political Correspondent
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Presidential rivals Barack Obama and John McCain shifted the campaign focus back to the faltering U.S. economy on Monday, with Obama convening an all-star panel of advisers to help him hatch new approaches to a deepening problem.
Obama met in Washington with a group that included billionaire investor Warren [...]
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LONDON (Reuters) - Two out of five male South African students say they have been raped, according to a study published on Tuesday suggesting sexual abuse of boys is endemic in the country’s schools.
The survey published in BioMed Central’s International Journal for Equity in Health showed that boys were most frequently assaulted by [...]
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An international lobby group has called for military aid to Kenya to be halted until an inquiry is held into a crackdown in the west of the country.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) says dozens of people have “disappeared” in Mount Elgon after local men were rounded up.
The operation was intended to [...]
Nyong’o, Ngilu defend appointments
By Standard Team
Two Cabinet ministers last night dug in for a fight as the storm over jobs swirled, sucking the eighth ministry — Agriculture.
Prof Anyang’ Nyong’o, the Medical Services minister, and Mrs Charity Ngilu, his counterpart at the Water ministry, defended their actions and dared critics to drop the gauntlet at [...]
Orengo: Return land or go to jail
By Willis Oketch
Lands Minister James Orengo, has asked land grabbers to surrender public plots or risk prosecution.
Orengo, who was addressing Lamu residents, said grabbers of public land would not be spared when he implements the Ndung’u Land Commission Report.
“Some of these people have grabbed hospital land, school plots, [...]
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A French charity has accused Greece of creating a “humanitarian crisis” for hundreds of illegal migrants detained on the Mediterranean island of Lesbos.
Medecins Sans Frontieres says about 800 migrants are living in overcrowded rooms in the detention centre without proper sanitation or medical care.
Greece has not commented but has previously [...]
By Nick Bryant
BBC News, Sydney
The new Australian government has abandoned the country’s controversial policy of jailing all asylum seekers.
In a major overhaul of immigration rules, the policy of detaining would-be asylum seekers in often remote jails will now be used only as a last resort.
Children will no longer be held. [...]
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Unnamed sources in Zimbabwe’s MDC opposition say historic talks with the governing Zanu-PF party are deadlocked.
A dispute has apparently arisen over a push by President Robert Mugabe’s party to have MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai appointed “third vice-president”.
The MDC sources said this was “insulting”, and reflected negatively on the talks’ facilitator, [...]
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada will investigate why its troops opened fire on a car in southern Afghanistan, killing two small children, Defence Minister Peter MacKay said on Monday.
He noted, however, that earlier probes into similar civilian deaths had always absolved the soldiers involved.
Military officials say a two-year-old boy and his four-year-old sister died when the [...]
LONDON (AFP) - Voters increasingly do not believe new policy initiatives or a fresh new leader can save the Labour party from electoral disaster, a new poll published Tuesday showed.
According to the Populus survey for The Times, the proportion of voters who believe that significant changes in key domestic policy areas like health, crime and [...]
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