President Kibaki (left) chairs a past Cabinet meeting. On Thursday, he urged Parliament to speed up debate on constitutional review. Photo/FILE
Now Cabinet moves to end school riots
By LUCAS BARASA and PPS
In Summary
1) Cabinet ordered the Education Ministry to enforce discipline and restore calm among students
2) Ministers also called for speedy law review [...]
But Uhuru avoided being drawn into the question by BBC TV Hard Talk anchor Stephen Sackur.
But Angote recalled independence history, saying the British government gave Kenya huge amounts of money in 1964 to resettle landless Kenyans when her citizens, former colonial masters, returned home at the dawn of ‘uhuru’.
“The colonialists left behind a lot of [...]
By Jitendra Joshi
Democrats Thursday accused a “desperate” John McCain of offering voters a paucity of hope, after the Republican invoked Britney Spears to damn Barack Obama as nothing more than a glitzy showman.
Obama’s White House campaign, berating McCain for stooping to the “low road” of politics, pounced on newspaper headlines across the United States that [...]
BY GEORGE MUNYORI
NAIROBI, July 31 - Former Finance Minister Amos Kimunya was on Thursday reprimanded in Parliament for taking the Grand Regency debate outside the House.
Kimunya had told a public gathering in Kinangop, attended by the Speaker of the National Assembly Kenneth Marende and Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka, that a vote of no confidence against [...]
By MIKE CORDER, Associated Press Writer
THE HAGUE, Netherlands - Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic appeared at the U.N.’s Yugoslav war crimes tribunal for the first time Thursday, telling the judge he would defend himself against charges of genocide and crimes against humanity.
Appearing older and thinner than during the Bosnian war and shorn [...]
By AMY TEIBEL, Associated Press Writer
Benjamin Netanyahu, a hard-liner on territorial concessions to the Arabs, called Thursday for early Israeli elections a day after Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said he will resign over a corruption scandal.
Polls predict former prime minister Netanyahu, who leads the right-wing Likud party, would likely win if an election were held [...]
BY EDDY KIMANI
There is grumbling in the Kenya Olympics team camp over the scheduling of departure dates to Beijing, China.
A number of athletes are unhappy with the flight schedules, complaining that they would arrive in China either too early or too close to their competition dates.
The first batch has been booked to depart on Friday, [...]
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