The cut won’t prevent HIV, medics warn
By Peter Atsiaya
Medics have warned Nyanza men who have embraced circumcision that the cut was not a leeway to engage in unprotected sex.

Assistant Director of Public Health and Sanitation Peter Cherutich and Nyanza Provincial Public Health and Sanitation Officer Charles Okal said the Government was faced with a [...]

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DETROIT, Michigan (AFP) - Democrat Barack Obama complained Sunday it was an “outrage” that taxpayers had to bail out Wall Street but said a newly minted deal in Congress took stock of his demands and was essential to rescue the economy.
In prepared remarks for a rally here in the nation’s automaking capital, the White House [...]

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WASHINGTON (AFP) - Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao said in an interview aired Sunday that the international approach to Iran’s disputed nuclear program should focus on negotiations and avoid piling pressure on Tehran.
Wen, in his first interview with the American media in five years, said major powers should pursue peaceful talks with Iran “rather than [...]

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By The Canadian Press
TORONTO - Jack Layton rolled out a big-budget campaign platform Sunday that he hopes will win over voters and make his NDP the main alternative to the Harper Tories.
The no-deficit plan promises a big new baby bonus, better health care, and help for aboriginals and students - much of which would [...]

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WASHINGTON (AFP) - US lawmakers Sunday reached a deal on an unprecedented 700-billion-dollar bailout for struggling Wall Street institutions to avert the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.
“We have given the (treasury) secretary the authority and the resources and the flexibility necessary, that he feels is necessary,” Republican negotiator Judd Gregg said as he [...]

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Omukama Oyo sounds the royal drum at the Karuziika (palace) on SaturdayOyo marks 13 years
By Raymond Baguma and Emmanuel Kajubu
THE Toro cultural leader and world’s youngest ruling monarch, Omukama Oyo Nyimba, on Saturday celebrated his 13th empango (coronation anniversary) at his palace in Fort Portal.
King Oyo ascended the throne in 1995, at [...]

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Hijacked ship surrounded
By NATION Team
Naval ships and fighter aircraft have surrounded the ship hijacked by Somali pirates while ferrying tanks and other military equipment to Kenya.
Speaking to the Nation on the phone on Sunday one of the pirates, Mr Sugum Ali, confirmed they were surrounded but insisted they would not surrender. [...]

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Fresh claims Kabuga still hiding in Kenya.
By Sukhdev Chhatbar
Rwanda genocide fugitive, Felicien Kabuga is still hiding in Kenya.
The spokesman of the Office of Prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) claimed Kabuga’s last known address was in Kenya.
“The last known location of Kabuga [Kenya] has not changed … we stick to it,’’ said [...]

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Nakuru IDP camp home to criminal gangs
By Steve Mkawale
Criminals have infiltrated a Nakuru displaced peoples’ camp, two MPs have claimed.
Legislators Luka Kigen of Rongai and his Nakuru town counterpart Lee Kinyanjui separately asked the Government to speed up resettlement of the remaining 10,000 IDPs at the showground.The leaders said gangs operating in Nakuru and [...]

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