By Tamsyn Burgmann, The Canadian Press
TORONTO - It was the ill-advised actions of one nurse that pushed midwife Jay MacGillivray to put her foot down.
On-call and frequently on the move, MacGillivray found herself in a major Toronto hospital one day in 2005, wiping tears from a pregnant woman terrified she was going to lose [...]

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Don’t force Luo men to face the knife, PC warns
By Jack Nduri
The Government will punish those who force young Luos to undergo male circumcision.Nyanza PC Paul Olando said police and provincial administration were under instruction to arrest people coercing anyone to face the knife.
“It is purely voluntary. Nobody should be forced to face the [...]

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WASHINGTON - She burst onto the American political scene as Sarah ‘The Barracuda’ Palin, a confident, moose-hunting, hockey-mom governor whose razor-sharp attacks on Barack Obama, Washington insiders and the U.S. media “elite” helped revive John McCain’s presidential campaign in early September.
But as she prepares for her vice-presidential debate Thursday against Senator Joe Biden, Palin is [...]

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By The Canadian Press
OTTAWA - The five national party leaders are hunkering down in Ottawa, getting ready for the televised debates that could play a pivotal role in their fortunes on voting day.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper, NDP Leader Jack Layton and Green Leader Elizabeth May have all cleared their schedules for Tuesday, planning to [...]

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LOS CRISTIANOS, Spain (AFP) - Some 230 African migrants were taken to Spain’s Canary Islands after authorities rescued them at sea in the biggest-ever landing here of a single ship, officials said Tuesday.
Coastguards spotted the wooden boat when it was about 55 miles (90 kilometres) south of the Atlantic archipelago and took them to the [...]

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By Corresponence-Finland
The unregistered Christian Democratic Movement of Kenya (CDMK) European roving ambassador Ms Millicent Acheing’ is running for a political office in Finland. CDMK works closely with the European Christian Political Movement with its offices in Netherlands.

The arrangement for Ms Achieng to run for an office was negotiated by Rev Okoth Otura during his meeting [...]

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BY BERNARD MOMANYI and AFP
Hijackers of the Ukrainian ship off the Coast of Somalia clashed on Monday night, killing three of their own, according to the Mombasa-based maritime group of the East African Seafarers’ Assistance Programme.
The group’s official Andrew Mwangura told Capital News on Tuesday that a shoot-out had been reported following a clash between [...]

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