By Rev Okoth Otura
Toronto-Canada
To all our dearest readers, rejoice in the Lord always!
God’s Word says…
“God blesses those whose hearts are pure, for they will see God.” Matthew 5:8, NLT
3 Day Bible Reading…
Option One
Morning Reading: 26 Aug: Psalm 119: 89-176
27 Aug: Psalm 120, 121, 122
28 Aug: Psalm 123, 124, 125
Evening Reading: [...]

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NEWPORT NEWS, Virginia (AFP) - Exactly one month before the presidential vote, Democrat Barack Obama Saturday accused Republican rival John McCain of scheming to deprive millions more Americans of life-saving health insurance.
Ahead of their second debate on Tuesday, the White House hopefuls both unleashed new offensives in the final stretch before the November 4 election, [...]

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By Julian Beltrame, The Canadian Press
OTTAWA - The leaders of Canada’s two main opposition parties shifted their focus from fighting Prime Minister Stephen Harper to fighting each other Saturday after a new post-debate poll placed them in a statistical dead heat.
With the new Canadian Press Harris-Decima survey showing the New Democrats a mere two [...]

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WASHINGTON (AFP) - US immigration officials on Monday announced moves to ease and speed up visa-processing for HIV-positive visitors to the United States, months after a 21-year entry ban on people with the virus was lifted.
Under the new rules, US consular offices overseas will have the authority to grant temporary, non-immigrant visas to HIV-positive applicants [...]

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By Emma Vandore, The Associated Press
PARIS - A European summit on the global financial crisis opened Saturday with Britain’s leader saying strong banks should be protected and “whatever is necessary” must be done to restore stability.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown called on his European counterparts at the hastily arranged meeting in Paris to send the [...]

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(File photos Somalia Women Fighters)
Somali gunmen threaten Kenya over fighters’ arrest
KISMAYU, Somalia (Reuters) - Somali Islamists threatened Kenya on Saturday with unspecified action after police there arrested two of their gunmen.
The Islamist movement fighting Somalia’s government has twice before attacked Kenyan policemen holding some of its members for being in Kenya illegally.
“They were caught in [...]

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By William Oduor
Karl Marx once described the masses as a “sack of potatoes”. If there were no “leaders” to keep the masses together, they just scattered in different directions like holding an unsealed sack of potatoes upside down: the potatoes scatter in different directions. Who amongst us here is/are willing to gather a critical mass [...]

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PARIS (AFP) - IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn called Saturday on European countries to provide a united response to the financial crisis, following talks with French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
“In Europe there is a need for coordination,” Strauss-Kahn told journalists hours before a mini-summit of European leaders. “It has to be indicated to the markets… that European [...]

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