Barack Obama’s statement on the situation in Mumbai from Friday, November 28th.
Michelle and I send our deepest condolences to the loved ones of the American citizens who lost their lives in the outrageous terrorist attacks in Mumbai. Our thoughts and prayers are with them, and with all who have been touched by this terrible tragedy.
These [...]

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President-elect Barack Obama, right, and his wife Michelle Obama, left, arrive at Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church to attend a funeral service, Friday, Nov. 28, 2008, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
CHICAGO — President-elect Barack Obama on Friday attended a funeral for a friend’s relative.
The service was for a family member of Eric Whitaker, Illinois’ former [...]

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Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper delivers a statement in the foyer of the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa November 28, 2008. Canada’s minority government teetered on the edge of collapse on Friday, just six weeks after its re-election, as opposition parties talked of forming a coalition to replace the ruling Conservatives.
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WINDHOEK (AFP) - A regional tribunal ruled Friday that 78 white Zimbabweans can keep their farms because the government’s land reform scheme discriminated against them, in a key test of the new court’s influence.
 
Judge Luis Mondlane, president of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) tribunal, said that Zimbabwe had violated the treaty governing the 15-nation [...]

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Kibaki ignores activists, assents TJRC Bill
BY ROBIN NJOGU and PPS
President Mwai Kibaki has ignored demands from the civil society and signed into law, the establishment of a Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission (TJRC) to probe historical human rights abuses and bring about national cohesion.
The commission will investigate crimes committed since independence in 1963, to [...]

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By Ravi Nessman, The Associated Press
MUMBAI, India - Commandos ended a siege of the luxury Oberoi hotel on Friday while other forces rappelled from helicopters to storm a besieged Jewish centre, two days after a chain of militant attacks across India’s financial centre left at least 143 people dead, including one Canadian.
While explosions and gunfire [...]

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By The Canadian Press
OTTAWA - Former Liberal prime minister Jean Chretien and one-time NDP leader Ed Broadbent are brokering a possible agreement under which the two parties could form a coalition government.
A senior NDP official has told The Canadian Press the talks began Thursday soon after Finance Minister Jim Flaherty delivered an economic update that [...]

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Police in Kisumu have arrested six con men with fake money amounting to Sh. 146,000.
Nyanza police Chief Anthony Kibuchi says the suspects were arrested in Kisumu town last evening after police were tipped.
Kibuchi says a man who was about to be conned Sh. 73,000 by the suspects alerted police who arrived at the hotel where [...]

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KBC REPORTER ATTACKS COLLEAGUE OVER MONEY
By Agwanda Jakorando
DRAMA AS Kenya Broadcasting Corporation reporter in a fight. An unusual drama was witnessed in Kisumu during a PNU party delegates meeting when a regional reporter with the state owned Television station Kenya Broadcasting Corporation battered a reporter with The People Daily over a disagreement of the money [...]

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Kenyan politician confused over Waki report ?
By Agwanda Jakorando
MEMBERS of the Civil Society Organizations (CSO) have accused the country’s political leaders of creating confusion over the Waki report on post election violence.
The CSO representatives at a forum in Kisumu said the politicians had deliberately watered down the implications of the Waki report to the extent that the [...]

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