WASHINGTON – Democrats carrying significant campaign debt after winning a string of House and Senate races are grumbling about President-elect Barack Obama’s financial reserves, saying the party’s leader is sitting on a pile of cash while Democratic leaders are broke.
Obama’s organization retains some $30 million after his successful presidential bid, but it’s unclear how the [...]

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Toronto – Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper is fighting for his political life, launching a public relations blitz after a coalition of opposition parties formed an alliance this week, vowing to topple the Conservative minority government reelected only seven weeks ago.
In a rare address to the nation Wednesday night, the prime minister pleaded with Canadians [...]

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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – It may take up to half a year for the United Nations to deploy 3,000 new peacekeepers in eastern Congo, which is why it would help to have a bridging force from the European Union, the U.N. chief said on Friday.
“Practically speaking, it would take a long time — the best [...]

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As piracy explodes off Somalia’s lawless coast, the questions become ever more stark: How can ragtag bands of Somali pirates stand up to international warships? And why not just shoot the bandits when they try to clamber aboard?
First, the pirates are not as ragtag as one might expect. And second, it’s a big ocean.
In Somalia, [...]

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LONDON (AFP) – British Foreign Secretary David Miliband slammed the Zimbabwean government Friday as a “rogue” regime, saying President Robert Mugabe has dashed hope for change via a power-sharing agreement.
Speaking a day after London pledged extra aid to fight a cholera epidemic in its ex-colony, he said the world was watching “with horror” at suffering [...]

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GEORGE, South Africa - Portugal and the United States stunned the South Africa Sevens by reaching the quarter-finals Friday.
Portugal, only part-time participants in the sevens world series, upset Samoa, Wales and Kenya to top a pool for the first time and reach only its second quarter-finals. The Americans, selected as a core team only this [...]

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By JEFF OTIENO IN KISUMU
Independent Audit firm,  Deloitte and Touche have given Sugar outfit Mumias Sugar a clean bill of health at the just concluded financial year 2008
During a colourful Annual General Meeting (AGM) held at the Tom Mboya Labour College (COTU) Kisumu, the group said they were impressed by the way the sugar miller [...]

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By Agwanda Jakorando
THE DANISH GOVERNMENT has committed approximately shs.1.3 billion to help in developing business partnership programs between Kenyan Fishing industry and the Danish business men, Danish Ambassador to Kenya Bo Jensen has said.
The Danish Ambassador said his government has already disbursed approximately DKK 75 million [about shs.1 billion] to jumpstart the program in the [...]

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