WASHINGTON (AFP) - President-elect Barack Obama on Monday met with Mexican President Felipe Calderon to address his call for greater cross-border security and economic cooperation.
 
Since 1980 the Mexican leader — who also meets for a fifth and final time Tuesday with outgoing president George W. Bush at the White House — has been the first [...]

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By Lee-Anne Goodman, The Canadian Press
WASHINGTON - A prominent Canadian senator urged Barack Obama to send Omar Khadr home from Guantanamo Bay on Monday as aides to the U.S. president-elect sent their strongest signal yet they intend to waste little time closing down the controversial American prison.
And the military lawyer for Khadr said the expected [...]

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UNITED NATIONS (AFP) - UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Monday demanded an immediate end to the fighting in the Gaza Strip, as he prepared to travel to the Middle East in hopes of speeding a truce between Israel and Hamas.
“My message is simple, direct and to the point: the fighting must stop,” Ban said in [...]

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The meteoric rise and fall of Dr Achieng’ Ong’ong’a
By John Njiraini
The fall from grace of former Kenya Tourist Board (KTB) Managing Director Achieng’ Ong’ong’a last week brought to a close one of the most visible and memorable chapters in the history of the country’s tourism sector.
For a man who single-handedly put Kenya’s tourism sector [...]

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