By Richard Cowan
 
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Democratic-led U.S. Congress took steps on Thursday to give President-elect Barack Obama the weapons he wants to fight a worsening economic recession by advancing legislation to provide nearly $1.2 trillion in emergency spending.
The House of Representatives and Senate worked on two separate but related tracks in an attempt to [...]

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By The Canadian Press
 
OTTAWA - The country’s premiers have arrived in Ottawa with a multibillion-dollar wishlist for Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
The premiers want huge investments in infrastructure - money they say is needed to stimulate the flagging economy.
They sit down together this afternoon before heading into an evening meeting with Harper and national aboriginal leaders.
The [...]

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GAZA CITY (AFP) - Israel killed a top Hamas leader on Thursday as tanks pressed into the heart of Gaza City setting landmark buildings ablaze, including a hospital filled with refugees that was engulfed in a ball of flames.
 
Said Siam , interior minister in Gaza’s Hamas government, was slain along with his brother and son [...]

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Zimbabwe plans elections but MDC leader says still committed to deal
By KITSEPILE NYATHI, NATION Correspondent and AgenciesPosted
In Summary
Zimbabwe electoral commission prepares for eight parliamentary by-elections as MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai, returning to Zimbabwe on Saturday for the first time since November, says he is committed to the deal.
HARARE, Thursday
Zimbabwe’s electoral commission says it is preparing [...]

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Team set up to manage affairs of coalition
By Standard Team
With a difficult year ahead for the delicate Grand Coalition Government — and indeed the country — the two principals on Thursday picked a team to midwife its affairs.
In a move seen as a last ditch effort to smoothen the affairs of the often garrulous affair [...]

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By Agwanda Jakorandoh
POLICE in Kuria district have arrested a man suspected to have conned hundreds of people on the pretext of securing them positions at the Kenya Police Training College in Kiganjo.
Nyanza Deputy Police boss, Larry Kieng said  40 year old Livingstone Ndururu was arrested after police raided his house following a tip off from [...]

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TENDER CANCELLED DUE TO CORRUPTION
By JEFF OTIENO
Chemelil Sugar Company has cancelled its security tender indefinitely due to alleged corruption by some unscrupulous security firms which offered their bids.
The tender which was advertised on 12th November 2008 in the press was formally to close on 5th December and the bidders were officially invited.
All bidding documents were [...]

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Graft: Ministers, PSs asked to resign
BY ANTHONY KAGIRI
The National Anti-Corruption Campaign Steering Committee (NACCSC) wants all top officials implicated in a raft of major scandals to go home, as the government conducts a thorough probe.
At a press conference on Thursday, Committee Chairperson Rose Arungu was adamant that the Ministers and Permanent Secretaries of Agriculture and [...]

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