LONDON (AFP) - US President Barack Obama and Russia’s Dmitry Medvedev launched a milestone quest Wednesday to slash their nuclear arsenals, hoping to reverse the worst slump in the former foes’ ties since the Cold War.
 
In their first face-to-face talks, Obama and Medvedev also upped pressure on Iran over its nuclear programme and agreed the [...]

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Akinyi’s back, fighting and kicking away
By SAMMY CHEBOI
It’s 11.45am at the Deepwest Resort Club. Anthony Chinedu and Joyce Akinyi, the estranged couple exchange bitter words and a blow is thrown to mark a return to their feuding ways.And this time, the feud is about property.
Ms Akinyi, who only two days ago arrived in the country [...]

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Kenya’s Josephine Achieng Owino (right).
By PHILIP ONYANGO
Kenya’s national basketball team player Josephine Achieng Owino will become the first Kenyan to play in the world’s top women’s basketball league, the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) league.
The six-foot-four Mombasa High School alumnus and former Kenya Commercial Bank Lioness centre was drafted by Indiana at the end of [...]

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By Edy Ochang’
THE recent decision by Kenya Union of Journalist Secretary General,Erick Orina to move to court to quash the return of COTU Sec.Gen Francis Atwoli to the National Social Security Fund board was done without the blessing of the Union’s members and  has been trashed by the Union’s members from both Nyanza and Western [...]

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By Khaguli Nandwa Maurice
Western Kenya Movement For Change- (W.K.M.C.-Diaspora)
(Toronto)
What the Luhya people need is strong social, economic and political planning to make them equal partners in sharing the “National Cake.” Not lobbyists for the crumbs that remain when the party is over. Hon. Mudavadi, even after twenty plus years in politics has not proved that [...]

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BY CATHERINE KARONG’O
Kenya’s Capital City, Nairobi, has now been declared to be at risk of a cholera outbreak that has hit some parts of the country.
 
Director of Public Health, Dr Shahnaaz Sharif, said on Wednesday that the Ministry of Public Health was taking precautions to ensure no cases occurred in Nairobi, which was a transit [...]

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