By Jeff Mason and David Alexander
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - In his second big trip abroad since becoming U.S. president, Barack Obama pledged strong support on Thursday for the Mexican government’s fight against powerful drug cartels, who are waging turf wars along the border.
Obama, who made his first major foray onto the international stage in Europe [...]

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By Jim Macdonald, The Canadian Press
EDMONTON - Once Canada’s economic engine, Alberta is now signalling that the province may be forced to hike taxes and make painful cuts unless Ottawa agrees to help with more cash for health care.
Alberta “can’t carry the country” during this recession, Premier Ed Stelmach said Thursday as he demanded a [...]

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TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran is set to hang a woman convicted of committing a murder as a minor, but she could escape the gallows if the victim’s family pardons her, a newspaper reported on Thursday.
 
Delara Darabi, 23, was found guilty of murdering a relative during a burglary she carried out along with a friend at [...]

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CHARLESTON, South Carolina (AFP) - Wimbledon champion Venus Williams crashed out of the Charleston WTA claycourt tournament on Thursday, losing 6-4, 7-6 (7/5) to German 16th seed Sabine Lisicki.
 
Second seed Williams, who was the champion here in 2004, sent down five double faults and showed the same weaknesses in her game that were obvious in [...]

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Youths uproot railway over Migingo row
By Standard Team
The dispute over Migingo Island threatened to balloon into a regional security issue as youths in Nairobi’s Kibera slums uprooted a railway line linking the two countries to protest at continued occupation of the island by Ugandan soldiers.
Government Spokesman Alfred Mutua announced yesterday Kenya and Uganda would hold [...]

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How RTD CGS GEN. MAHMOUD MOHAMMED PLAYED A GREAT ROLE DESTROYING THE KENYA 82′ COUP
We are commemorating the 26th year since the awful ‘82 Coup, when Kenya Airforce soldiers were tricked in mutiny to overthrow the government of then President Moi and failed,
The air force troops apparently took over the KBC TV and radio station [...]

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By Martin Ngatia
Chairperson
Kenya Scandinavia Democratic Movement (KESDEMO)
August 1st 2007 was a day when the memory of the 1982 August coup in Kenya was observed by those concerned. During this period of reminisce, the Kenya People’s Democratic Movement (KESDEMO) joins other Kenyans in remembering more than 2000 Kenyans who were killed during the coup attempt on [...]

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