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WASHINGTON, (AFP) - Senior Republican Senator Arlen Specter announced he was becoming a Democrat in a huge boost to President Barack Obama’s ability to drive his audacious agenda through the US Congress.
 
“As the Republican Party has moved farther and farther to the right, I have found myself increasingly at odds with the Republican philosophy and [...]

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By James Mccarten, The Canadian Press 
An escalating viral outbreak with pandemic potential continued its slow paralysis of Mexico’s once-bustling capital city Tuesday as a growing number of swine flu cases in the U.S., Canada and elsewhere left the world bracing for the impact of a deepening global public-health crisis.
Nowhere were matters more urgent than in [...]

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By DOUG ALDEN, AP Sports Writer
SALT LAKE CITY (AP)—The Utah Jazz’s stay in the playoffs has been getting progressively shorter.
Utah’s season is over after a lopsided series loss to the Los Angeles Lakers in the first round, leaving the Jazz with a very uncertain future as they consider how to improve and who they will [...]

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MOSCOW (AFP) - A Russian naval destroyer on Tuesday seized 29 suspected pirates off the coast of Somalia, the defence ministry said, according to Russian news agencies.
 
“The Admiral Panteleev (destroyer) captured Tuesday at 1412 GMT a boat carrying pirates. In total, 29 people were arrested,” the ministry said in a statement.
“Seven Kalachnikov machine-guns, handguns of [...]

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By Rev Okoth Otura
The International community shall not allow Kenya to drift back to another marathon catastrophe. It is unfortunate how the Gema elites would want to wreaked more havoc and caused more bloodshed of their own Kikuyus impoverished landless living among the ODM-jimbo stronghold at the Coast, Rift Valley, North Eastern, Nyanza and Western [...]

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BY LAURA WALUBENGO
Amnesty International (AI) has slammed the Kenyan police for not actively enforcing law and order to prevent the deaths of about 45 people in three-weeks of fighting between the dreaded Mungiki gang and armed community vigilante groups.
The human rights body said in a statement on Tuesday that it was unacceptable for the police [...]

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BY BERNARD MOMANYI
Constitutional expert Professor Hastings Winston Opinya Okoth-Ogendo went to Addis Ababa last week on invitation from the United Nations to deliver a paper on Land Policy and evidently hoped to return home.  But this was not to be.
He left the country on April 18, on assignment of the United Nations Economic Commission for [...]

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Tension is high at Kisumu Council over promotions
By Agwanda Jakorandoh

TENSION is high at the graft-ridden Kisumu Municipal Council over allegations that some senior departmental heads have refused to forward papers from junior staff that merit promotions to the Public Service Commission.
A circular from the Ministry of Local Government a couple of weeks and copied to [...]

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