By Caren Bohan and Jeff Mason
 
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Thursday proposed to wring $17 billion in savings from the fiscal 2010 budget as he sought to allay worries about soaring deficits and build support for a hefty domestic agenda.
Unveiling the detailed version of a budget blueprint he outlined in February, Obama offered [...]

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By Junaid Khan
 
MINGORA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistan’s government ordered the army to eliminate militants on Thursday, setting the stage for a major offensive against Taliban fighters battling security forces in a northwestern valley.
The government’s handling of the Swat valley has become a test of its resolve to fight a growing Taliban insurgency that has alarmed [...]

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MAN APPEALS FOR HELP FOR HIS EYE OPERATION.
A thirty year old, orphaned and a widower man is appealing for financial help to enable him travel to Nairobi for his eye operation at Kenyatta National Hospital.
Speaking in Manyatta estate in Kisumu, where he is presently housed by his widowed sister-in-law Patricia Onyango, the victim Paul Bolo [...]

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Kenya: Born-Again PM Now Baptized
By Maverick Cleric
Kenya’s Prime Minister whose religious affiliation has sometimes been the subject of rumour is now a ‘born-again’ Christian and was baptized at the weekend by a self-styled prophet.
Raila Odinga was baptized by immersion at a private pool in Nairobi on Sunday by Prophet Dr David Owuor, a maverick evangelical [...]

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By Yasiin Mugerwa
Parliament
 
It may be 30 years since the war ended but Tanzanian authorities who came to Uganda as liberators still want the pay check for their contribution to the 1979 war that liberated Uganda from Dictator Idi Amin.
The bill sent to the Uganda government stands at $58m (about Shs120billion).
The Bill is contained in documents [...]

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By ANTHONY KARIUKI and JILLO KADIDA
In Summary
Judge Muga Apondi has said he will deliver his sentencing on Tuesday next week.
Lord Delamere’s kin Tom Cholmondeley has been found guilty of killing stonemason Robert Njoya.
High Court Judge Muga Apondi has, however, reduced the murder case to a lower charge of manslaughter and said he will deliver his [...]

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