By MARK S. SMITH, Associated Press Writer
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia – From the moment Barack Obama stepped off Air Force One, his first visit to Saudi Arabia as president was filled with, well, pomp and pageantry fit for a king.
His host was, after all, the monarch who presides over the oil-rich nation.
King Abdullah staged an elaborate [...]

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By NESTOR IKEDA, Associated Press Writer
SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras – The Organization of American States on Wednesday lifted a decades-old ban on Cuba’s participation in the group and cleared the way for the island’s return despite initial U.S. objections.
The vote by acclamation to revoke a 1962 measure suspending Cuba from the hemispheric group toppled an [...]

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By Jon Herskovitz
SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea plans to put on trial on Thursday two U.S. journalists it says illegally entered its country with “hostile intent” in a controversial case that comes as Pyongyang faces international anger for last week’s nuclear test.
Experts said a guilty verdict is certain and that the two, captured on North [...]

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Museveni must go, says Kanyeihamba
Emmanuel Gyezaho
Kampala
President Museveni, in power since 1986, is way past his sell-by date and shouldn’t stand at the next election if Uganda’s political stability is to be guaranteed, a Supreme Court judge and former political ally has said.
In the final part of an interview with Daily Monitor, Justice George Wilson Kanyeihamba, [...]

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ODM, PNU lock horns in Geneva
By David Ohito and Beauttah Omanga
The spat between Coalition partners ODM and PNU over the UN Special Rapporteur Philip Alston’s findings on extra-judicial killings threatened to degenerate into international embarrassment after the rivals took contradictory positions before a crucial meeting.
The two groups were last night locked in a meeting to [...]

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ECONOMIC CRISIS: Kikwete to announce stimulus for economy
 
By Costantine Sebastian
President Jakaya Kikwete is set to announce a bail out package worth billions of shillings to rescue local companies that have been hit hard by the global economic crisis.
The Government’s stimulus package, which awaits cabinet approval on Thursday, could be unveiled by Saturday, Finance and Economic [...]

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Kyazze quizzed over sodomy allegations
 
PASTOR Michael Kyazze of the Omega Healing Centre in Kampala was yesterday interrogated over sodomy allegations against Pastor Robert Kayanja, report Herbert Ssempogo and Umaru Kashaka.
Kyazze arrived at the Kampala Central Police Station before 10:00am where journalists, who awaited his arrival, mobbed him.
“I was summoned to give my statement. I am [...]

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