By The Associated Press
 
WASHINGTON - Irritated by an omnipresent fly during a TV interview at the Executive Mansion Tuesday, President Barack Obama took matters into his own hands.
Said Obama to the persistent fly: “Get out of here.”
But it didn’t.
So Obama waited for the fly to settle, put his hand up and then smacked the fly [...]

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By Randall Palmer
OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada’s Liberal Party agreed on Wednesday to back the minority Conservative government in a crucial confidence vote on Friday, averting the threat of the summer election that both parties said nobody wanted.
Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff stepped back from the brink of an election after Prime Minister Stephen Harper agreed to [...]

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BY AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE
DADAAB,  The world’s largest refugee camp is bursting at the seams, aid groups warn, asking that Kenya grant more land to host the hundreds of Somalis arriving in the UN-run Dadaab cluster every day.
Famine and unabated fighting between pro-government forces and insurgents in Somalia continues to drive large groups of displaced civilians [...]

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HIV and AIDS Campaign
Press Release
Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance coordinator Linda Hartke and other members of the Global Steering Committee of the World AIDS Campaign, met with United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday, 16 June, to highlight the importance of the 2009-2010 theme for World AIDS Day: “Universal Access and Human Rights”.
“The launch of the [...]

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A KISUMU CLERK EJECTED
By Agwanda Jakorandoh
CHAOS yesterday erupted at the Kisumu Town Hall after irate civic leaders tormed the facility and broke into the office of the town clerk Benjamin Orwa.
The angry councilors march to the town hall with over 1000 youths into were led by the deputy Mayor Pamela Omino the civic leaders forced [...]

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Relatives say Ethiopia’s regime tortured coup suspects
By Barry Malone
Gen. Asaminew Tsige is one of the 46 suspects charged by Ethiopia’s tribal junta
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - A group of men accused of plotting to topple Ethiopia’s government were tortured in prison during lengthy interrogations, relatives said on Monday.
At a pre-trial hearing in Addis Ababa, a judge [...]

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