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WASHINGTON (CNN) — President Obama announced Monday his choice for surgeon general — Dr. Regina Benjamin, a 52-year-old family practice doctor who has spent most of her career tending to the needs of poor patients in a Gulf Coast clinic in Alabama.
“When people couldn’t pay, she didn’t charge them,” Obama said. [...]

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PENSACOLA, Florida (CNN) — Police believe six to eight people were involved in the shooting deaths of a Gulf Coast couple known for adopting special-needs children, authorities said Monday.
Those include three people already in custody for the deaths Thursday of Byrd and Melanie Billings.
The crime was “a very well-planned and methodical operation,” said Escambia County, [...]

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THE CANADIAN PRESS
OTTAWA – Queen Elizabeth has appointed Jean Chrétien to the exclusive Order of Merit.
The honour is restricted to 24 living members and few foreigners. It puts Chrétien’s name alongside such esteemed figures as Albert Schweitzer, Mother Teresa and Nelson Mandela.
Chrétien said he was surprised, honoured and grateful.
“What can I say?” he told The [...]

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By Jack Kim
SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has life-threatening pancreatic cancer, South Korean broadcaster YTN said on Monday, citing information gathered from Chinese and South Korean intelligence sources.
The report fueled speculation about Kim’s health while raising questions about the future of Asia’s only communist dynasty and who will make decisions about its [...]

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Three UPDF soldiers killed in Somalia
By Vision reporter
and agencies
A mortar shell killed three Ugandan soldiers of the African Union peacekeeping force on Saturday and injured another, according to the UPDF.
“A mortar shell landed at the Presidential Palace in Mogadishu, killing three of our soldiers,” army spokesman Maj. Felix Kulayigye told The New Vision yesterday.
“Another one [...]

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More praise Annan as Ruto calls for end to Hague talk
By Standard Team
Agriculture Minister William Ruto has called for an end to debate on the prosecution of suspects linked to post-election violence.
Mr Ruto said former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan settled the matter by handing the ‘secret’ envelope to the International Criminal Court.
Speaking at Cheptais in [...]

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Arm security guards to fight criminals 
BY JOSEPH KAMOTHO
Behind elaborately grilled windows, doors and gates reside the Kenyan population in perpetual fear of regular attacks sometimes in broad daylight. Ironically, even worship centres are not safe havens any more. No soul is spared these senseless attacks, robberies, raids, abductions, car jacking and burglaries.
Within a matter of [...]

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Outgoing Nyando County Council Chairman Samuel Onyango Ong’ou retained his Chairmanship  unopossed in an election which was conducted at Nyando County Council Hall.
The Council Clerk Silas Kipruto swears in Auditing Committee boss Eunice Alando while Chairman Samuel Ongo’u and his Vice Chairman Charles Seko watches
By Angwanda Jakorando

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