BY Michael Saul
DAILY NEWS POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT
President Obama, in a rousing address to the NAACP Thursday night, paid tribute to the civil rights pioneers who made his historic presidency possible and declared the legacy of discrimination “must not stand.”
“Because ordinary people made the civil rights movement their own, I made a trip to Springfield [Ill.] a [...]

continue reading.....

OTTAWA (Reuters) – The Conservatives have moved into a small lead in public opinion, a poll released on Thursday showed, as the Liberals mull whether to try to bring down the minority government this autumn.
But the Ekos poll showed the lead to be within its margin of error, with neither major party able to break [...]

continue reading.....

by Samer al-Atrush
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AFP) – Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Thursday that peace talks with Pakistan would remain on hold until Islamabad took action against the perpetrators of the Mumbai attacks last year.
“A composite dialogue cannot begin unless and until the terrorist attacks that shook Mumbai are accounted for and the perpetrators [...]

continue reading.....

BY ANTHONY KAGIRI
The contents of the Waki envelope will remain confidential even after they have been perused by the International Criminal Court prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo, who says the primary role of probing last year’s post-election violence rests with Kenyan authorities.
Mr Ocampo who received two reports from Attorney General Amos Wako on the operationalisation of [...]

continue reading.....

LUO ODM MP GIVEN MARCHING OPRDERS.
By Agwanda Powerman,
 
A luo ODM MP has been ordered to quit a premise owned by  Kisumu Tycoon of Indian where he has been operating entertaining business situated at United Mall along Kisumu-Kakamega road on the outskirts of Kisumu town.
 
 Our investigations found that the said MP who has a senior position [...]

continue reading.....

BY BENSON AMOLLO
Could it be that Kenyans owe the police much more than what they are taxed to keep the force? Or rather, have sections of the population been pushed too hard that security is no longer a concern? Or put carelessly, do we really need a police force?
Whereas the above questions and many more [...]

continue reading.....

BY SARAH WAMBUI
Thirty eight Somali Members of Parliament who have fled to Kenya have appealed to the international community to move fast and support efforts towards the restoration of order in the war torn country.
The MPs told journalists in Nairobi on Wednesday that the international community should urgently provide financial and political support to the [...]

continue reading.....