By DAVID ESPO, AP Special Correspondent
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama, insistent that health care legislation will still clear Congress, urged lawmakers strongly on Friday to write stiffer cost-cutting provisions into the bills taking shape slowly in the House and Senate.
“What we want to do is force the Congress to make sure that they are acting” [...]

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By ANTHONY DEUTSCH, Associated Press Writer
JAKARTA, Indonesia – Suicide bombers posing as guests attacked American luxury hotels in Indonesia’s capital and set off a pair of blasts Friday that killed eight people and wounded more than 50, authorities said.
The bombings, which came two minutes apart, ended a four-year lull in terror attacks in the world’s [...]

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BY PRESIDENTIAL PRESS SERVICE
DAR ES SALAAM, - President Mwai Kibaki has reaffirmed Kenya’s unwavering commitment to the realisation of a fully integrated East African region based on the special relations she enjoys with the republic of Tanzania and other countries in the region.
Speaking during an official luncheon hosted by his host President Jakaya Kikwete to [...]

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KNCHR report indicts top Kenya officials
BY JUDIE KABERIA & SARAH WAMBUI
 The Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR) has published a final report which names seven Cabinet Ministers, and 10 Members of Parliament as perpetrators of the post election violence that rocked Kenya last year.
KNCHR chairperson Florence Jaoko said on Friday that the report would [...]

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