WASHINGTON (AFP) - The White House on Monday dismissed former vice president Dick Cheney’s attacks on a probe into alleged CIA abuses of “war on terrorism” detainees and sharply questioned his foreign policy judgment.
 
“This is the same song and dance we’ve heard since literally the first day of our administration,” spokesman Robert Gibbs said after [...]

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By Joan Bryden, The Canadian Press
SUDBURY - Michael Ignatieff says the Harper government is on “life support” - and he sounds like he may be ready to pull the plug.
The Liberal leader kicked off a summer caucus retreat Monday on a hawkish note, suggesting he’s keener to force a fall election than some of his [...]

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SEOUL (AFP) - North Korea Tuesday lifted tough restrictions on cross-border traffic with South Korea, the government here said, its latest apparent goodwill gesture after months of hostility.
 
As of Tuesday the North was allowing 12 northbound crossings and 11 return trips a day, the unification ministry said, compared to just three daily crossings each way [...]

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Kenya MPs demand speedy trials
BY ANNE KIGUTA
MUKURWEINI, Kenya, - Fourteen legislators at the weekend agreed that there must be justice for the victims of post election violence regardless of whether it came from a local tribunal or the International Criminal Court (ICC).
Speaking at Gikondi Technical Training Institute in Mukurweini constituency during a fundraiser the MPs [...]

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This weekend marks the fourth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina’s devastation of the Gulf Coast. As we remember all that was lost, we must take stock of the work being done on recovery, while preparing for future disasters. And that is what I want to speak with you about today.
None of us can forget how we [...]

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By  Glen Johnson, Associated Press Writer
 
BOSTON – President Barack Obama led the nation Saturday in mourning “the greatest legislator of our time,” celebrating the indelible impact of Edward M. Kennedy as a senator for nearly a half-century and leader of America’s most famous family during tragedy and triumph.
Delivering an emotional eulogy for Kennedy that capped [...]

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KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) — August has become the deadliest month for the U.S. military in Afghanistan since the U.S. invasion after the attacks of September 11, 2001.
An American service member died in a roadside bombing in eastern Afghanistan on Friday, bringing the number of U.S. military deaths in the war-ravaged country in August to 46, [...]

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BRIBERY CLAIMS ROCKS KENGEN
By Jeff Otieno
 
Kenya Electricity Generating Company Ltd (KENGEN) has allegedly been rocked by a  massive scandal at its KIPEVU station.
 
In a terse letter dated 10th August 2009 to the Managing Director Eddy Njoroge, Witerose Security Systems Ltd Chief Executive Polycap Ocholla alleges that the station Manager Eng. Abel Rotich has been demanding [...]

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In the pictures Kisumu Town West and East MPs Olago Aluoch and Shakeel Shabbir joins  in welcoming the new plane
 
NEW AIRLINE LAUNCH.
By Angwanda Jakorando
AIRCRAFT Leasing Services has entered flight market plying double daily operations from Nairobi to Kisumu.
Speaking during the inaugural launch of its first ever flight which touched down at Kisumu Airport at 9am,the [...]

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Kenya asked to follow Israel lead
BY JUDIE KABERIA
- Israeli Ambassador Jacob Keidar on Thursday said Kenya was capable of getting out of the food and water crises in future with positive political and public will.
He said the adoption of modern irrigation technologies to grow food and restoration of the country’s water catchment areas can completely [...]

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