By Macon Phillips
President Obama Says GDP Numbers Show Recovery Act Working; Long-Term Investments Still Needed
WASHINGTON – In this week’s address, President Barack Obama said the newly released GDP numbers are an indication that the Recovery Act is working, but that long–term investments in innovation are needed to ensure our nation’s long-term economic growth. By training [...]

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By Allison Jones, The Canadian Press
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Canada’s role in space exploration is hard to ignore after a mission that involved two Canadian astronauts and crucial Canadian robotics, astronaut Julie Payette said after a safe return to Earth aboard space shuttle Endeavour.
Payette and six fellow astronauts glided in for a safe landing Friday [...]

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Dearest Friends and Family,
We are saddened to announce the death of Pamela Adhiambo (Nyangweso) Hope that occurred at Texas Terrace Nursing Home, St Louis Park , Minnesota , USA on 29th July, 2009, after a brief and agonizing Illness.
Pamela’s mother Judith Akoth Onyina, hails from Kabar, Kano and is the sister to the late Anthony [...]

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HOW LUO MPs FAIRED DURING PRESIDENT KIBAKI’S RECENT VISIT TO KISUMU
By Agwanda Powernan
The recent visit by President Mwai Kibaki together with Prime Minister Raila Odinga in luo Nyanza not only brought development hopes to the area citizenry but was also used by political opinion shapers within the region to gauge popularity of the respective constituencies [...]

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Where were you on August 1, 1982?
By Oduor Ong’wen
That Sunday morning, Kenyans woke to a rather unusual programme at the Voice of Kenya. The station used to open at 6 o’cloc in the morning with a winding flute tune followed by some church choir recordings then prayers by different faiths. Not that Sunday. The station [...]

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Raila explains tribunal dilemma
By Patrick Beja and Willis Oketch
Two groups have made it difficult for Parliament to pass a Bill to set up a tribunal to try suspects of post-election violence, Prime Minister Raila Odinga has said.
He cited them as people who believed their names were in the Waki envelope and want the suspects tried [...]

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BY AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE
JERUSALEM, - Pop diva Madonna recounted to Israelis the long spiritual search that led her to the Jewish mystic religion Kabbalah, in an article published on Friday by Israel’s largest newspaper.
The Material Girl, who will be in Israel in September as part of her Sticky and Sweet tour, said she had travelled [...]

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A framed photograph of the preserved head of Nana Baidoo Bonso II, an African chief who killed white intruders on his farm in 1838. Photo/FRANCIS KOKUTSE
By Francis Kokutse,
It reads  like the plot to a novel but it is true. An African Chief killed two European intruders on his land and was punished by hanging. His [...]

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