WASHINGTON (AFP) - President Barack Obama will directly raise human rights with Chinese President Hu Jintao next week, after being criticized for not meeting Tibet’s spiritual leader Dalai Lama before visiting Beijing.
 
Obama, who leaves the United States for his debut Asian tour as president on Thursday, will talk about religious freedom, the plight of Tibet, [...]

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By Jeremy Pelofsky and Adam Entous
 
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. intelligence agencies learned an Army psychiatrist contacted an Islamist sympathetic to al Qaeda and relayed that information to federal authorities before the man allegedly went on a shooting spree that killed 13 people in Texas last week, U.S. sources said on Monday.
The sources said the spy [...]

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Provided by: The Canadian Press
Written by: Pat Hewitt, THE CANADIAN PRESS
TORONTO - A Brampton, Ont., man is questioning why the nurse who gave his young daughter and almost a dozen other children double the recommended dose of the H1N1 flu vaccine is still giving out the swine flu shot.
It’s just the latest problem to surface [...]

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Kenya Prime Minister Raila Odinga answers questions during an interview in Nairobi.
By Emeka-Mayaka Gekara, Citizen Correspondent, Nairobi
Prime Minister Raila Odinga on Saturday declared he would surrender to the International Criminal Court (ICC) if prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo builds a strong case linking him to the post-election violence. “I will not wait to be arrested. I [...]

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President Kibaki (right) and Prime minister Raila Odinga. The two Grand Coalition partners will fly the entire Cabinet for a three-day ‘bonding’ mission in Mombasa.
Cabinet secret retreat
By Martin Mutua
President Kibaki and Prime minister Raila Odinga will fly all Cabinet members and Assistant ministers for a three-day ‘bonding’ mission in Mombasa.
The retreat significantly comes before the [...]

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