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  • Kenya Suspected terrorist killed in Nairobi

    Nairobi when they tried to arrest him in his house on Saturday night. He resisted and started to throw grenades at officers injuring the six officers who have been admitted in hospital in a stable condition. The bodies were moved to the mortuary. The suspect has been linked to arrested Elgiva Oliacha Bwire who was behind terror attacks in the city in 2011. More to ...

  • World Iran hangs two found guilty of spying

    Iran occasionally says it has dismantled Western spying networks in the country and announces arrests of individuals on espionage charges. Tehran ...

  • Kenyan Runners Dominate KL Towerthon Challenge

    KUALA LUMPUR, May 19 (Bernama) - Kenyan runners dominated KL Tower Sunrise Towerthon Challenge 2013 by sweeping the men's and women's open categories here today. They finished 1-2-3 in the men's category when Collins Kipkorir Kimosop won in 13:5s followed by Wambui Paul Kimani (13:37) and Enock Kipchirchir (13:38). In the women's category, Susan Jemutai Kosgei won ...

  • JSC Wants Judge in Pattni Case Probed

    Nairobi - The Judicial Service Commission (JSC) has petitioned President Uhuru Kenyatta to form a tribunal to probe the conduct of Justice Joseph Mutava. The decision comes after a committee constituted by the JSC in December 2012 failed to clear him in three out of the 11 complaints filed by LSK and other individual litigants The complaints received between March 2012 - March 2013 leveled ...

  • Kenya Woman kills husband in domestic row

    Kisii County on Saturday evening as news of the bizarre incident where the woman killed her husband of 15 years using a new panga spread.? The slain, a medical engineer at the referral hospital identified as Stanley Kipsang lay lifeless at bedsitter in the facility?s staff quarters as members of the public jostled to have a glimpse of what had happened.? Shocked neighbours told The Standard and ...

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The Beales of Grey Gardens [DVD]

The Beales of Grey Gardens [DVD]

When the Direct Cinema pioneers Albert and David Maysles took their 16mm cameras into the decaying East Hampton mansion known as Grey Gardens to document the wonderfully strange lives of 79-year-old Edith Bouvier Beale and her 56-year-old daughter Little Edie Beale ... ...

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  • Kenya Govt Wants the Amisom Troops in Somalia Expanded

    Deputy President William Ruto said the instability in Somalia is piling pressure on Kenya's security situation. According to Kenya's Standard newspaper, he spoke when he met Congo Brazzaville President Denis Sassou Nguesso and his Gabon counterpart Ali Bongo separately in their respective countries. The leaders talked about the need to expand the African Union forces in Mogadishu to ...

  • East Africa Eastern Africa Standby Force to Have Operational Capacity By 2015

    Military experts attending the ongoing field training exercise of 10 Eastern Africa armies held here in the eastern Ugandan district of Jinja have said the Eastern African Standby Force (EASF) would be ready for operation by 2015. The EASF is one of the five regional multi-dimensional components of the African Standby Force consisting of the military, police and civilian elements. The EASF was ...

  • Sports Weepy Beckham leaves Paris

    At 38, the oldest outfield player in Ligue 1, Beckham set up Blaise Matuidi for PSG's second goal with a corner kick and treated the crowd to a display of his passing ...

  • Kenya Civil society opposes restrictions on funding

    A new report by the Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and association says arguments put forward by the States to restrict foreign funding do not meet the threshold for restricting activism in the interest of national security or public safety. The report released this week and authored by ...

  • Kenya Is Balalas Cabinet post a blessing or a poisoned lace

    Najib Balala takes his place as Mining Secretary in the Jubilee Cabinet analysts in Coast are divided over whether the plum job will end or spur his political influence in the ...

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