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  • Kenya Vocal leaders on MPs salary debate join PSC

    NAIROBI, KENYA: Members of parliament who have been vocal in articulating the controversial salary perks of MPs have been appointed as members of the ...

  • World Ban Ki-moon uneasy over North Korea missile launch

    North Korea 's launch of short-range missiles, urging Pyonyang to refrain from further launches and return to stalled nuclear talks with world ...

  • Kenya police kill terror couple

    Augustine Nthumbi, the officer in charge of the Githurai Kimbo area on the city's outskirts, said investigators raided the flat where the couple were staying following a tip-off and ordered them out of their house.Nthumbi said the couple refused to surrender, threw grenades and used their eight-month-old baby as a human shield. Nthumbi said two grenades were recovered from the house.Police ...

  • Kenya Police officer shot dead in Wajir

    Wajir , Kenya : A senior administration police officer was on Saturday evening shot dead by unknown assailants in wajir town in yet another incident of insecurity in Northeastern ...

  • Kenya Kenya requires sh 1 billion to upgrade slums

    According to Ms Pauline Mbote, the deputy director of the slum upgrading programme at the ministry of housing, the money would be used to upgrade the planning, infrastructure and social amenities in all the slum areas around the country. Mbote, who was speaking at a consultation forum on slum upgrading at ...

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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 Feeding project hands lifeline to Nakuru pupils

    Feed A Smile ,' an initiative of a group of musicians based in Scotland, Germany and the US. Live and Learn Kenya implements the project at a center in Shabab estate ...

  • Politics MPs salaries will be based on previous rates says Muturi

    The MPs have been embroiled in a tussle with the Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC) over a move to have their pay reduced from Sh851,000 to Sh532, 500. In an exclusive interview with The Standard on Sunday, Muturi said ...

  • 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 ...

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