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  • South Sudans President Says Never to ICC

    JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN South Sudan President Salva Kiir said Thursday that he would "never acceptrdquo; the International Criminal Court. He spoke during a visit from new Kenyan president and ICC indictee Uhuru Kenyatta, who pledged the creation of roads, rail and pipelines to deepen economic ties between Kenya and the new nation. It was Uhuru Kenyatta's first visit to South Sudan since ...

  • Cheruiyot to miss World championships for pregnancy

    Kenya's Vivian Cheruiyot will not be able to defend her 5,000 metres and 10,000 metres titles at this year's Moscow World championships as she is expecting her first child. The runner said in a statement Wednesday that she felt it was "the right time to start a family" at the age of 29, reports Xinhua. Cheruiyot plans to return for the 2014 season and compete in the 2015 World championships in ...

  • Kenya makes new plea to UN Council over ICC charges

    Kenya made a new plea to the UN Security Council on Thursday to "terminate" International Criminal Court charges against President Uhuru Kenyatta and other leaders over political unrest in 2008. But western nations on the 15-member council told Kenyan diplomats at a private meeting that Kenyatta, Deputy President William Ruto and one of their followers must face the court, diplomats ...

  • Kenyan Cooperation with ICC Questioned

    An April 2011 Combination picture shows Kenya's Uhuru Kenyatta, who was finance minister, and William Ruto, former Higher Education Minister at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The ...

  • WTO to East Africa Improve Your Infrastructure

    NAIROBI -- World Trade Organization (WTO) Director-General Pascal Lamy said East African governments must improve roads, ports and trade procedures if the region is to meet its full economic potential. He said specifically that border administration must be improved and there has to be cross-border recognition of technical standards. The call of the WTO chief comes as trade partners across ...

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Melancholia

Melancholia

Lars von Triers Melancholia is being praised by many as a genuine late-season masterwork, but it strikes me as little more than an overlong, self-indulgent mishmash of gorgeous imagery and nihilistic overload. Von Trier has forged the majority of his career wallowing in darkness a ... ...

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  • Kenya Relief as surgeons re-attach mans severed private organ

    Surgeons at the hospital have successfully reattached his partially severed organ. However, experts at the hospital Thursday indicated it is not possible to determine if the victim will regain full sexual function of his ...

  • Kenya Mother claims nurse watched her newborn die

    The couple had prepared to welcome their newborn baby and when Ann went to labour on January 17, this year, they knew that the moment they had prepared for had ...

  • Kenya Police arrest former councillor for piracy

    • Secondary school set books analysed, recorded and saved in DVDs which were later sold to bookshops • Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education 2012 marking schemes for different subjects • Heavy duty printers, DVD burners which Gitimu told the police officers were used in the production of the copies of DVDs at night • Others were theatre books and anthology of poems for ...

  • Kenya Weather pushes inflation food prices down

    inflation eased significantly from 14 per cent in 2011 to 9.4 per cent in 2012 with the country's reliance on rain-fed agriculture paying out. The drop ...

  • Kenya Report shows jobs in formal sector declined

    jobs in the 2008/2009 financial year, a period following the post-election violence. This year, the firms that employed the highest number of people were in ICT, education, health and building and construction sectors. A vibrant property market stimulated by a reduction in the cost of borrowing lifted the building and construction sector to a growth of 4.8 per cent in 2012 compared to a growth ...

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