Kenya Charges Top Officials With Fraud Over New $3B Railway
NAIROBI - A Kenyan court on Monday charged the heads of the agency that manages public land and of the ...
INSIGHT-'Put up and shut up': polygamy breeds poverty for Kenyan women and children
NAIROBI, Aug 15 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - It was after 21 years of marriage and six children together that Joyce's ...
Kenyan shilling little changed, activity subdued
NAIROBI, Aug 14 (Reuters) - The Kenyan shilling was little changed against the dollar on Tuesday amid subdued buying activity ...
Kenyatta's War on Corruption: Lasting Legacy or Political Theater
NAIROBI - Two top-ranking officials in Kenya were charged with corruption this week in a $3 billion Chinese-built railway project, ...
Danes to Fence German Border to Stop Boars with Swine Fever
COPENHAGEN - Denmark is to erect a 70-kilometer (43.4-mile) fence along the German border to keep out wild boars, in ...
New Amnesty International Leader's 1st Move Targets Zimbabwe
JOHANNESBURG - Amnesty International's new leader said Wednesday his first act is writing to Zimbabwe's next president about the disappearance ...
Black Americans Aren't Buying Omarosa's Turn Against Trump
WASHINGTON - For years, Omarosa Manigault Newman stood at Donald Trump's side, making her deeply unpopular with African-Americans who see ...
Malta Lets European Migrant Ship Safely Dock After 4 Days at Sea
The United Nations on Wednesday welcomed Malta's agreement to allow a European rescue ship carrying 141 migrants to dock at ...
Sierra Leone Remembers Mudslide Victims
FREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE - Sierra Leone's President Julius Maada Bio on Tuesday joined dozens of survivors of a mudslide that ...
Malta Lets European Migrant Ship Safely Dock After 4 Days at Sea
The United Nations on Wednesday welcomed Malta's agreement to allow a European rescue ship carrying 141 migrants to dock at ...
Lavish Court Spending in Poor W. Virginia Triggers Scandal
CHARLESTON, WEST VIRGINIA - A $42,000 antique desk. A $32,000 blue suede sectional sofa. A $7,500 inlaid wooden floor map ...
As Forgiveness Sweeps Ethiopia, Some Wonder About Justice
ADDIS ABABA - Ethiopia has released thousands of prisoners as a new prime minister reverses decades of security abuses. No ...
Ebola Death Toll in DRC at 41 as New Drug in Use
BENI, DRC - Forty-one people have died in the latest outbreak of Ebola in DRC, health authorities said on Tuesday, ...
As 5-Year Anniversary of Rabaa Massacre Looms, Egypt Comes Under Fire
HAVANA - As the five-year anniversary of Egypt's Rabaa massacre comes Tuesday, some human rights groups say the country has ...
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Dozens killed in second bus tragedy in three days in Ecuador
QUITO, Ecuador - In what became the second highway tragedy in less than three days in Ecuador, a bus rammed ...
Roadside bomb targets Saudi-backed local Yemeni governor
ADEN, Yemen - A targeting roadside bomb exploded in Yemen's southern city of Aden, targeting the convoy of a local ...
Iran unveils next-generation short-range ballistic missile
TEHRAN, Iran - Amid rising tensions with the U.S., after the country’s President Donald Trump withdrew from the Iran nuclear ...
Patients, staff flee Spanish hospital after it catches fire
MADRID, Spain - A hospital in the Canary Islands was set ablaze by a patient’s relative on Monday night, which ...
Hundreds injured after platform at Spanish festival collapse
MADRID, Spain - A city in northwestern Spain, which had been hosting a popular annual seaside music festival, witnessed tragedy ...
Largest earthquake ever rocks Alaska’s North Slope
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The National Tsunami Warning Center in Palmer said that Alaska’s North Slope experienced the largest ever earthquake ...
Hyatt Regency New Orleans
Expectations were high for this top of the line Hyatt product in "The Big Easy". The taxi rolled up to the rear of the ...