Nairobi Governor Sonko arrested in Voi hours after DPP issues order

Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko (pictured) has been apprehended in Voi. This came hours after the DPP ordered his arrest. During a press conference in Nairobi this morning, DPP Noordin Haji announced that the governor would be questioned over the loss of Sh357 million of county funds. Haji said his office had enough evidence to charge

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Indian police kill four men suspected of gang rape, murder; draw cheers

People gather at the site where police shot dead four men suspected of raping and killing a 27-year-old veterinarian, in Chatanpally on the outskirts of Shadnagar town, Telangana, India, December 6, 2019. REUTERS/Swarat Ghosh Indian police shot dead four men on Friday who were suspected of raping and killing a 27-year-old veterinarian in the city

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Nobel body: ‘Highly problematic’ that peace winner silent

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed would have agreed to meet the Norwegian and international press.” (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man, file) The director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute has called it “highly problematic” that the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize winner won’t attend any event next week where he could be asked questions publicly, while the spokesman for

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OPEC debates deeper production cuts to push up oil price

Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman Al-Saud, Minister of Energy of Saudi Arabia, arrives for a meeting of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC at their headquarters in Vienna, Austria, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2019. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak) The countries that make up the OPEC oil-producing cartel are meeting Thursday to decide whether to cut down

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Cyprus petitions The Hague to safeguard offshore rights

Turkish drilling vessel Yavuz is pictured in the eastern Mediterranean Sea off Cyprus, August 6, 2019. REUTERS/Murad Sezer/File Photo Cyprus has petitioned the International Court of Justice at The Hague to safeguard its offshore mineral rights, its president said on Thursday, as neighbor Turkey disputes its claims. The two countries are at loggerheads over offshore

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Turkish First Lady meets MPs, Somali diaspora in London

Multiculturalism, refugee crisis, Somali’s future discussed during Emine Erdogan’s meetings Turkish First Lady Emine Erdogan met with representatives of the Global Somali Diaspora Organization and members of the U.K. parliament Wednesday following a NATO summit in London, the Turkish Presidency said in a statement. Erdogan met with members of the House of Lords, Conservative Baroness

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Kenya: Court revokes titles of grabbed public trust land

EACC headquarters in Nairobi The Ethics and Anti- Corruption Commission has won a case to recover part of a public trust land in Nakuru that was illegally sold to private individuals. The anti-graft agency successfully petitioned the Environment and Lands court to quash at least 40 titles to the land belonging to the Rift Valley

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Trump aims for role of NATO statesman but mars unity message

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, left, and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, right, welcome U.S. President Donald Trump during a NATO leaders meeting at The Grove hotel and resort in Watford, Hertfordshire, England, Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019. NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg rejected Wednesday French criticism that the military alliance is suffering from brain death, and

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Germany kicks out Russian diplomats over Berlin murder

AFP/File / Christoph Soeder/The suspect was riding a bicycle and was seen by witnesses afterwards throwing the bike and a stone-laden bag with a gun into a river Germany expelled two Russian diplomats on Wednesday after prosecutors said Moscow could be behind the killing of a former Chechen rebel commander in a Berlin park. Zelimkhan

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Division pervades NATO as the ‘brain dead’ meet the ‘delinquent’

NATO leaders and Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg pose for the family picture at the NATO leaders summit in Watford, Britain December 4, 2019. REUTERS/Yves Herman NATO leaders gathered at a golf resort near London on Wednesday for a summit acrimonious even by the standards of the Trump era, aiming to tackle sharp disagreements over spending,

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