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Kenya’s top court to rule on hacking allegations, votes disparity in election dispute

Kenya’s Chief Justice Martha Koome By Reuters Kenya’s Supreme Court on Tuesday laid out eight questions it will answer when it rules on this month’s disputed presidential election result, including whether the commission’s website was hacked. Opposition leader Raila Odinga, who is seeking the presidency for the fifth time, is contesting the result of a

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18 die as Madagascar police shoot at albino kidnap protesters

Police arrive to disperse demonstrators in Antananarivo, Madagascar. Credit Photographer/AFP By AFP Eighteen people died Monday after police in Madagascar opened fire on what they called a lynch mob angered at the kidnapping of an albino child, a senior doctor told AFP. Dozens were wounded, some of them seriously. “At the moment, 18 people have

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How borrowing rules will change for new President

President-Elect William Ruto By Business Daily Africa The new President will first have to get Parliament to approve borrowing limits for the next financial year before considering the budget, in changes aimed at forcing the government to leave within its means. This is after the outgoing National Assembly amended the Standing Orders to require parliament

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Iran says Israel failed to prevent its nuclear program

By Anadolu Agency Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi said Monday the country’s nuclear program has become indigenous and arch-foe Israel has been unable to prevent its progress through sabotage, assassinations, and threats. Raisi was addressing a news conference in Tehran, attended by local and foreign media, and coinciding with the first anniversary of his government that

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Europe’s gas crisis could last several winters, Shell CEO says

Ben van Beurden, chief executive officer of Royal Dutch Shell, Photographer Reuters By Reuters Europe could face several winters of gas shortage as a result of the cuts to Russian supplies, Shell Chief Executive Ben van Beurden told a news conference in Norway on Monday. “It may well be that we will have a number

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Israeli tycoon appeals corruption conviction in Swiss court

Israeli diamond magnate Beny Steinmetz, left, with his lawyer Daniel Kinzer arrives to a courthouse in Geneva, Switzerland, Monday, Aug. 29, 2022. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP) By The Associated Press Israeli diamond magnate Beny Steinmetz returns to a Geneva courthouse on Monday to appeal his conviction on charges of corrupting foreign public officials and

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Uganda dictator’s son Muhoozi changes tune on Tigray and backs Abiy Ahmed

Lt. General Muhoozi Kainerugaba, the son of Uganda’s dictator’s Yoweri Museveni, Photographer Reuters Uganda’s Commander of Land Forces Lt-Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba was this week speaking a different language on the Ethiopian conflict, the result of a trip to Addis Ababa and an apparent lobbying by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s government, according to The East Africa

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US sails warships through Taiwan Strait in 1st since Pelosi

The guided-missile cruiser USS Chancellorsville (CG 62) transits the Philippine Sea, June 18, 2016. The U.S. Navy is sailing the USS Chancellorsville and the USS Antietam warships through the Taiwan Strait Sunday, Aug. 28, 2022, in the first such transit publicized since U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan earlier in August, at a time

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Serbia, Kosovo agree on new border policy, EU says

By Anadolu Agency Serbia and Kosovo on Saturday agreed on a new border policy under an EU-facilitated dialogue process, said the bloc’s foreign policy chief. “We have a deal. Under the EU-facilitated Dialogue, Serbia agreed to abolish entry/exit documents for Kosovo ID holders and Kosovo agreed to not introduce them for Serbian ID holders,” Josep

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US agents in Memphis seize shipped ancient Egyptian artifact

This photo provided by U.S. Customs and Border Protection shows an ancient Egyptian artifact. Federal agents in Memphis have seized the potentially 3,000-year-old ancient Egyptian artifact. ( U.S. Customs and Border Protection via AP) By The Associated Press Federal agents in Memphis have seized a potentially 3,000-year-old ancient Egyptian artifact that was shipped in from

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