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KENYA’S parliament has been recalled for an emergency session tomorrow to debate ending membership of the International Criminal Court (ICC).
Mandela still in critical condition — Zuma
JOHANNESBURG — South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma said yesterday that he was pleased Nelson Mandela had gone home from a hospital, saying it indicated the progress that the anti-apartheid leader…
Britain left in the cold
BRITAIN has been left out in the cold as the United States plots more extensive action in Syria to crush Assad’s military and topple him. UK military chiefs are being…
S Sudan urges Sudan to accept AU proposal
KHARTOUM —South Sudanese President Salva Kiir Mayardit yesterday urged Sudan to accept a proposal by the African Union mediation on conducting a referendum in the disputed oil-rich area of Abyei,…
Israel, US conduct joint missile test
JERUSALEM — Israel and the US conducted a joint missile test over the Mediterranean yesterday, an apparent display of military prowess as the Obama administration seeks congressional support for strikes…
6 000 people flee Syria daily
GENEVA — More than 2 million refugees have now fled Syria’s civil war in human suffering unparalleled in recent history, the United Nations said yesterday.
Give us room to serve Kenyans: Uhuru
NAIROBI — President Uhuru Kenyatta has told former Prime Minister Raila Odinga to join him in solving the land problem in the country or shut up.
Cosatu taken to court over Vavi
THE Congress of South Africa Trade Unions (Cosatu) has been served with legal papers challenging the suspension of its general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi, Numsa’s Irvin Jim said.
Rocket attack kills 15 militants in Sinai: Egyptian state TV
FIFTEEN militants were killed in the Sinai Peninsula by rocket fire, Egyptian state TV reported yesterday, after witnesses said army helicopters had attacked militant strongholds in the area.
Sri Lanka faces terror threat
COLOMBO — Sri Lanka risks a “re-emergence of terrorism” as Tamil Tiger rebels and their sympathisers living abroad revive a campaign for a separate state, the country’s top defence official…