Africa: WHO’s new boss is just the right medicine
NEWS ANALYSIS The battle to get there was bruising but the end result was decisive: with 133 votes, compared with
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Kenya: Infighting, tension at Electorate Commission raise questions on election plans
The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission is locked in intense infighting 71 days to the General Election with the suspension
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Homeland Security Extends Protections For Thousands Of Haitians In U.S.
Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly has extended for six months a program that has allowed tens of thousands of Haitians
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Displaced Congolese find unlikely refuge in Angola
Thousands of refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo are fleeing across the border to Angola – even though Angola
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Explosion, Panic and Death at Ariana Grande Concert in England
MANCHESTER, England — An explosion that may have been a suicide bombing killed at least 19 people on Monday night
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Alone on the Open Road: Truckers Feel Like ‘Throwaway People’
EFFINGHAM, Ill. — The vast Petro truck stop here is a neon-lit, blacktop oasis at the crossroads of America. It
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F.B.I. Director James Comey Is Fired by Trump
WASHINGTON — President Trump on Tuesday fired the director of the F.B.I., James B. Comey, abruptly terminating the law enforcement
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Ex-hedge fund manager founds school in Somaliland
In 2008, a man named Jonathan Starr was 32 years old and running a hedge fund in Boston. He was
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Hassan, the mysterious Somali trader who funded Mau Mau fighters
In the famous 1946 picture of Jomo Kenyatta with top officials of Kenya African Union (KAU), there was an unidentified
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