Section: Capital News (Kenya)
Trump vows ‘America first’ foreign policy
Republican White House frontrunner Donald Trump/AFPWASHINGTON, Apr 28 – Republican White House frontrunner Donald Trump promised a top-to-bottom overhaul of US foreign policy Wednesday to put “America first” and make its allies pay up. In a major foreign policy speech short on specifics that left Washington experts scratching their heads, Trump...
Thirty years on, Ukraine remembers Chernobyl catastrophe
Candles set in the shape of a radiation hazard symbol are seen on a square next to the monument to Chernobyl victims in Slavutych on the 30th anniversary of the nuclear power plant disaster which has killed thousands and permanently poisoned swathes of eastern Europe – AFP/GettyCHERNOBYL, Ukraine, Apr 26 – Ukrainians held candlelit vigils Tuesday...
Obama to stress partnership with Europe in Germany speech
US President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel attend the Hanover Industry Fair,April 24, 2016/AFPHANOVER, GERMANY, Apr 23 – Barack Obama will set out his vision of relations with Europe with a speech in the northern German city of Hanover on Monday, trying to frame a relationship that has been less than easy throughout his...
US Air Force plane intercepted by Russian jet in ‘unsafe’ manner: Pentagon
A Russian Sukhoi Su-24 attack aircraft makes a very-low altitude pass by the USS Donald Cook operating in the Baltic Sea/AFPWASHINGTON, United States, Apr 17 – A US Air Force reconnaissance plane was intercepted by a Russian SU-27 jet in an “unsafe and unprofessional” manner while in international airspace over the Baltic Sea, the Pentagon said....
Rich nations probe Panama Papers tax revelations
Police stand guard outside the Mossack Fonseca law firm offices in Panama City during a raid on April 12, 2016/AFPPARIS, France, Apr 13 – Tax authorities from the world’s richest nations on Wednesday probed a mass of murky offshore dealings revealed in the huge Panama Papers data leak, just hours after police raided the law firm at the...
G7 Hiroshima Declaration calls for ‘world without nuclear weapons’
G7 foreign ministers lay wreaths in front of the Cenotaph for 1945 atomic bombing victims in the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima on April 11, 2016© Foreign Ministry of Japan/AFPHIROSHIMA, Japan, Apr 11 – US Secretary of State John Kerry and G7 foreign ministers on Monday called for a “world without nuclear weapons”, citing North Korea’s...
Japan’s Abe hosts Mugabe as Tokyo, Beijing vie for Africa influence
Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe shakes hands with Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the start of their talks at the latter’s official residence in Tokyo/AFPTOKYO, Japan, Mar 29 – Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Monday welcomed Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe the 92-year-old former guerrilla fighter who is widely...
ICC evaluating its work over the past 12 years
Silvia Fernandez de Gurmendi acknowledged questions raised about the court’s efficiency in its core mandate of delivering justice transparently and timely/CFMCAPE TOWN, South Africa, Mar 23 – International Criminal Court (ICC) President Judge Silvia Fernandez de Gurmendi has announced elaborate strategies that she intends to spearhead...
Trump outlines isolationist policy and advisor team
Trump, who is closing in on the Republican presidential nomination, had been under pressure to name a foreign policy team, amid reports that mainstream experts are loath to endorse him/FILEWASHINGTON, United States, Mar 22 – White House hopeful Donald Trump outlined Monday a starkly isolationist stance and a advisory team drawn from the energy...
Denmark tops global ‘happy’ index, Burundi at bottom
Denmark lost to Switzerland in the 2015 version of the World Happiness Report but was named the happiest country once again in this year’s report/AFPNEW YORK, United States, Mar 17 – Denmark, closely followed by Switzerland, is again the happiest country in the world while crisis-torn Syria and Burundi are the most miserable, according to a...
