Section: Kenya
US calls for Ukraine-Russia restraint over Crimea
Russian forces seized control of Crimea from Ukraine in March 2014/AFPWASHINGTON , United States, Aug 11 – The United States on Thursday called on Ukraine and Russia to show restraint after Moscow accused Kiev of plotting attacks in disputed Crimea, and urged a resumption of talks. Ukraine has put its forces on high alert after Russia’s FSB...
Serena Williams Out Of 2016 Olympics
World number one Serena Williams is out of the Rio de Janeiro games after she suffered shocking defeat to Ukraine’s Elina Svitolina on Tuesday during their tennis tournament. The tennis player was beaten for the first time by Svitolina who is ranked 20th in the world by the Women’s Tennis Association. According to the guardian […]...
Republican national security officials reject Trump
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump holds a purple heart medal given to him by Lt. Col. Louis Dorfman during a campaign event in Ashburn, Virginia, on August 2, 2016 © AFP/File / Molly RileyWashington, United States, Aug 9 – Fifty senior Republican national security officials have issued a stinging rejection of their party’s White...
Putin and Erdogan meet to mend ties after jet downing rift
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (R) jets into Russia on August 9, 2016, for a meeting with his counterpart Vladimir Putin © AFP/File / Eric FeferbergSaint Petersburg, Russian Federation, Aug 9 – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan jets into Russia on Tuesday for his first meeting with counterpart Vladimir Putin since the two strongmen...
Putin and Erdogan: kissed and made up?
Vladimir Putin welcomes Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the start of the G20 summit in Saint Petersburg in 2013 © AFP / ALEXANDER NEMENOVIstanbul, Turkey, Aug 8 – Sometimes even good friends can have a bad falling out. Ankara’s downing of a Russian war plane over the Syrian border last November prompted rapid retaliation from Moscow and a bitter...
Three Ukrainian soldiers killed in fresh clashes
More than 9,500 people have been killed since a Moscow-backed insurgency erupted in eastern Ukraine in April 2014 © AFP/File / Anatolii StepanovKiev, Ukraine, Aug 7 – Three Ukrainian soldiers have been killed and four others injured in fresh clashes between pro-Russian rebels and government forces in Ukraine’s war-scarred east, the military...
170,000 sign petition demanding Russia PM’s resignation
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev (pictured) was asked by a university lecturer from the impoverished Dagestan region why teachers receive only around 15,000 rubles ($230) per month, while police are significantly better paid © AFP/File / Alexander NemenovMoscow, Russian Federation, Aug 5 – More than 170,000 Russians have signed an online...
Agency raises red flag over toxic imports
Kenyans have been warned that vehicles and food items entering the country from Japan and Ukraine may have been exposed to radiation, which experts say could be behind the increased cases of cancer. A parliamentary committee heard that most of the vehicles and food items coming from the two countries, which have been hit by nuclear leaks, were...
Obama says Trump ‘unfit’ to be president
US President Barack Obama speaks about Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump during a press conference in Washington, DC on August 2, 2016 © AFP / Saul LoebWashington, United States, Aug 2 – In a blunt and virtually unprecedented presidential rebuke, Barack Obama on Tuesday described Donald Trump as “unfit” to be president and called on...
Trump’s Russia praise raises ‘security issues’: Clinton
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton speaks during a campaign rally at Fort Hayes Vocational School on July 31, 2016 in Columbus, Ohio/AFPWASHINGTON, United States, Aug 1 – Hillary Clinton on Sunday sharply criticized Donald Trump over his “absolute allegiance” to Russian policy aims, saying it raised both “national security issues”...
