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News highlights Health Ministry accepts Governors’ plan to include all 47 counties in Universal Health Care piloting programme Kenya’s Ministry of Health has accepted a request by the Council of Governors (CoG) to include all the 47 counties in the Universal Health Care (UHC) piloting programme. Afya House has however selected a set...
WATCH Train Collides With Minibus in Russia’s Crimea: Five Killed, Four Injured
“A road accident occurred near the town of Armiansk at a railway crossing. A shuttle bus collided with a shuttle train. Five people were killed and four suffered injuries in the accident,” Olga Kondrashova said. READ MORE: Truck Collides With Bridge in Slo-Mo Earlier in the day, a source in the regional emergency services told Sputnik about the...
Five killed after minibus collides with train in Crimea
Five people died and a further three were injured after a minibus collided with a train at a rail crossing near the Crimean town of Armyansk, the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations (EMERCOM) has said. …read more Source:...
Saakashvili to teach in the Netherlands after getting kicked out of Ukraine
Former Georgian president and the governor of Odessa, Mikhail Saakashvili has found a job as a lecturer in the Netherlands, but vowed to resume his political career. In a written statement, Saakashvili…Click To Continue …read more Source: Daily...
Egyptian gets on his bike for World Cup road trip
Nufal plans to get there via Jordan, Bulgaria, Romania, Moldova and Ukraine. …read more Source: The Jerusalem...
Politics: Paul Manafort moves to suppress potentially explosive evidence against him in the Russia investigation
Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort's motion is unlikely to succeed, but experts said it may be worth a shot, given what's at stake. Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort filed a motion Friday to suppress key evidence the special counsel Robert Mueller obtained against him last May. Manafort’s lawyers argue that...
International schools Arabic debating contest kicks off
The 4th International Schools Arabic Debating Championship kicked off yesterday at Qatar National Convention Centre (QNCC). Organised by the QatarDebate Centre, the championship is being held under the patronage of HE Sheikha Hind bint Hamad al-Thani, Vice-Chairperson and CEO of Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development...
Ukrainian Parl’t Speaker Claims Nord Stream-2 Pipeline Poses ‘Military Threat’
“The launch of the Nord Stream 2 project may imply direct military threats that might provoke a new full-scale offensive of Russian troops on Ukraine,” Ukrainian Parliament Speaker Andriy Parubiy was quoted as saying by the Unian information agency. Parybiy explained that, in his opinion, Russia desired to use “energy blackmail” to directly...
United States Slams Sanctions Against Putin Over Spy Row
US President Donald Trump hosts a working lunch with the Baltic heads of state in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, DC. Photo Credit: Olivier Douliery / AFP The United States struck President Vladimir Putin’s inner circle Friday, imposing sanctions on seven of Russia’s most influential oligarchs and stoking a...
US slaps sanctions on Putin’s oligarch allies
The United States struck at the heart of President Vladimir Putin’s inner circle yesterday, imposing sanctions on seven of Russia’s most influential oligarchs and stoking a diplomatic crisis that some have dubbed a new Cold War. Those hit include metals magnate Oleg Deripaska, described as operating for the Russian government, as well...
