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Business Chirchir halts hiring of Kengen MD
The source, who cannot be named due to the sensitivity of the matter, and who is privy to the boardroom wars, says Chirchir has suspended the recruitment to prevent any scenario where Njoroge will sit in the interview panel and influence the appointment of his ...
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Business North Rift counties pledge to team up to grow wealth
counties would, for instance, explore setting up an abattoir in Eldoret Town that will process beef products from the region for local and export ...
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Business Governors shock as new team suspends public land deals
National Land Commission has issued a directive suspending all occupation, transfer, allocation or conversion of public land. "It has come to the commission's attention that some offices, officers and authorities are disposing of public land without either informing or consulting us," said Dr Mohammed Swazuri, the chairman of the commission. "No public officer has the ...
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Serbia Defeats Hungary in Finals of World League Water Polo
CHELYABINSK, Russia, June 17. FOR the seventh time, Serbia won the World League Super Final and a check for $100,000. The team, which twice won as Serbia-Montenegro, defeated Hungary in the final match for the honor. Montenegro--the other half of the former joint country--defeated the American squad for third place. Below are results of the quarterfinal, semifinal and final rounds of action ...
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G8 Promises to Boost Global Economic Recovery
Belfast, Jun 18 (Prensa Latina) The leaders of the seven most industrialized countries and Russia promised today to boost recovery of the world''s economy and employment, as well as to make greater efforts to fight tax evasion. That promise was included in joint statement in the closing day of a Summit of the Group of Eight (G8) in a luxury hotel in Lough Erne, in the British province ...
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Video G8 shows Northern Ireland is open for business
David Cameron said you ';couldn’t put a value'; on the free advertising for Northern Ireland as a result of the G8 summit. The Prime Minister said his fellow G8 leaders had been impressed and added that he hoped it would help people realise how "magnificent" Northern Ireland is.Mr Cameron used the summit's closing press conference to say he hoped the G8 had shown ...
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Secretary Kerry Briefs Senate Intel Members on Syria Plans Cost Still Unknown
Secretary of State John Kerry went into a closed briefing with Senate Intelligence Committee members Tuesday afternoon to discuss the Obama administration's plans to provide small arms to Syrian rebels. Senators ...
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Investment Banks Moving To Neutral On Mining Stocks
The negative tides for mining stocks appear to shifting towards the positive, at least for a few investment banks, as JP Morgan Cazenove and Citigroup have changed their views from bearish to ...
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The FIFA World Cup A model for sustainability
As the world's biggest single sporting event, the FIFA World Cup(TM) has a wide-reaching responsibility that extends far beyond the tournament itself. It is for that reason ...
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The Microsoft breakup that never happened
Computerworld - Thomas P. Jackson, the former federal judge who in 2000 ruled that Microsoft should be split into two companies as punishment for monopolistic business practices, died Saturday at his Maryland home. He was 76. Jackson's demand that Microsoft divide was overturned by a federal appeals court in 2001, in part because the panel believed public comments Jackson made during and ...
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Would you pay $50 for World War Z
(But first, a brief digression: Last night, I attended a screaming, er, screening of ';Monsters University.'; It was, as you might imagine for a Pixar movie, packed with kids, and the kiddie radio station sponsoring the screening had some, um, entertaining ideas. ';At the count of three, we’re going to SCREAM AT THE TOP OF OUR LUNGS!'; an excitable host told the kids, ...
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Defiant Edward Snowden promises further intel leaks
WASHINGTON--Rogue U.S. intelligence tech Edward Snowden issued a defiant rebuke to his critics in Washington on Monday and warned more leaks were on the way, declaring: "Truth is coming and it cannot be ...
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The world has seen the new Northern Ireland says David Cameron at the end of a successful G8
An online article ('Protestant-Catholic gap narrows as census results revealed', posted December 11, 2012) reported on the publication of data from the 2011 Census by the Northern Ireland Statistics Agency and stated that the percentage of Protestants and Catholics in the Northern Ireland population stood at 48% and 45% ...
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Jordan advance to World Cup play-offs after beating Oman 1-0
Ahmad Hayel Ibrahim scored the winning goal with a superb diving header into the bottom corner (57).Jordan will face Uzbekistan in the fifth-place home-and-away play-off on 6 and 10 September.Jordan or Uzbekistan will then play the fifth-placed side in South America in an intercontinental home-and-away play-off on 15 and 19 ...
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Baby formula industry to consolidate
sse s will be axed, in what experts are calling a major consolidation of the industry. The government has been trying to revive the industry since the 2008 melamine scandal, but consumer confidence is still lacking. The move is part of a campaign to scrutinize dairy businesses in the next three months to improve the quality of milk powder products and boost confidence in the industry, the ...
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Power Rundown Harder To Do Business In USA
Discussing whether it's harder to do business in the U.S. than anywhere else, and if Bernanke has "run his course," with Niall Ferguson, Harvard economist, and author of "The Great ...
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G8 summit David Cameron hails landmark deal to rewrite global rules to stamp out tax evasion
David Cameron has hailed a landmark deal to rewrite global rules to stamp out tax evasion and stop companies shifting profits between countries to limit their tax ...
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Brazil kicks off World Cup excess draws hundreds of thousands to street protests
When the Fifa president Sepp Blatter announced in 2007 that next year's World Cup would be staged in Brazil, he predicted it would have "a big social and cultural impact". It has, but not in the way he expected. Instead of uniting Brazil in celebration, football's biggest prize, which is returning after 54 years to the country that has won it more times than any other, is ...
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Syria crisis World leaders appeal to allies of Bashar al-Assad to force the Syrian President to surrender power
World leaders appealed to allies of Bashar al-Assad to force the Syrian President to surrender power at the close of their two-day summit in Northern ...
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Gallery Varsity Acres students use exceptional images to share how they see the world
Students from Varsity Acres school took part in a photographic art project entitled "How I See the World" creating thousands of beautiful photographs including portraits, and still life ...
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In Paris Boeing unveils the 787-10 Dreamliner
(Credit: Boeing) Boeing today announced the 787-10 Dreamliner, the third (and longest) plane in the often-troubled 787 family, and an aircraft that the aviation giant said will be the most fuel-efficient in the industry. The unveiling was timed to the Paris Air Show, which is being held this week in Le Bourget, France. That show is the aviation industry's biggest event of the year, ...
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Police get real-world training
MUNCIE, Ind. (AP) - Members of the Muncie Police Department are getting some high-tech firearms training without leaving City Hall. A crew from Indiana Simulator Systems visited the department last week to give officers a chance to test their responses without risk of ...
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How the IRS keeps the $4.3 trillion nonprofit world secret
(Photo by Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg) You’ve heard about the the Internal Revenue Service’s habit of targeting conservative 501(c)(4) applicants for close scrutiny. You’ve also by now heard the criticisms that the IRS ...
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World Cup Success a Lift for Troubled Egypt
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The Strange World of Dolphin-Assisted Therapy
A dolphin (Reuters).Dolphins are fascinating. Intelligent and interested in humans, the cetaceans have been part of the entertainment business since long before Sea World. In a strange twist, though, captive dolphins are now being pressed into service as psychological healers through a practice known as "dolphin-assisted therapy." In an essay published today at Aeon, neuroscientist ...
Middle East Focus
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Israel and Palestine as one country?
Peace in the Middle East, it’s as illusive now as it was ten years ago and ten years before that. For many commentators, peace in the Middle East has become a myth, something local and international governments strive for or claim to support without any real hope of realization of the goal. With the current impasse between Israel and the Palestinian Authority ongoing, an old theme is being kicked around again, that of a single state that incorporates Israel and Palestine.
A single state solution is an idea that grew up in the 1920s and then died with the Six-Day War when divisions between the newly-founded Israeli state and the rest of the region were too entrenched for the idea to retain any traction. The political landscape after the war and even today is what many Jewish groups feared when Jewish Zionists were calling for a return to the biblical homeland to develop a Jewish state. Read more
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