By Katharine Houreld. NAIROBI (Reuters) – Veteran opposition leader Raila Odinga led Kenya’s presidential race, official election results showed on Saturday, pushing Deputy PresidentWilliam Ruto into second place ...East Africa’s wealthiest nation and most vibrant democracy held presidential, parliamentary and local elections on Tuesday ... Advertisement.
Consequences...Russian PresidentVladimir Putin takes part in a ceremony to launch a new large-scale production facility at the plant of Bratskchemsyntez drugmaker owned by Pharmasyntez Group, via a video link at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow, RussiaNovember 26, 2020 (credit. SPUTNIK/ALEKSEY NIKOLSKYI/KREMLIN VIAREUTERS) ... .
Taliban fighters beat female protesters and fired into the air on Saturday to dispersed a rare rally in the Afghan capital, Kabul, days before the first anniversary of the group’s return to power ...The United Nations and rights groups have repeatedly slammed the Taliban government for imposing the restrictions on women.
CETINJE, MONTENGRO. Eleven people, including two children and a gunman, were killed in a mass shooting in Montenegro on Friday, and six others were injured, a state prosecutor told Vijesti TV after an initial investigation of the crime scene ... "The family was staying at the house of the shooter as tenants," Brdjanin said ... .
But so far, the Year of the Tiger has been full of stumbling blocks ... Then the economy showed signs of a serious slowdown, leading to growing unemployment among the young ... ....
ADDIS ABABA –. Ethiopia announced Friday it has completed the third filling of its mega-dam on the Blue Nile, a new milestone that could raise further tensions with downstream neighbours Egypt and Sudan... “The Nile is a gift of God given to us for Ethiopians to make use of it.” ... Concerns over impact ... Almost complete ... .
That’s the steepest decline since the government began tracking figures in 1961 ... The group’s CEO, George Leung, added that Hong Kong’s border closures were “stifling any prospect of economic recovery” and urged authorities to come up with a “concrete timetable to reopen Hong Kong.” ... The political crackdown ... .
New Delhi is suspicious of Beijing's increasing presence in the Indian Ocean and influence in Sri Lanka, seeing both as being firmly within its sphere of influence ... .
FBI agents in this week's search of former US PresidentDonald Trump's Floridahome removed 11 sets of classified documents including some marked as top secret, the Justice Department said on Friday, while also disclosing it had probable cause to conduct the search based on possible Espionage Act violations ... "They didn't need to 'seize' anything ... .
Accidente Muere Anne Heche Anne Heche Accidente de coche fatal. Los peores pronósticos se han cumplido. La actriz norteamericana Anne Heche falleció ayer a los 53 años tras pasar una semana en el hospital a raíz del impacto de su coche contra una casa en el barrio angelino de Mar Vista... Su vida estuvo plagada de tragedias ... Acababa de cumplir 18 años ... .
Taiwanese flags are seen as tourists walk past in Taiwan’s Kinmen islands on August 11, 2022. Sam Yeh / AFP... The official noted that Biden and Chinese PresidentXi Jinping have asked staff to arrange an in-person summit, but he declined to comment on reports that this could take place during the G20 group meeting in Bali this November ... .
The United States is wrapping up tests of its new Long-Range Discrimination Radar (LRDR) as part of a significant upgrade of its missile defense systems amid renewed great power competition and a renewed nuclear arms race, defense website Breaking News reports ... A Ground-Based Interceptor is lowered into its missile silo in Alaska ... Image ... Image ... ....
El escritor británico de 75 años se encuentra en condición grave en un hospital de Pensilvania tras ser atacado por un hombre de 24 años, que lo apuñaló en reiteradas ocasiones. Salman Rushdie... "Las noticias no son buenas", declaró la madrugada de este sábado (13.08.2022) su agente, Andrew Wylie, a The New York Times ...DZC (EFE, AFP). .
CHAUTAUQUA, N.Y. (AP) — Salman Rushdie, whose novel “The Satanic Verses” drew death threats from Iran’s leader in the 1980s, was stabbed in the neck and abdomen Friday by a man who rushed the stage as the author was about to give a lecture in western New York... Rushdie was once president of the group, which advocates for writers and free expression ... .
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Dhaka... Most tea workers in the country are descendants of labourers brought to the plantations by colonial-era British planters ... “The cost of production is increasing ... “Tea workers are like modern-day slaves,” said PhilipGain, director of the Society for Environment and Human Development, a research group, who has written books on tea workers ... .