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EXPLAINED: What led Kenyans to burn part of Parliament and call for President's resignation?
Explainers | Jun 27, 2024, 09:37 AM ISTKenya's President came to power by appealing to the common people, describing himself as a “hustler” and vowing relief from economic pain. But Tuesday's deadly chaos in the capital, Nairobi, shows how far support for him has turned.
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Barack Obama's half-sister tear gassed during Kenyan protests against controversial bill | VIDEO
World | Jun 25, 2024, 11:11 PM ISTAuma Obama, a Kenyan activist and former US President Barack Obama's half-sister, was barely able to speak or see after she was hit by tear gas fired by Kenyan police. Thousands of people stormed the parliament against a controversial bill and police opened fire on the protesters.
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African conservatives to ban abortion despite women facing insult for becoming pregnant pre-marriage
World | Jul 02, 2023, 02:48 PM ISTBenin legalized abortion less than a year before the US Supreme Court ruling, though Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country, allows abortion only to save the mother’s life.
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Kenya cult starvation deaths reach 110 as preacher says 'Starve yourselves in order to meet Jesus'
World | May 02, 2023, 07:00 AM ISTAccording to the Kenyan Interior Ministry, five people have been found alive over the last two days by searches and aerial surveillance of the 50,000-acre Chakama ranch.
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Nairobi aka Alba Flores from Money Heist speaking fluent Telugu in viral video leaves fans startled
Web Series | May 25, 2021, 10:50 AM ISTAn old video of Alba Flores who played Nairobi in Money Heist has gone viral on the internet where she can be seen speaking Telugu fluently. The clip is from Spanish film 'Vicente Ferrer' in which she played the role of an Indian woman named Shamira. Alex Rodrigo's show is in the list of top 10 trending shows on Netflix in India.
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7 students killed as classroom collapses in Kenya’s Nairobi
World | Sep 23, 2019, 01:34 PM ISTParents wailed at the scene of The Precious Talent Top School in Nairobi. Hundreds of people gathered as emergency workers picked through debris. It was not clear whether anyone was trapped underneath.
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Fake bomb prompts emergency landing of Air France flight
World | Dec 21, 2015, 07:40 AM ISTNairobi: A fake explosive rigged with cardboard, sheets of paper and a household timer forced an Air France flight into an emergency landing in Kenya on Sunday, sending hundreds of passengers down emergency slides in
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Grundfos to make intelligent water dispensing units in India
Oct 08, 2015, 12:01 PM ISTBjerringbro (Denmark) : Danish group Grundfos A/S has decided to make intelligent water dispenser in India near Chennai for the Indian as well as its other global markets, said a senior group official.The DKK 23.6
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Barack Obama promotes equality for gays in Africa
World | Jul 26, 2015, 07:52 AM ISTNairobi: US President Barack Obama spoke on behalf of equality for gays in Africa, the continent with the most countries which criminalise same-sex relations.On a visit charged with symbolism because of Obama's family ties with Kenya, he
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30 Al Shabaab militants killed in Somalia
World | Nov 03, 2013, 06:44 AM ISTNairobi: At least 30 Al Shabaab militants were killed by joint Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) and Somalia National Army (SNA) near the Kenyan border Saturday, Kenya's military officials said.The Somali and Kenyan soldiers attacked the
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Keny mall attack: CCTV footage show 4 mall attackers, says official
World | Oct 02, 2013, 11:22 PM ISTNairobi, Kenya: Closed circuit television footage from a Nairobi mall attacked by terrorists last month shows four men carrying automatic weapons, a top government official said today, an indication there may not have been as
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Kenya mall attack: Survivors speak of their ordeal after siege comes to an end
World | Sep 25, 2013, 12:36 PM ISTNairobi: Survivors of the Westgate Mall described on Tuesday their experience of the militant attack that left dozens of civilians killed in a Nairobi mall.One of them, Syed Ibrahim told Sky News that the militants
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A look at the victims of the Kenya mall attack
World | Sep 24, 2013, 04:11 PM ISTNairobi: The victims of the attack on the upscale Westgate Mall in Kenya's capital were from around the world. Here are details about some of those who were killed or wounded.AUSTRALIAArchitect Ross Langdon worked in
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Kenya mall massacre: Survivors give chilling accounts of Al Shabab terrorists killing innocents, mutilating bodies
World | Sep 23, 2013, 01:18 PM ISTNairobi: Even as the Somalian terror group Al Shabab posted 15 names online of its "brave" fighters, the survivors of the world's deadliest shopping mall siege gave disturbing accounts of how the terrorists killed and
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Kenya mall attack: Day 4, gunfire continues, third Indian killed, toll 62
World | Sep 24, 2013, 03:40 PM ISTNairobi: Sporadic gunfire could be heard from the Westgate mall in Nairobi on Tuesday morning as government forces pressed on to try to end a four day standoff with militants that killed 62 people.Kenyan special
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Obama's brother is a hopeless drunk, lives in a one-room shack in Nairobi
World | Aug 11, 2012, 10:06 PM ISTNairobi, Aug 11: US President Barack Obama's half-brother George Hussein Obama lives in a shack near a junk-strewn yard in Nairobi. The two men may share the same father, but while Barack Obama was born
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Anna Hazare Has Deviated From His Objective, Says Rajendra Singh
India | Oct 28, 2011, 08:11 AM ISTJaipur, Oct 28: Anna Hazare has deviated from his objective and his team is full of arrogant people in which there is no room for good human beings, a former member of the Core Committee