The Non-Governmental Organisations Co-ordinating Board of Kenya may be empowered to conduct tighter reviews of the legal status of NGOs operating in Kenya, after several members of the Kenyan Parliament raised loud objections over the weekend concerning a report detailing nearly 1 Billion in Kenyan Shillings that has been distributed to fake NGOs by the [...]

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Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika said Monday that the country will hold a referendum on September 29 on a draft charter for peace and national reconciliation for those involved in the instability and conflicts of the last 13 years. The proposal allows cases to be dropped against those who put down their arms and surrendered to [...]

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Shiite and Kurdish leaders said Monday that they are prepared to submit the draft of Iraq's new constitution to parliament, just meeting the August 15 deadline, even in the face of Sunni Arab objections. Though it could cause an increase in insurgent attacks, Shiite politician Hassan al-Sunnaid said there were "no deadlocks" and that the [...]

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Indian Defense Minister Pranab Mukherjee Sunday announced plans to implement a new set of anti-terror measures that would allow the military to shoot down hijacked commercial planes the government believes will be used as weapons, prohibit negotiations with hijackers, and sentence convicted hijackers to death. Six years ago, hijackers diverted Indian Airlines flight 814 to [...]

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The family of Saddam Hussein told reporters Sunday that the Iraqi Special Tribunal has blocked its attempt to replace the former dictator's massive Jordan-based legal team. Earlier this month, Hussein's family dissolved said it was dissolving the fractious collection of some 2000 lawyers and had appointed Iraqi lawyer Khalil Dulaimi as lead counsel, alleging Saddam [...]

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Iraqi political leaders and lawmakers met again Sunday amid conflicting reports about the likelihood that the Iraqi constitutional committee would complete a draft of the new Iraqi constitution before the August 15 deadline. On Saturday, Iraqi President Jalal Talabani indicated that the committee had reached tentative agreements on certain issues, but the key issues of [...]

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Security in the Gaza Strip increased Sunday, on the eve of the implementation of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's disengagement plan to withdraw Israeli settlers . Police are expected to encounter pockets of resistance following the midnight start of the pullout , at which time border crossings to settlements will be sealed, and army officers [...]

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Former London Metropolitan Police Commissioner Lord John Stevens slammed British human rights groups Sunday for their efforts to block the controversial new UK policy of deporting persons preaching violence or hatred or posing a threat to national security. Prime Minister Tony Blair announced the policy changes earlier this month following the July London bombings, and [...]

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