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Obama: Kenyans and Americans can build on visit to bring peace

Barack Obama was treated to a state banquet hosted by Kenya’s President Kenyatta in Nairobi on Saturday night. The US president has said Washington

Kenya

Obama in Kenya: a pledge to work together but also criticism

The US and Kenyan leaders disagreed on some matters, including the country's record on gay rights

Kenya

Africa is on the move, says Obama in Kenya

Speaking at a summit in Nairobi Obama told African entrepreneurs their work offered an alternative to ideologies of violence and could help push back corruption.

Kenya

Obama's Kenya trip begins with family dinner in father's homeland

The US president has arrived in Nairobi for this first visit since his election in 2008 to the country where his father was born.

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Kenya

President Obama arrives in Kenya with Nairobi in security lockdown

US President Barack Obama has arrived in Kenya. Landing in the country where his father was born he was met by his half-sister Auma and Kenyan

Syria

Westerners volunteer with Kurdish militia against ISIL

Westerners are also committed combatants against the Islamic State jihadist movement in Syria. They have been fighting at the side of the Kurdish

USA

Louisiana killer planned escape before police closed in

Police have identified the gunman who killed two women and left nine others injured before shooting himself in a cinema in Lafayette, Louisiana

Sport

US request extradition for disgraced former Fifa exec Leoz

Nicolas Leoz has become the latest disgraced former fifa official on the US department’s extradition hit list. Paraguay has officially received an

Sport

Football's glamour man Pirlo presented in new York

New York City FC officially presented their new signing on Thursday – football’s glamour man Andrea Pirlo. The 36-year-old Italian midfielder joined

Turkey

Turkish airstrikes in Syria could signal new role in fight against ISIL

Ankara has also dropped its earlier refusal to allow US warplanes to launch strikes from a Turkish base

USA

Obama travels to father's homeland of Kenya

Barack Obama has left for a visit to Kenya, his first trip to his father’s homeland as US President. Obama previously travelled to the country as a

USA

Sandra Bland death ruled 'suicide by hanging'

The preliminary results support the medical examiner's initial ruling of suicide in the case of Sandra Bland who died three days after being arrested in a traffic stop.

USA

Three dead in US cinema shooting in Lafayette, Louisiana

A man has opened fire in a cinema in the US state of Louisiana. Three people are reported to have died during the attack in the city of Lafayette

USA

Alternative Iran deal 'a fantasy', Kerry tells Congress

The US Secretary of State John Kerry has vociferously defended the nuclear deal struck with Iran, as he testified before Congress. He arrived to

Iraq

Iraq: US Defense Secretary makes surprise visit

The US Defense Secretary has made a surprise visit to Baghdad. Ash Carter is in Iraq to assess the progress on plans for an offensive to retake the

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Playing in a plastic sea in Washington D.C.

Kyrgyzstan

Kyrgyzstan cancels cooperation agreement with United States

Kyrgyzstan has cancelled a cooperation agreement with the United States after the US awarded a human rights prize to Azimzhan Askarov, an activist

USA

Donald Trump: rich, offensive and racing for the White House

US presidential contender Donald Trump, so rich, can offend people to his heart’s content. He is not accountable to donors, like so many of his

Kenya

Obama rejects calls to avoid issue of homosexuality on Kenya trip

USA

California wildfire burns 1,000 acres

Nearly 300 firefighters are continuing to battle a fast-moving wildfire in Napa County, California, on Wednesday (July 22). According to local

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