Riyadh, Saudi Arabia | AFP | Saudi Arabia’s King Salman on Monday cut cabinet ministers’ salaries by 20 percent and reduced other state officials’ benefits in a continuing austerity drive to cope with lower oil revenues. The 160 members of the Shura Council, who include 30 women, will see a …
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Mogadishu, Somalia | AFP | Troubled Somalia on Monday announced it was delaying its elections for one more month to October and November due to security issues and administrative problems. Somalia’s internationally-backed government was supposed to hold national elections this year but instead scheduled a limited franchise election in which …
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VIDEO: Ugandans should brace for a showdown between the Police and supporters of the opposition Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) come this Thursday. This after Police revealed it had not authorized planned festivities to welcome back former FDC Presidential flagbearer in the February polls Dr Kiiza Besigye from weeks abroad where he …
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The Local Council (LC) 1 chairperson of Muyenga Hill village Yasin Omar has petitioned the Constitutional Court challenging several articles of the constitution relating to mandatory retirement of public servants and political figures on attaining stipulated age limits. Omar wants court to declare that it’s unconstitutional to lock out the youth who have not yet attained the …
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Washington, United States | AFP | Arnold Palmer, the golf great whose charisma and common touch drew a legion of fans known as “Arnie’s Army” and propelled the game into the mainstream, died Sunday at the age of 87. Palmer’s longtime assistant Doc Griffin confirmed the player known as “The …
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Wellington, New Zealand | AFP | New Zealand researchers said Monday they have restored the first recording of computer-generated music, created in 1951 on a gigantic contraption built by British genius Alan Turing. The aural artefact, which paved the way for everything from synthesizers to modern electronica, opens with a …
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Tokyo, Japan | AFP | A Japanese bullet train was forced to make an emergency stop on Monday after a snake was found slithering between the seats, local media reported. A passenger spotted the 30 centimetre (12 inch) serpent poking between a gap in the seats, prompting the train, travelling …
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Washington, United States | AFP | The lengthy US presidential campaign is careening towards a 90-minute Monday showdown, with Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump squaring off in their first televised debate as they sit nearly neck and neck in the polls. The event, which is expected to be …
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PICTORIAL: All former Uganda Members of Parliament (MPs), from the 1st to 9th Parliament, were today honoured with Golden Jubilee Medals. President Yoweri Museveni was chief guest at the occasion organised to recognize former MPs. It was organised by Uganda’s parliament at Serena Hotel in Kampala. Museveni promised to work on the …
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The Independent Uganda: You get the Truth we Pay the Price
