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No confidence vote in MP
NAIROBI -Kenya's parliament passed a vote of no confidence against finance minister Amos Kimunya yesterday, after an acrimonious debate in which many legislators called for his resignation over the sale of a luxury hotel.
Despite the vote, it will be solely up to President Mwai Kibaki to decide whether his ally stays in office.
Last week's sale of the Grand Regency to a group including Libyan investors has deepened tensions in Kenya's already fragile coalition government and been condemned as a corrupt deal by anti-graft watchdogs. - (Reuters)
Hain hopes file will clear name
LONDON -Peter Hain said he hoped to see his name cleared "as quickly as possible" after police handed prosecutors results of their investigation into his Labour Party deputy leadership campaign.
Scotland Yard delivered its evidence file to the Crown Prosecution Service yesterday for a decision on whether charges should be brought over the failure to declare more than €100,000 in donations last year.
Mr Hain, resigned as work and pensions secretary in January.
Al-Jazeera hire Gitmo veteran
DUBAI -Al Jazeera television said yesterday it had appointed a cameraman held for six years without charge at the US prison in Guantanamo Bay as producer at its new freedoms and human rights programmes department.
"I will do my utmost to reveal to the world the violations committed against humans," Sudanese-born Sami al-Haj, who was released in May, said in a Jazeera statement announcing the appointment.
"I hope Jazeera, through creating this department would be able to help those who suffer quietly due to such violations." Haj suffered health problems after a long hunger strike before his release. - (Reuters)
Flat screens 'worse than coal'
LONDON -The rising demand for flat-screen televisions could have a greater impact on global warming than the world's largest coal-fired power stations, a leading environmental scientist warned yesterday.
Manufacturers use a greenhouse gas called nitrogen trifluoride to make the televisions. As a driver of global warming, the gas is 17,000 times more potent than carbon dioxide, said Michael Prather, director of the environment institute at the University of California, Irvine. - (Guardian)