No love for the dollar as markets fret about Fed independence after Trump threatens chair with sack

No love for the dollar as markets fret about Fed independence after Trump threatens chair with sack

Down 10 per cent so far this year and set for its worst year since 2003, the dollar was expected to weaken further as renewed concern about Fed independence comes amid increased expectations for rate cuts and a looming July 9 deadline for trade agreements.

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Kenya’s long distance queen Faith Kipyegon falls short in attempt to run under 4-minute mile in Paris

Kenya’s long distance queen Faith Kipyegon falls short in attempt to run under 4-minute mile in Paris

Faith Kipyegon appeared to struggle midway through the race and failed in her attempt to shave at least 7.65 seconds off her world record. To achieve the feat, Kipyegon would have needed to run each of her four laps an average of about two seconds faster.

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Adverse childhood experiences: Study finds Kenyan adolescents highly susceptible to mental distress

Adverse childhood experiences: Study finds Kenyan adolescents highly susceptible to mental distress

The findings also pointed to socioeconomic and family-related vulnerabilities where adolescents with only one surviving parent had 18 per cent higher adversity scores and those performing poorly in school were 15 per cent more likely to have faced adversity.

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Kenya drafts law to shield senior citizens against economic and social vulnerabilities, keep them active in economy

Kenya drafts law to shield senior citizens against economic and social vulnerabilities, keep them active in economy

Article 6 also obligates the state to ensure prompt payment of pension and other forms of social security for older persons to enable them to lead comfortable and dignified lives in their sunset years.

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Alternative medicine: Why after FDA finding that snake venom in approved drugs treats stroke convinces biohackers humans can live forever

Alternative medicine: Why after FDA finding that snake venom in approved drugs treats stroke convinces biohackers humans can live forever

For the biohackers, decentralisation is a feature, not a bug. It’s a safeguard against corruption. “The biohacking community,” Fabrizio “Fab” Mancini, a chiropractor and frequent flier of the daytime TV medical circuit, tells me, “is not owned by any one entity. It’s actual individuals.” In a community for whom deregulation is entirely the point, though, how do you screen for bullshit?

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US health secretary’s ‘alternative medicine’ push inspired quest to ‘live forever’ via snake venom, urine therapy

US health secretary’s ‘alternative medicine’ push inspired quest to ‘live forever’ via snake venom, urine therapy

Biohacking is a big tent, combining Silicon Valley technology, Burning Man spirituality and health libertarianism. If anything unites this crowd, it is a distrust of the medical status quo – particularly the pharmaceutical industry – and an appetite for tech-heavy alternatives.

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Cruel husband and wife arrested for burning son’s hands with molten plastics for stealing, eating fish

Cruel husband and wife arrested for burning son’s hands with molten plastics for stealing, eating fish

The minor was then handed over to the Children’s Department in Ndhiwa before being taken to a safe house.

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Amnesty Kenya: 16 Kenyans shot dead in protests against extrajudicial killings, abductions and police brutality

Amnesty Kenya: 16 Kenyans shot dead in protests against extrajudicial killings, abductions and police brutality

Large crowds were seen earlier heading in the direction of State House, the president’s official residence, in scenes broadcast by Kenyan channel NTV before it and another broadcaster KTN were pulled off the air after defying an order to stop live broadcasts of the demonstrations.

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Six-million-dollar question: Are ‘wildebeest-like’ Bararo nomads still part of indigenous Ugandan communities?

Six-million-dollar question: Are ‘wildebeest-like’ Bararo nomads still part of indigenous Ugandan communities?

We know that some years ago, during the reign of President Jakaya Kikwete in Tanzania, thousands of nomadic pastoralists were chased from Tanzania and they ended up in Uganda. When you tell the nomadic pastoralists to go where they came from, are you also telling them to go back to Tanzania?

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Pirates of the past: How buccaneers and criminals shaped history, modern military, democracy and world trade

Pirates of the past: How buccaneers and criminals shaped history, modern military, democracy and world trade

Conquests by pirates have been in many instances an inspiration to sportsmen, musicians and filmmakers. Tales of conquests by pirates are stuff of the impossible. Piracy can easily be the byword for heroism, which mankind craves.

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