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NAIROBI – Kenyans have asked prodding questions directed at government authorities and demanded for answers which the State has avoided answering since the Saturday massacre.
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NAIROBI – Kenya on Thursday buried victims of a four-day mall massacre by Islamist gunmen, as police pleaded for patience as searchers combed the charred rubble of the devastated complex for dozens still missing.
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UNITED NATIONS. — Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff lambasted US spying on her country at Tuesday’s UN summit, calling it a “breach of international law.”
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JOHANNESBURG. — A British woman thought to be linked to the Nairobi mall attacks used an assumed South African identity to take out bank loans and rent property in Johannesburg, local media reported yesterday.
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HAVANA. — Cuba’s Council of Ministers has approved a series of “strategic” development measures as part of an ongoing process to modernise its aging economic model, official media reported on Tuesday.
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AWARAN. — Desperate villagers in south-west Pakistan clawed through the wreckage of their ruined homes yesterday, a day after a huge earthquake struck, killing more than 300 people and creating a new island off the coast.
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KHARTOUM. — Sudan’s Education Ministry yesterday announced a short-term suspension of all schools in the capital Khartoum due to ongoing protests against fuel prices increase.
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DAMASCUS – UN inspectors returned to Syria Wednesday to pursue a probe into alleged poison gas attacks, as Russia and the West wrangled over how to eliminate President Bashar al-Assad’s banned chemical weapons.
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BEIRUT – A decision by key Syrian rebel groups to break with the Western-backed National Coalition further splinters the opposition and poses a key challenge for its international supporters, analysts say.
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NEW YORK CITY – Syrian opposition leaders Tuesday openly took issue with the US government’s failure to launch a missile attack on the Syrian regime and pressed for assurances of US support in talks with US Secretary of State John Kerry.
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NAIROBI – Somalia’s al-Shebaab insurgents claimed Wednesday 137 hostages they had seized died in a Nairobi shopping mall siege, figures impossible to verify and higher than the number of people officially registered as missing.
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LONDON – A British national has been arrested in Nairobi over the bloody attack on a shopping mall by armed Islamists, a spokeswoman for the Foreign Office said on Wednesday.
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UNITED NATIONS — UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moonMonday galvanised heads of state, business leaders and philanthropists into joint action against extreme poverty, hunger and disease, to propel the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) across the finishing line.
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JERUSALEM – Israel, which is said to have aided Kenya during the deadly attack on a Nairobi mall, has long viewed East Africa as a region of major strategic and economic importance.
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CHICAGO – Dozens of Americans have been lured away from comfortable homes to join Somalia’s al-Shabaab insurgents, the Islamist group behind the bloody attack on a Kenyan mall.