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Gunmen have killed at least 29 people near a popular tourist destination in Kenya, while a dispute over who was responsible looks set to fuel political tensions.
Late on Saturday, assailants raided the trading post of Hindi and the town of Gamba in the Lamu coastal region, where 60 people were massacred last month in the deadliest attack in Kenya since the Westgate mall siege in Nairobi.
Kenya coastal raids kill dozens as political tensions rise
Israeli police arrest six over Mohamed Abu Khdeir killing
Israeli police have arrested six Jewish suspects in the abduction and murder of a Palestinian teenager in East Jerusalem last week.
Sources said the detained suspects belonged to an extremist Jewish group. Investigators into the killing of 17-year-old Mohamed Abu Khdeir have said they believe the crime was "nationalist" in motivation.
Some sources suggested those arrested had previous criminal records and may be linked to a well-known group of football hooligans.
Israeli police seek to extend US teen's detention
Israeli police say an American teenager who was detained during violent protests over the killing of a Palestinian youth has been brought before a court.
Spokeswoman Luba Samri says police are asking the Jerusalem district court on Sunday to extend the detention of 15-year-old Tariq Abu Khdeir.
Abu Khdeir's parents say their son, who goes to school in Florida, was beaten by Israeli police during clashes over the killing of Mohammed Abu Khdeir who Palestinians say was killed by Israeli extremists in a revenge attack. The two young men are cousins.
Hundreds of fuel tanker trucks burn outside Afghan capital
Attackers set fire to hundreds of fuel tanker trucks in a parking lot on the outskirts of the Afghan capital, witnesses said Saturday, prompting angry drivers to block a major highway to demand reimbursement for their losses.
Hundreds of other drivers stood by helplessly on Saturday morning, unable to salvage any property as flames and smoke rose from the area and several fire engines rushed to the site.
Germany arrests BND member on suspicion of spying for US
A new surveillance scandal is threatening to unsettle US-German relations after it emerged that an employee of the Germany's intelligence agency has been arrested under suspicion of acting as a double agent for the USA.
According to several reports in the German media, a 31-year-old member of the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) administration department in Pullach was on Wednesday arrested by the country's federal prosecutor, originally under suspicion of passing on information to Russian intelligence services.
Gangs of Israeli Vigilantes Roam Streets Attacking Palestinians
Mousa Abu Ayadeh says that he expects anti-Arab discrimination in Israel. But he never imagined he would be the victim of a violent vigilante attack, as he was on June 30.
Abu Ayadeh told AlterNet he “was beaten and stabbed by ten Israeli men.” He suspects the crime was in retaliation for the killing of three Israeli youth who had been kidnapped on June 12 and were found dead just a few hours before he was attacked.
U.S. 'concerned' about being barred from GSK-linked China trial
The United States is worried that its officials have been barred from attending the Aug. 7 trial in China of British investigator Peter Humphrey and his American wife Yu Yingzeng after the couple were arrested last year following work they did for British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline PLC.
The concerns, voiced by the U.S. embassy in Beijing, adds a political dimension to the trial, which could become another thorny issue between the two economic powers, already tussling over areas ranging from cyber security and human rights to Chinese policy in the South China Sea.
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