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• Lawyers suspect Kenyan police in terror abduction

  (AP) -- Human rights officials accused the Kenyan police Friday of eliminating suspected terrorists after armed men dragged a terror suspect out of a car. He was the third terror suspect to be abducted since April.Lawyer Mbugua Mureithi said Sylvester Op   Read more »

• Official: 1 dead in explosion on Kenya's coast

  (AP) -- Police say attackers fired shots and detonated grenades outside a nightclub in Kenya's coastal town of Mombasa after they were denied entry, killing one person and injuring four.Aggrey Adoli, the police chief on Kenya's coast, said Wednesday a se   Read more »

• Kenya official: Refugee camp blast kills policeman

  (AP) -- A Kenyan official says a policeman has died after the car he was traveling in was hit by a suspected improvised bomb at the world's largest refugee camp, near the border with Somalia .George Kingi, police chief in Daadab refugee camp, said Tuesda   Read more »

• Keeler: Compassion is in our DNA

  What is the common trait linking Turkana Boy, a 1.5-million-year-old hominid with a nearly human-sized brain, to Richard Leakey , the legendary leader of the team of scientists who found the bones in the Turkana Basin of Kenya ?To get to the answer, you   Read more »

• Shoreham students run, raise money for Kenyans

  In few races are the winners actually outrun by a time that is minutes faster than theirs.But nevertheless, such winners were named at the eighth annual Kenya/USA Bi-Continental 5K Run at Shoreham-Wading River, a bi-continental run held simultaneously by   Read more »

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• Authorities: Kenyan says he ate heart of victim

  21-year-old college student from Kenya accused of killing a housemate told police he ate the victim's heart and part of his brain after he died. Alexander Kinyua hid the head and hands of the dead man in his family's basement laundry room in a suburb of Baltimore, 10:25 PM from eTaiwan News Read more »

• Status Quo Between 2 Sudans Is Not Quite War, Not Quite Peace

  Kenya — For the first time in months, after killing scores if not hundreds of each other’s men, Sudan and South Sudan are back at the negotiating table, wrangled into peace talks by an increasingly worried international coalition, including the United States 7:57 PM from The New York Times Read more »

• Baltimore College Student Murders Housemate, Dismembers Him & Eats His Heart and Brain (Video)

  But police say Kinyua’s brother is the one who found the remains, and his father called police. What’s up with these folks with Kenyan roots? At least Obama only ate dog… (as far as we know) and that guy who got whacked in Fla after eating a mans face ….he 7:41 PM from Gateway Pundit Read more »

• Kenya heads to Oregon in search of London hopeful

  to 44 years of Olympic frustration when the African country holds its men's 10,000 metres trial in Oregon on Friday. Fourteen Kenyans will line up in a special race at the Prefontaine Classic Diamond League meeting in Eugene, Oregon, hoping to get a step closer 7:41 PM from The Star Malaysia Read more »

• New York Faith Community and Sikhs of Kenya: A Partnership is Born

  It is fitting, then, that the Sikh community of Kenya would step up as leaders when famine struck. Around 39,000 Sikhs live in Kenya. When the crisis began, the Kenyan community promptly founded The Sri Guru Nanak Food Bank. The founders hope that the food 7:29 PM from The Huffington Post Read more »