Kenya police: 28 people killed in clashes

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A police official says 28 people have been killed in clashes between farmers and herders in south-eastern Kenya.Anthony Kamitu, who is leading police operations to prevent the attacks, said Friday that the Pokomo tribe of farmers raided a village of the Orma herding community, called Kipao, at dawn in the Tana River Delta.The latest deaths in a tit-for-tat cycle of killings may...

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FBI: 1 of 2 bank robbers who escaped federal Chicago jail arrested after dayslong manhunt

CHICAGO - Police say one of two bank robbers have been arrested after the pair's brazen escape from a high-rise federal jail in downtown Chicago sparked a dayslong manhunt.FBI spokeswoman Joan Hyde says Joseph Banks was captured late Thursday.Banks fled the Metropolitan Correctional Center early Tuesday with Kenneth Conley by apparently smashing a hole in a wall at the bottom of a narrow cell window...

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Raid on Kenyan coastal village leaves 28 dead

MOMBASA, Kenya (Reuters) - Raiders killed villagers and burnt homes in an early morning attack in Kenya's volatile coastal Tana Delta region that left 28 people dead, police said on Friday.They said the raid appeared to have been a revenge attack following clashes between farmers from the Pokomo tribe and semi-nomadic Orma tribesmen, who have fought for years over access to grazing, farmland and water...

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French leader: Al-Qaida link to Nigeria kidnapping

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — President Francois Hollande says a French engineer kidnapped in northern Nigeria was "without a doubt" seized by a group linked to al-Qaida's north African wing, or its jihadist affiliates.The French leader told Europe-1 radio on Friday that "powerfully armed" assailants captured the engineer two days earlier.Nigerian police have said that about 30 attackers stormed the French...

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Bernard Madoff's brother gets 10-year sentence

NEW YORK (AP) -- Peter Madoff was "frankly, not believable" when he claimed he was as surprised as anyone to learn his brother had blown $20 billion of investor money in a massive Ponzi scheme that lasted for decades, a judge said as she sentenced him to 10 years in prison.The disbelief was a recurring theme at the sentencing proceeding Thursday for the 67-year-old former chief compliance officer...

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