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The CIA investigated claims that a man who said he was Adolf Hitler was living in a community of ex-Nazis in the 1950s in Colombia, it has been revealed. Declassified documents indicate that although agents did not take the claim seriously, they did receive a photo of the man who had a striking resemblance to the German dictator. A former ...

Kenya’s opposition leader on Tuesday promised to give the government “no peace” as he announced a campaign of protests and pickets to overturn President Uhuru Kenyatta’s controversial re-election. Deepening the uncertainty clouding Kenya’s future, Raila Odinga dismissed the president as “the product of a fraud” after Mr Kenyatta was handed an equivocal mandate a day earlier when he was declared ...

A deadly truck attack in lower Manhattan this afternoon killed eight people and injured 13 others. New York Police Commissioner James O’Neill detailed how the incident, which is being investigated as possible terrorism, unfolded in a press conference. O’Neill said that at 3:05 p.m., the male suspect — driving a rented Home Depot truck, according to the company — turned onto ...

Nairobi – Church leaders in Kenya are calling for tolerance after the disputed presidential election, saying the vote has left the country “grossly divided along ethnic and political lines.” Peter Karanja, general secretary of The National Council of Churches of Kenya, said on Tuesday that opposing factions should engage in dialogue to overcome an “underlying problem that cannot be resolved ...

North Korea could attack Europe or the U.S. with a nuclear missile, the leader of the military alliance said Monday. North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said North Korean Kim Jong Un had developed the weapons to put Western nations in danger. “We recognize that Europe has also entered the [North Korean] missile range, and NATO member ...

Renewed protests erupted in parts of Kenya on Monday night after Uhuru Kenyatta was declared president of a bitterly divided nation for the second time in three months. Claiming a resounding mandate to serve a second five-year term, Mr Kenyatta accepted victory after securing 98 per cent of the vote in an election boycotted by his rival Raila Odinga. But ...

Nairobi – Kenya’s opposition leader Raila Odinga vowed on Tuesday not to accept a “sham” election, declaring he would push for a fresh vote through a campaign of civil disobedience and peaceful protest. He did not indicate whether he would file suit again at the country’s paramount court to have the election annulled. In his first reaction since his rival ...

Cairo – Egyptian state security prosecutors have extended the pre-trial detention of a young man arrested on charges of “promoting deviance” after fans waved rainbow flags at a rock concert last month. Lawyer Hoda Nasrallah says on Monday that the hearing for her client, Ahmed Alaa, took place a day earlier. The case involves another young defendant, Sarah Hegazy, whose ...

Goma – Four civilians and a policeman were killed on Monday in clashes in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo as demonstrations took place to demand President Joseph Kabila stand down this year, an AFP correspondent said. The journalist said he saw the bodies of four civilians lying in blood in the Madjengon district of Goma, capital of the troubled North ...

Nigeria’s air force says that it believes it has killed one of the wives of Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau in an airstrike. The air force bombed a meeting of a “large number of BHTs [Boko Haram terrorists]” on October 19 southeast of Maiduguri—the capital of Nigeria’s northeast Borno State—according to a statement on Wednesday from Olatokunbo Adesanya, spokesman for ...