Group: Kenyan security forces 'disappear' 34 suspects and other top stories.

• Group: Kenyan security forces 'disappear' 34 suspects

  By Associated Press July 20 at 8:16 AM KAMPALA, Uganda — Human Rights Watch says security forces in Kenya have forcibly disappeared at least 34 people over the past two years during “abusive” counterterrorism operations in the capital and the northeastern part of the country. In a report released Wednesday, the rights group urges Kenyan authorities to investigate the disappearances and the deaths of detainees in the northeast. The report cites cases where suspects arrested over alleged ties ..

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• May, Merkel to meet during new British Prime Minister's first foreign trip

  

  Britain's impending exit from the European Union will loom large over the working dinner between the two leaders, intended to build May's relationship with the German Chancellor ahead of tricky "Brexit" negotiations, according to a statement from 10 Downing Street.The German trip will be followed by a visit to Paris on Thursday, where May will hold talks with French President Francois Hollande."I am determined that Britain will make a success of leaving the European Union and that's why I have d..

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• Turkey coup attempt: Academics banned from going abroad

  

  Image copyright AP Image caption The government says it wants to prevent university-based coup plotters from fleeing abroad Turkey has temporarily banned all academics from travelling abroad, officials say. The move follows last week's failed coup and comes amid a wide-ranging purge of state employees. More than 50,000 people have been rounded up, sacked or suspended, including about 21,000 teachers.President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is chairing meetings ..

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• KFC boycotts, smashed iPhones latest in South China Sea spat

  

  Chinese nationalists are boycotting KFC outlets and smashing their iPhones in protest of American companies. USA TODAYPeople carrying Chinese flags hold a protest outside a KFC restaurant outlet in Baoying county in east China's Jiangsu province.(Photo: AP)Chinese state media called for "rational patriotism" Wednesday amid a number of anti-U.S. protests in recent days about the outcome of a United Nations tribunal that ruled against Beijing in its spat with the Philippines over territor..

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• Watch: Past leaders make their PMQs debut

  

  As Theresa May prepares to make her Prime Minister's Questions debut, a look at how previous leaders and opposition leaders fared on their first outing.David Cameron Media captionCameron's first PMQs: 'He was the future once' Making his debut against Tony Blair in December 2005, David Cameron's famous line was when he said of the prime minister: "He was the future once." Indeed, Mr Cameron went full circle with this, joking at his last ever appearance at Prime Minister's Questions, before ha..

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• France says 3 soldiers killed during anti-terror mission in Libya

  

  Soldiers patrols on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice, the scene of last week’s truck attack that killed more than 80 people. (Claude Paris/AP) PARIS — Three French soldiers were killed in Libya "while on a mission," the French Defense Ministry announced Wednesday in the first official confirmation that French special forces have been active in Libya in apparent operations against the Islamic State. French officials gave few details on the deaths. But the Associated Press, quoting Libyan ..

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• Turkey blocks access to WikiLeaks after ruling party email dump

  

  ISTANBUL Turkey has blocked access to the WikiLeaks website, the telecoms watchdog said on Wednesday, hours after it leaked thousands of ruling party emails just as Ankara grapples with the aftermath of a failed military coup.Around 50,000 soldiers, police, judges and teachers have been suspended or detained since the attempted coup on the weekend, and Turkey's Western allies have expressed concern over the crackdown's reach. WikiLeaks on Tuesday released nearly 300,000 emails from the AK Part..

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• Seaplane Crashes on Inaugural Flight in China, Killing 5

  

  A seaplane making its inaugural flight crashed into a highway bridge outside Shanghai on Wednesday, killing five people on board, local authorities and state media said. The Cessna 208B, operated by Joy Air General Air, was carrying two crew members and eight invited guests, mostly government workers and local journalists, according to local media. The five survivors — who included the pilot — were sent to a hospital for treatment, the Jinshan district government said on its official microb..

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• Prominent journalist killed in apparent car bomb assassination

  

  MOSCOW -- A prominent journalist was killed in a car bombing in Ukraine's capital, Kiev, on Wednesday, sending shockwaves through the Ukrainian journalist community that was shaped by the gruesome killing of the publication's founder 16 years ago.The country's top online news website Ukrainska Pravda said its journalist Pavel Sheremet died in an explosion early on Wednesday as he got into his car to drive to work to anchor a talk show on a local radio station.The publication said the car was ow..

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