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A roadside bomb hit a police vehicle patrolling near Kenya’s border with Somalia on Saturday, killing several of the 11 officers inside, a Kenyan police spokesman has said. Separately, another blast in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, killed eight people, according to emergency services. Both attacks were claimed by Somali Islamist insurgents who also kidnapped three Kenyan police reservists on Friday from the same area in Wajir district in north-east Kenya. Kenyan military forces have occupied part of southern Somalia along the border since 2011. The Kenyans, along with allied Somali militia, wrested control of the territory from al-Shabaab jihadists after a spate of kidnappings on Kenyan soil. Al-Shabaab is fighting the weak, UN-backed Somali government and its international allies in a quest to impose strict Islamic law. Exact casualty figures from Saturday’s patrol attack were still unclear, the police spokesman Charles Owino told Reuters. In Mogadishu, al-Shabaab … [Read more...] about Roadside bomb kills Kenyan police officers near Somali border

Pro-remain MPs are pulling back from plans to force a vote on attaching a second referendum to Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal on Saturday owing to fears that they do not have enough support. Leading supporters of a “people’s vote” had been planning to use so-called “Super Saturday” to test support for a second referendum. But sources close to the campaign said there was not enough backing among former Tories for the move to be successful. They denied that their pulling away from a vote was because the Labour leadership were lukewarm on the idea. As recently as Wednesday night, Jenny Chapman, a shadow Brexit minister, had said she was sure there would be a second referendum amendment and that Labour would support it, but Jeremy Corbyn has been less enthusiastic. Pro-remain MPs insisted it was a better idea to hold the vote at a later stage of the process, as soft Brexit Tories will be more likely to support a second referendum in the event that … [Read more...] about Remain MPs hold off on forcing vote on second EU referendum

A family whose pet Kelpie Ezra died after being stabbed four times with a large knife and had poison poured on her face in a random attack are demanding answers.  Rhiannon Symons, 19, allegedly saw a hooded man drive up to her family's property in Dederang near the Victoria and New South Wales border last week and stab their two-year-old dog with a large knife. He then allegedly got back in the blue Subaru and drove away. Ms Symons described the moment she ran outside to find her beloved pet covered in blood. Sharron (left) and Rhiannon Symons (right) are devastated about the death of dog Ezra RELATED ARTICLES Previous 1 Next EXCLUSIVE: Out-of-control teenagers bash a grandmother's dog... Heartless pet owner leaves their dog to die: Poor pooch is... Share this article Share 'I went out to find her rubbing her face and still crying and blood all on one side,' she told 7 News. 'She’d been stabbed four times and had poison poured on her face.' The … [Read more...] about Family is left devastated after their pet Kelpie named Ezra is killed after being stabbed and doused in poison by a mystery hooded man

The largest creature on the planet has left researchers and photographers stunned after it opened its bowels off the coast of Australia and turned the water bright yellow. Landscape photographer Ian Wiese was filming at Point Picquet, south of Perth, as the blue whale migrated south along the Western Australian coastline. The bowel movements were captured by a whale monitoring team, made up of volunteers who record the mammals as they head to cooler waters. more videos 1 2 3 Watch video Prince Andrew doesn't recollect the photo with Virginia Roberts Watch video EXCLUSIVE: Prince Andrew attends French Riviera party in late 2000s Watch video Prince Andrew remembers Pizza Express and not Virginia Roberts Watch video Prince Andrew: 'I had no idea he used girls for sex trafficking' Watch video Prince Andrew is asked if he felt guilt or shame over friendship Watch video Prince Andrew says he told Epstein they 'couldn't be seen … [Read more...] about Incredible moment a blue whale – the largest creature on Earth – opens its bowels off the coast of Australia and turns the water a mysterious bright yellow

Matthew Walker has learned to dread the question “What do you do?” At parties, it signals the end of his evening; thereafter, his new acquaintance will inevitably cling to him like ivy. On an aeroplane, it usually means that while everyone else watches movies or reads a thriller, he will find himself running an hours-long salon for the benefit of passengers and crew alike. “I’ve begun to lie,” he says. “Seriously. I just tell people I’m a dolphin trainer. It’s better for everyone.” Walker is a sleep scientist. To be specific, he is the director of the Center for Human Sleep Science at the University of California, Berkeley, a research institute whose goal – possibly unachievable – is to understand everything about sleep’s impact on us, from birth to death, in sickness and health. No wonder, then, that people long for his counsel. As the line between work and leisure grows ever more blurred, rare is the person who … [Read more...] about ‘Sleep should be prescribed’: what those late nights out could be costing you