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People and rescue workers attend the scene of a building that collapsed in Tasia Embakasi, an east neighbourhood of Nairobi, Kenya on Friday Dec. 6, 2019. A six-story building collapsed in Kenya's capital on Friday, officials said, with people feared to be trapped in the debris. Police say people have been rescued by residents using their bare hands. (AP Photo/Khalil Senosi)

Kenya building collapse toll hits 10 but 2 survivors found

By TOM ODULA - Associated Press

People at the scene of a collapsed building in in Tasia Embakasi, an east neighbourhood of Nairobi, Kenya on Friday Dec. 6, 2019. A six-story building collapsed in Kenya's capital on Friday, officials said, with people feared to be trapped in the debris. Police say people have been rescued by residents using their bare hands. (AP Photo/Khalil Senosi)

6-story building collapses in Nairobi; at least 4 killed

By TOM ODULA - Associated Press

In this photo taken Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2019, Steven Lacchin, 39, left, takes a selfie with Gerald Erebon, 30, right, who DNA tests indicate is his half-brother, as they meet for the first time in Nairobi, Kenya. An Associated Press story on the front page of a newspaper in Nairobi brought together the two Kenyan men - one who knew that his father was an Italian missionary priest, and the other who wanted proof that he was the son of the same priest. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Italian priest, and 2 Kenyan men who say he’s their father

By KHALED KAZZIHA and NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

Gerald Erebon looks over livestock at the Archers Post settlement in Kenya on Sunday, June 30, 2019. Erebon has been an outcast all his life: Tall, light-skinned with wavy hair, he looks nothing like the dark-skinned Kenyan man listed as his father on his birth certificate, or his black mother or siblings. He and his family say that’s because his biological father is the Rev. Mario Lacchin, an Italian priest of the Consolata Missionaries order who ministered in Archers Post, Kenya in the 1980s. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

Church accused of covering up priest’s abuse, and paternity

By NICOLE WINFIELD and RODNEY MUHUMUZA - Associated Press

Relatives grieve as bodies of some of the victims are retrieved by rescuers, after a flash flood in Hell's Gate national park near Naivasha, Kenya Monday, Sept. 2, 2019. Kenyan authorities have suspended visits to the gorges of the park in the Rift Valley after the flash flood, which occurred Sunday evening, killed a number of tourists and their driver. (AP Photo)

Kenya park suspends gorge visits after flash flood kills 7

By Tom Odula - Associated Press

Uganda Airlines launches new operations with Kenya trip

By Associated Press - Associated Press

U.S. Attorney William McSwain announces the arrest of Gregory Dow, 60, of Lancaster, Pa. during a news conference at the Lancaster County Courthouse Friday July 12, 2019, in Lancaster, Pa. Dow is accused of four counts of violating a U.S. law against sexual contact with minors in foreign countries.Dow fled Kenya in September 2017, around the time he was accused in that country of sexual abuse of girls at the Dow Family Children's Home in Boito, McSwain said. (AP Photo/Jacqueline Larma)

US man accused of sex abuse at Kenyan orphanage he founded

By MARK SCOLFORO - Associated Press

After deportation, Vermont family copes with year apart

By JOHN DILLON - Associated Press

This undated photo provided by Carleton University shows Pius Adesanmi. Adesanmi, a Nigerian professor with Carleton University in Ottowa, Canada, was one of the victims who died Sunday, March 10, 2019, when an Ehtiopian Airlines jet crashed shortly after takeoff in Ethiopia. (Josh Hotz/Courtesy of Carleton University via AP)

Ethiopian crash victims were aid workers, doctors, students

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Airplane parts lie on the ground at the scene of an Ethiopian Airlines flight crash near Bishoftu, or Debre Zeit, south of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Monday, March 11, 2019. A spokesman says Ethiopian Airlines has grounded all its Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft as a safety precaution, following the crash of one of its planes in which 157 people were killed. (AP Photo/Mulugeta Ayene)

The Latest: US aviation team arrives at Ethiopia crash site

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In this image taken from video, rescuers search through wreckage at the scene of an Ethiopian Airlines flight that crashed shortly after takeoff at Hejere near Bishoftu, or Debre Zeit, some 50 kilometers (31 miles) south of Addis Ababa, in Ethiopia Sunday, March 10, 2019. The Ethiopian Airlines flight crashed shortly after takeoff from Ethiopia's capital on Sunday morning, killing all 157 on board, authorities said, as grieving families rushed to airports in Addis Ababa and the destination, Nairobi. (AP Photo/Yidnek Kirubel)

Government officials, doctors among Ethiopian crash victims

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Family members arrive at Bole International airport in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Sunday, March 10, 2019, to check on information on the Ethiopian flight that crashed. An Ethiopian Airlines flight crashed shortly after takeoff from Ethiopia’s capital on Sunday morning, killing all 157 people thought to be on board, the airline and state broadcaster said. (AP Photo/Elias Masseret)

Correction: Ethiopia-Plane-Crash-The Latest story

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Denmark’s Inger Andersen elected UN environment chief

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A man with minor injuries is taken away by paramedics from the scene of a small blast in Nairobi, Kenya, Saturday, Jan. 26, 2019. An explosive device went off after a handcart pusher was given a small piece of luggage by an unknown person outside a cinema in a busy part of the capital Saturday night, injuring one person, a police officer said. (AP Photo/John Muchucha)

Explosion near cinema hits weeks after deadly Kenya attack

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA - Associated Press

Kenyan court orders 4 more attack suspects to be held

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Kenyan police say attack on Chinese facilities is repelled

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The Latest: 5 suspected in Kenya attack appear in court

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The Latest: 9 others arrested after deadly Kenya attack

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

In this grab taken from security camera footage released to the local media, an armed attacker walks in the compound of a hotel, in Nairobi, Kenya, Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2019. Extremists launched an attack on a luxury hotel in Kenya's capital, sending people fleeing in panic as explosions and heavy gunfire reverberate through the neighborhood. A police officer says he saw bodies, &quot;but there was no time to count the dead.&quot; Al-Shabab _ the Somalia-based extremist group _ is claiming responsibility. (Security Camera Footage via AP)

AP Explains: Who are al-Shabab attackers of Kenya hotel?

By ANDREW MELDRUM - Associated Press

In this grab taken from security camera footage released to the local media, heavily armed attackers walk in the compound of a hotel, in Nairobi, Kenya, Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2019. Extremists launched an attack on a luxury hotel in Kenya's capital, sending people fleeing in panic as explosions and heavy gunfire reverberate through the neighborhood. A police officer says he saw bodies, &quot;but there was no time to count the dead.&quot; Al-Shabab _ the Somalia-based extremist group _ is claiming responsibility. (Security Camera Footage via AP)

The Latest: UN Security Council condemns Kenya attack

By The Associated Press - Associated Press