NAIROBI, Kenya - International pressure mounted Wednesday on Kenya's leaders to bring an end to postelection violence that has shaken the country and killed more than 275 people, including dozens burned alive as they sought refuge in a church.

NAIROBI, Kenya - Kenya's opposition party demanded new presidential elections Friday as thousands of hungry slum dwellers swamped aid workers after days of deadly riots over the disputed vote cut supplies of groceries and water.

MOMBASA, Kenya - Cheering and guarded by Navy Seals, the crew of an American ship reached a Kenyan port Saturday evening without their captain, still held hostage by Somali pirates in a lifeboat hundreds of miles from shore.

Valerie Long said her faith pulled her toward a group of children halfway around the world. Those who know Long credit her compassion and work ethic.

WASHINGTON - The United States closed its embassy in Kenya on Friday after the Pentagon issued a terrorism alert to all U.S. interests there and raised the threat level to "high," officials said.

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ROME - Italy's Giuseppe Di Stefano, one of the greatest tenors of the 20th century and celebrated singing partner of Maria Callas, has died.

NAIROBI, Kenya — A global Internet oversight agency is reopening discussions about whether to create a ".xxx" domain name as an online red-light district where porn sites can set up shop away from the wandering eyes of children and teenagers.

NAIROBI, Kenya — A shootout between rival Somali pirate gangs over their biggest ransom ever threatened to turn an oil supertanker and the 28 hostages aboard into a massive fireball until bandits begged the anti-piracy force for help, a negotiator said Monday.

NAIROBI, Kenya — Crews on oil tankers aren't allowed to smoke above deck, much less carry guns, for fear of igniting the ship's payload. That's one of the main reasons Somali pirates met little resistance when they hijacked a U.S.-bound supertanker carrying $20 million in crude.

NAIROBI, Kenya — Somali pirates attacked an oil tanker and fired automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades Monday farther out at sea than any previous assault, suggesting that pirate capabilities are growing as they increase activity off East Africa.

WASHINGTON -- U.S. authorities have brought the first Guantanamo Bay detainee to the United States, flying him into New York to face trial for bombing U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya, the Justice Department said Tuesday.

One can hardly distinguish the racial tension from the sexual tension in "Something New," and that — the smart, forcible coupling of taboos — is what makes this otherwise formulaic romantic comedy so giddily satisfying.

Kris Anne Erickson was recently ordained to the sacred order of deacons at Living Faith Church, 1945 E. Guadalupe Road, Tempe. Erickson, who has completed a master’s degree in theology from Fuller Theological Seminary, has worked in missions in Kenya, Rwanda and other parts of Africa.