NAIROBI, Oct. 2 (Xinhua) -- Kenyan police said on Tuesday they have stepped up security surveillance across the country following intelligence reports that Somali militants were planning to carry out retaliatory terror attacks in the East African nation.

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The rooftop pool at Nairobi's newest high-rise hotel juts out over the edge so swimmers can peer through the glass bottom eight stories down. A new champagne bar sits nearby.

At least one child has been killed and several others injured in a grenade attack at a church in Kenyan capital of Nairobi.

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The acting police chief in Kenya's capital says an explosive device set off in a Sunday school class killed one child and seriously wounded three.

At least two children killed and two others wounded in Nairobi after suspected grenade attack on church.

Kenyan fighter jets have bombed an al-Shabab-controlled airport in the port city of Kismayo in southern Somalia.

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A Kenyan soldier is being investigated for allegedly shooting dead six Somalis believed to be civilians caught up in the ongoing battle between allied African troops and extremist insurgents in Somalia, an official said Monday

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A Kenyan man pleaded guilty Monday to possession of six bombs including four suicide vests and being a member of al-Shabab, the Somali Islamist extremist group allied to al-Qaida that has threatened terrorist attacks in Kenya.

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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenyan police disrupted a major terrorist attack Friday in its final stages of planning, arresting two people with explosive devices and seizing a cache of weapons and ammunition, officials said.

At least 38 people, including women and children have been killed in violent ethnic clashes between two rival groups in southeastern Kenya, Press TV reports.

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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Clashes between farmers and herders in southeastern Kenya escalated Monday with 38 people killed, including nine police officers, and a government official and the Kenya Red Cross suggested the military should be deployed to the area.

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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Fighting between a community of cattle herders and farmers over land and water killed 12 people on Friday in Kenya's southeastern region, the Kenya Red Cross said.

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Rioters clashed with police in Kenya's port city of Mombasa for a second day Tuesday, after the killing of an extremist cleric linked to Somalia's Al-Qaeda-allied militants, witnesses said.

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Kenya's incursion into neighboring Somalia has brought several retaliatory attacks from al-Shabab fighters, causing serious damage to Kenya's tourism industry, Press TV reports.

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A Venezuelan diplomat in Kenya was charged in court Monday with the murder of the acting ambassador, found strangled in her Nairobi home on July 27.

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US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has called on Kenyans to work together to ensure free and fair elections next year and avoid a repeat of the deadly post-poll violence seen four years ago.

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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Looking ahead to Kenya's national vote in March, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Saturday warned leaders and citizens in the East African nation not to repeat the deadly violence that plunged the country into chaos after disputed presidential elections five years ago.

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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton pressed the leaders of Kenya on the importance of fair and free elections on Saturday and encouraged the African nation to be a "model for the entire world."

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A grenade attack killed one person in a Somali suburb of the Kenyan capital on Friday, on the eve of a visit by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to the city, police said.

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A Kenyan court ruled Tuesday that a senior Venezuelan diplomat is to be held by police for six more days to allow further investigations into the death by strangulation of the acting ambassador.