Secret files show Kenya 1959 Hola detention camp massacre cover-up

SECRET documents just released show how British colonial authorities in Kenya tried to hush up the 1959 Hola detention camp massacre, in which 11 men were beaten to death.

 

The files shed more light on the March 3, 1959 deaths during the Mau Mau uprising, which were initially blamed on contaminated water, though autopsies found the men were severely beaten. No prosecutions were ever brought.

The papers revealed that prison camp staff made no attempt to tell the truth about what happened, while the government minister for Britain's colonies wanted the incident to "drop out of sight", according to the files released on Friday.

Many more Kenyans were injured in the incident.

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Pakistan to free more Taliban prisoners

PAKISTAN has agreed to free more Taliban prisoners in the future, a move considered a key step to coaxing the militant group into peace negotiations to end the 11-year-old war in Afghanistan.

 

The decision was announced in a statement by the foreign ministry in Islamabad after a one-day visit by Afghan Foreign Minister Zalmay Rasoul, who held talks with his Pakistani counterpart, Hina Rabbani Khar.

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Hillary Clinton jokes about a presidential run

The incessant chatter about a 2016 presidential run by Hillary Rodham Clinton has gotten to the point where she seems to be making jokes about it.

The secretary of State -- and the spouse of ex-president Bill Clinton -- appeared to reference the rumors during a speech Friday in which she praised top aide Jake Sullivan.

"When Jake Sullivan first came to work for me, I told my husband about this incredibly bright rising star -- Rhodes Scholar, Yale Law School -- and my husband said, 'Well, if he ever learns to play the saxophone, watch out,'" Clinton said.

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Man kills Wyoming professor, woman, self

A man wielding a "sharp-edged weapon" — possibly a bow and arrows — killed a Casper College faculty member during a science class Friday morning, then committed suicide, Wyoming police say.

Earlier, the suspect murdered a pajama-clad woman on a city street near campus.
Police Chief Chris Walsh said the male faculty member and the killer were found dead in a classroom at the community college's physical science center about 9 a.m. MT (11 a.m. ET). The barefoot woman was found about 2 miles away Hawthorne Avenue, the Casper Star-Tribune reports.

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Obama hits the road to talk tax rates

President Obama is taking to the road today to press his case for adopting his plan to avert the "fiscal cliff."
Obama will visit the Rodon Group, a company in the Philadelphia suburbs called K'Nex Brands, a construction toy company whose products include Tinkertoy and Angry Birds Building Sets.

The trip comes one day after Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner met with congressional leaders and presented a plan that included $1.6 trillion in higher taxes over the next decade, while maintaining the George W. Bush-era tax cuts for the middle class. That offer was rejected by the Republican leadership, which opposes hiking taxes for any Americans.

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