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JERUSALEM — Scarred by memories of a pair of attacks on Israeli targets in Africa a decade ago, Israel has dispatched a team of experts to its close ally Kenya to advise authorities on the bloody standoff at a Nairobi shopping mall.



Soldiers arrive at the Westgate Mall on Saturday in Nairobi, Kenya. A gun battle inside the shopping center left several people dead after gunmen attacked one of the city
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Kenyan forces launch assault to end hostage siege

NAIROBI, Kenya — Kenyan security forces launched a “major” assault late Sunday on the upscale Nairobi mall where an unknown number of hostages were being held by al-Qaida-linked militants, in an operation officials said would end the two-day standoff that had already killed 68 people.







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