Kenyan security forces have destroyed five camps used by suspected militants linked to the Somali Islamist group Al Shabaab in a sweep of a forest on the north coast, a commander in charge of the operation said.

An 8-year-old boy is being charged with beating a 1-year-old girl to death while they were left home alone as their mothers went to a nightclub, Alabama police said Tuesday.

Venezuelan Defence Minister Vladimir Padrino said on Sunday that a US plane had violated the South American country’s airspace.

A Jordanian policeman has shot dead two American instructors and a South African at a police training centre outside Amman, officials say.

The Mexican navy has rescued two Colombian and two Ecuadorean fishermen off the coast of the southern state of Chiapas. The fishermen said they had been adrift at sea for 30 days after their boat ran out of petrol.

Russian officials maintain, it is too early to know what caused a passenger jet to break apart and crash in Egypt on the weekend.

Dozens of same-sex couples in Chile have been celebrating as a new law recognising their unions came into effect.

The strongest hurricane ever recorded in the Americas is bearing down on Mexico’s Pacific coast, threatening a “potentially catastrophic” landfall.