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WORLD NEWS Tuesday 7 January 2020

Kenya police: 3 arrested trying to enter British Army camp

By TOM ODULA Al-Shabab has vowed retri-
CARA ANNA bution for Kenyan troops
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Ke- fighting it in neighboring
nyan police say they arrest- Somalia, where it is based.
ed three "terrorist suspects" Five U.S. aircraft, including
who tried to force their way fixed-wing and helicop-
into a British Army training ters, were destroyed and
camp on the same day one damaged in the hours-
al-Shabab extremists at- long assault at the airfield in
tacked a military base and coastal Lamu county, the
killed three U.S. military per- U.S. Africa Command told
sonnel. the AP.
An internal police report The U.S. military later said its
seen by The Associated East Africa Response Force
Press says the three men had arrived to increase se-
were arrested Sunday af- curity there. It did not say
ter trying to enter the Brit- how many troops were in-
ish Army Training Unit in volved.
Laikipia county. The British Photos shared with the
army said in a statement AP by a security source
that Kenyan police were in- showed the five dead al-
vestigating "suspicious ac- In this photo taken Aug. 26, 2019 and released by the U.S. Air Force, A U.S. Air Force C-130J Super Shabab attackers wearing
tivity" and that "we do not Hercules approaches for landing at Camp Simba, Manda Bay, Kenya. military uniforms. It was not
believe there was a direct Associated Press clear whether the uniforms
threat to UK personnel or were Kenyan or Somali.
assets." U.S. forces inside Kenya. filiate in Chicago reported, killed but their names have Some al-Shabab fighters
Meanwhile new details The attack at Manda Bay citing a family statement. not been released. have worn military uniforms
emerged in the al-Shabab Airfield killed 23-year-old Two other Americans, con- No Kenyans were killed, Ke- in past attacks. The photos
attack, the al-Qaida-linked U.S. Army Specialist Henry tractors with the U.S. De- nya's military spokesman also showed an al-Shabab
group's first assault against Mayfield Jr., the NBC af- partment of Defense, were Paul Njuguna said Monday. flag.q

France enters crucial week of talks with unions on pensions

By SYLVIE CORBET cluding on the financing of SNCF, said train traffic was
Associated Press the retirement system. Ma- improving Monday across
PARIS (AP) — French Presi- cron also said that people the country, with 8 out of 10
dent Emmanuel Macron doing physically demand- high-speed trains running.
says he wants to reach ing or dangerous work Yet the Paris metro was
a "quick compromise" in should be allowed to retire still severely disrupted, with
talks this week with worker early. most of lines open only for a
unions as nationwide pro- "We want to end this crisis limited amount of time and
tests and strikes rage on rapidly," Ndiaye said. several stations closed.
against the government's The government plans to In his televised New Year's
plans to overhaul the pen- formally present the bill address, Macron vowed to
sion system. by the end of the month carry out the overhaul of
During a Cabinet meeting ahead of a debate in par- the pension system.
on Monday, Macron in- liament, so that the law can Macron wants to unify
sisted that the new system be voted on this summer. France's 42 different pen-
must be financially sustain- Finance Minister Bruno Le Commuters exit the Paris subway during the 32th day of trans- sion schemes, some of
able, according to govern- Maire told France Inter ra- port strikes, Sunday, Jan. 5, 2020. which grant early retire-
ment spokeswoman Sibeth dio that "a compromise has Associated Press ment, into a single one.
Ndiaye. never been so close." Plans include raising the eli-
Talks between the prime Yet several unions called hard-left union CGT union pots and refineries later this gibility age for full pensions
minister and worker unions for nationwide protests on also called for workers to week. from 62 to 64, the most criti-
are to resume Tuesday, in- Thursday and Saturday. The disrupt the country's oil de- The national rail company, cized measure. q