SANAA - Yemen's defence minister, Major General Muhammad Nasir Ahmad, escaped a car bomb attack on his motorcade that killed at least 12 other people, a day after the government said it had killed the regional al-Qaeda branch's number two. Seven security guards and five civilians were killed and 12 others were wounded. Reuters
MOSCOW - A fire swept through an illegal garment factory outside Moscow, killing at least 14 Vietnamese migrant workers, Russian emergency officials said. Firefighters sent to put out the blaze found 14 bodies in the factory in the town of Yegoryevsk, southeast of Moscow, and four victims were hospitalised with burns.
NAIROBI - Fighting between a semi-nomadic tribe of livestock herders and a farming community in southeastern Kenya escalated with 38 people killed, including nine police officers, according to the Red Cross. It said eight children were also among those killed in a dawn attack in which more than 300 people from the Pokomo tribe raided a village of Orma tribe of herders. The raiders torched 167 houses. AP