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An Australian woman has been shot dead in Kenya.  The ABC reports that gunmen, possibly on on motorbikes, opened fire on Gabrielle Maina as she walked down a road in the Nairobi suburb of Karen.  Ms. Maina is originally from New South Wales and has been in Kenya since 2015 working as a teacher.  The motive for the crime is unclear, although a botched robbery appears to be a possibility.

Thousands of people in Mogadishu protested the truck bombing that killed more than 300 people in the Somali capital, many wearing red to symbolize the blood of their murdered countrymen and women.  "Al-Shabab started to kill 10 people, we kept silent, then they killed 20, and next they killed 100," said Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi "Farmajo" Mohamed, "Now, they killed 300 innocent Somali civilians."  This sort of participation in a protest against the terrorist group has not happened in Somalia before, and shows the miscalculation of al Shabaab, which is blamed for the bombing. 

The European Union has firmly ruled out playing any role in Spain's crisis in Catalonia: "There is no room, no space for any kind of mediation or international initiative or action," said European Council President Donald Tusk.  Madrid had earlier moved to invoke Article 155 of the constitution and impose direct rule over the would-be separatist region, because Catalonian leader Carles Puigdemont failed to renounce the 1 October independence vote that the courts have ruled moot.  It's believed the government will first take control of the Catalonian police and regional finances.

White House Chief of Staff John Kelly attacked the US Congresswoman as "selfish" for informing the world about Donald Trump's callous and awkward condolence call to the family of a US Army sergeant killed in action in Africa.  Kelly accused Florida Democratic Representative Frederica Wilson of being "an empty barrel" who "politicized" the call, in which Trump told the 25-year old widow of Sgt. La David Johnson, "He knew what he was signing up for, but I guess it hurts anyway."  That account was relayed by Wilson and confirmed by members of Johnson's family, who added the Trump didn't even refer to the dead soldier by name. 

The problem with Kelly's self-righteous reaction is that it doesn't conform to the facts.  It was Trump who politicized the episode when was asked by a reporter why he had not yet mentioned the four US troops killed in the Niger mission, nor called their families - Trump replied that Presidents often don't make condolence calls and accused his predecessor Barack Obama of not.  Except that Obama had a lengthy, provable record of comforting the families of America's fallen: in person, on the phone, or by letter.  Trump's first mention of the four came only as he threw a twitter pity party for himself, claiming he was being picked on for not making the call.  And when he did, he failed the primary goal of comforting the widow.  John Kelly is a Gold star father himself, having lost a son in Afghanistan.  But Rep. Frederica Wilson wasn't inserting herself in a situation for political gain - she had known Sgt. Johnson for years through a mentoring program.  Kelly also threw himself on the hand-grenade that Trump had pulled the pin from, and claimed he had advised Trump against making condolence calls.

A body has been found in the search for missing Argentine indigenous rights activist Santiago Maldonado, on a riverbed only a few hundred meters from the site of the protest in August where numerous witnesses saw him being arrested by police.  The body had clothing identical to those that Maldonado was wearing when he was last seen.  Police denied detaining him, and the government of President Mauricio Macri has denied a cover-up.  The case raised alarms in Argentina over the return of police violence and forced disappearances similar to those of the fascist junta of the 1970s.  Argentine politicians immediately suspended campaigning while the body was transported to Buenos Aires for identification.

At least one person was killed in a fire that gutted the Kandawgyi Palace, a historic teakwood hotel in Yangon, Myanmar.  A firefighter said it might have started with an electrical short, and spread by gas cylinders.