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The President of Kenya has announced that the security operation at the hotel in Nairobi stormed by Somalis militants on Tuesday is over, and all the attackers have been eliminated. Uhuru Kenyatta said fourteen people were killed. We are grieving as a country this morning on my heart and that of every Kenyan goes out to the innocent men and women violated by senseless violence. The Somali militant group al-Shabab said it was behind the attack. From Nairobi, here's Andrew Harding.

The sound of gunfire and explosions had continued well into the morning here in Nairobi, a number of ambulances arriving at the scene. Overnight, dozens of civilians were brought out of the upmarket hotel and business park. In all, the Kenyan government says, seven hundred people were rescued. Some have been texting relatives from their hiding places. President Kenyatta concerned about the country's precarious tourism industry, said it was safe for foreigners to visit Kenya, but said the nation remained on the highest alert.

Police in Zimbabwe have arrested the prominent activist Evan Mawarire. He was taken from his home in the capital Harare after calling for a stay-at-home protest against the government. Many shops and schools are closed on the third day of protests sparked by a steep rise in fuel costs and general economic disenchantment. Mobile phone networks and the internet remain blocked. Rampant inflation and dollar shortages have led Zimbabweans to accuse President Emmerson Mnangagwa of failing to live up to pre-election pledges to kick start economic growth. The country's largest operator said he had had no option but to comply with government orders to shut down its services.

Australian police say they have busted a drug ring which allegedly used a flight attendant to smuggle at least fourteen million dollars' worth of drugs from Malaysia. Eight people were arrested in Melbourne last week, including one employee from the Malaysia airline Melindo Air. An assistant commissioner with Australia's Victoria Police Tess Walsh gave details of the investigation.

This was a complex, five-month operation targeting an alleged Vietnamese organized crime syndicate based in Melbourne. The syndicate was highly organized and had been operating in Australia for quite some years.

The Indian government says a record number of Muslim women have applied to go to Mecca this year to perform the annual hatch pilgrimage without being accompanied by a male guardian. The Minority Affairs Minister said over two thousand three hundred women will travel independently to Saudi Arabia this year. India, home to the world's third largest Muslim population, started allowing women to go to Mecca without a male guardian last year.

BBC News.