A Mexican politician has been freed after being held by kidnappers for more than seven months. He's Diego Fernandez de Cevallos, a former presidential candidate. Television images showed him arriving at his home in Mexico City, looking tired but telling reporters he was doing well and had forgiven his captors. It's not clear whether his family paid a ransom for his release. Mr Fernandez de Cevallos' car was found abandoned near his ranch in the central state of Queretaro in May.
Kenyan police say one person was killed and 26 injured in an explosion at a bus depot in central Nairobi. The blast hit a bus about to set off for the Ugandan capital Kampala. Last July, the Somali group al-Shabab said it was behind the blasts in the Ugandan capital which killed more than 70 people. Will Ross reports from the Kenyan capital.
The explosion happened beside a bus which was about to set off for an overnight journey from Nairobi to the Ugandan capital Kampala. Some eyewitnesses report that a bag was about to be loaded on board, but it exploded during a security check. Windows of the red bus were left smashed, and blood could be seen on the ground beside the vehicle. Just hours earlier, Uganda's police chief had warned of possible Christmas-time attacks by Somali insurgents.
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The European security organisation, the OSCE, has said Sunday's presidential election in Belarus was seriously flawed. OSCE observers criticised both the counting of votes and the violent backlash against opposition candidates. President Alexander Lukashenko, who was declared the winner of Sunday's vote by a huge margin, has accused his opponents of criminal behaviour.