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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Jon Dennis

Newsdesk: Kenyan violence escalates

In Kenya, gangs are killing civilians with machetes, clubs and bows and arrows. The Guardian's east Africa correspondent Xan Rice reports from Nairobi as violence flares again between members of ethnic groups following last month's disputed election.

Legal editor Clare Dyer looks at the failure of new rules designed to allow more women and people from ethnic minorities into the judiciary - which is still, according to a Guardian survey, the preserve of white, privately-educated men.

Barack Obama's campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination received a boost today, winning the support of the influential Senator Edward Kennedy. Jonathan Freedland assesses Obama's chances from his victory party on Saturday in South Carolina. Ewen MacAskill looks at tomorrow's Republican race in Florida, with Rudolph Giuliani staking his entire strategy on winning the state.

Diplomatic editor Julian Borger talks to me from Whitehall as Pakistan's president, Pervez Musharraf, prepares to meet the prime minister, Gordon Brown. Julian also tells me how the candidacy of Lord Ashdown to represent the international community in Afghanistan was withdrawn in the face of opposition from the Afghans.

And education editor Polly Curtis assesses a new qualification - equivalent to an A-level - offered by McDonald's.

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