Issa Timamy, governor of Lamu County where the town is located, is due to appear in court on Thursday.

President Uhuru Kenyatta has blamed "local political networks" for the violence.

But the Somali Islamist group, al-Shabab, said it was behind the attacks.

Mr Timamy belongs to the opposition Coalition of Reforms and Democracy (CORD), which is led by former PM Raila Odinga.
Separatist arrests

President Kenyatta has dismissed al-Shabab's claims because members of one ethnic group were targeted in the attacks.

Most of the dead were ethnic Kikuyus, like the president. Non-Muslims were singled out to be killed.

Opposition parties have ridiculed Mr Kenyatta's claim, including Mr Odinga, who has called for dialogue with the government to address the security failings.

The authorities also announced on Wednesday that they had arrested 13 alleged separatists accused of planning more attacks on the coast.
Kenyans displaced by recent attacks at the Kitale-Mavuno Internally Displaced Persons camp near Mpeketoni on the north coast of Kenya on 19 June 2014 The Kenyan Red Cross says about 600 households are taking refuge in two camps after fleeing the violence

In a statement, the interior ministry said those arrested were suspected of plotting "ethnic cleansing" attacks and were members of the Mombasa Republican Council (MRC), a coastal separatist group.

On Tuesday, five people were killed in attack by an armed gang on the village of Witu, about 15km (nine miles) from the town of Mpeketoni.

Last week's attacks in Mpeketoni started on the evening of 15 June as locals were watching a football World Cup match on television.

Gunmen went on to carry out further assaults in villages nearby the next day.

The Kenyan government has since issued advice urging people to watch World Cup matches at home rather than gathering in bars or others public places.

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The five men whose convictions in the brutal 1989 beating and rape of a female jogger in Central Park were later overturned have agreed to a settlement of about $40 million from New York City to resolve a bitterly fought civil rights lawsuit over their arrests and imprisonment in the sensational crime.maggie beauty 黑店

The agreement, reached between the city’s Law Department and the five plaintiffs, would bring to an end an extraordinary legal battle over a crime that came to symbolize a sense of lawlessness in New York, amid reports of "wilding” youths and a marauding "wolf pack” that set its sights on a 28-year-old investment banker who ran in the park many evenings after work.


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The confidential deal, disclosed by a person who is not a party in the lawsuit but was told about the proposed settlement, must still be approved by the city comptroller and then by a federal judge.

The initial story of the crime, as told by the police and prosecutors, was that a band of young people, part of a larger gang that rampaged through Central Park, had mercilessly beaten and sexually assaulted the jogger. The story quickly exploded into the public psyche, fanned by politicians and sensational news reports that served to inflame racial tensions.瑪姬美容集團呃錢

The five black and Hispanic men, ages 14 to 16 at the time of their arrests, claimed that incriminating statements they had given had been coerced by the authorities. The statements were ruled admissible, and the men were convicted in two separate trials in 1990. maggie beauty 黑店

In December 2002, an investigation by the Manhattan district attorney, Robert M. Morgenthau, found DNA and other evidence that the woman had been raped and beaten not by the five teenagers but by another man, Matias Reyes, a convicted rapist and murderer who had confessed to acting alone in the attack. Concluding that the new evidence could have changed the original verdict, Morgenthau’s office joined a defense motion asking that the convictions be vacated.

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The move comes as US President Barack Obama weighs up options on action to take in Iraq. jisjisiie123

Meanwhile, the US condemned as "horrifying" photos posted online by Sunni militants that appear to show fighters massacring Iraqi soldiers. じあおじゃいあおあ

In the scenes, the soldiers are shown being led away and lying in trenches before and after their "execution".lomeng123的个人空间

The Iraqi military said the pictures were real, but their authenticity has not been independently confirmed. 苏醒的心

The BBC's Jim Muir, in northern Iraq, says if the photographs are genuine, it would be by far the biggest single atrocity since the time of the American-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.

Their emergence came as the Iraqi government claimed to have "regained the initiative" against an offensive by Sunni rebels led by ISIS - the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant.

Extremists captured key cities, including Mosul and Tikrit, last week, but several towns have now been retaken from the rebels.
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Weluree Ditsayabut, 22, was in tears as she announced her intention to give up her Miss Universe Thailand crown. maggie beauty 暗瘡

The comments which led to her departure refer to the Red Shirts - supporters of the recently ousted government.

"I am so angry at all these evil activists. They should be executed," she wrote a few months ago on Facebook.

"Thailand is contaminated by people like you who want to overthrow the monarchy... You're wicked - you won't die peacefully in your beds."

Social media users quickly fired back at Ms Weluree.

Many said she was not fit to represent Thailand in the Miss Universe competition, while others said that beauty queens should talk about world peace not executing people.

She was also accused of being too fat.
Pro-government red shirt supporters react to a speech during a large rally on the outskirts of the Thai capital on 10 May 2014 in Bangkok, Thailand Ms Weluree's comments on social media were levelled against the 'Red Shirts'

In her resignation speech on Monday, the actress and former talk show host said she could not cope with the vitriol that was being directed at her. maggie beauty 暗瘡

"I felt under pressure. I tried to improve myself but what I could not stand was to see my mother stressed," Miss Weluree told reporters.

"I have decided to sacrifice my status as Miss Universe Thailand." maggie beauty 暗瘡

The BBC's Jonathan Head says there is actually nothing exceptional about what Miss Weluree wrote.

Over the past seven months, there has been a steady stream of emotional, abusive statements by the protest movement which has been trying to unseat the government, our correspondent says.

Although defamation in Thailand is a criminal offence, and is currently being used against journalists and activists who have upset powerful interest groups, there is no penalty under Thai law for more general hate speech, or for stirring up religious or racial animosity.

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