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German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier dismissed on Sunday calls from the radical Left party to invite Russian President Vladimir Putin to this year's summit of the Group of Seven industrial powers.

Kenya has given the United Nations three months to remove a camp housing more than half a million Somali refugees, as part of a get-tough response to the killing of 148 people by Somali gunmen at a Kenyan university.

The final stage of Nigeria's election began on Saturday with voting for powerful state governors, two weeks after a presidential vote paved the way for the country's first democratic transfer of the top job.