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PARAMARIBO — Suriname's President Ronald Venetiaan said Saturday that the United States is proposing to build a facility in the South American country to test the performance of U.S. military vehicles in dense jungle.

Venetiaan said his administration has previously discussed the facility with U.S. military leaders.

Venetiaan was not more specific about the U.S. military site or when it could feasibly be built in the Dutch-speaking nation on the north shoulder of South America.

NAIROBI — A ruling party candidate for parliament was arrested Saturday after his bodyguards allegedly shot and killed a supporter of Kenya's largest opposition party and injured two others, police said.

The shootings in western Kenya came as tens of thousands of people rallied in the capital to kick off the presidential campaign of Raila Odinga, who has mounted a serious challenge to President Mwai Kibaki in December general elections.

Stanley Livindo — a ruling party politician seeking the parliamentary seat now held by Odinga — was arrested along with two of his bodyguards in connection with the shootings, police said.

The shootings occurred during an altercation while Livindo was campaigning in western Kenya, national police spokes-man Eric Kiraithe said.

RIYADH — The Saudi Arabian government will temporarily release 55 prisoners recently transferred from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and will give each of them about $2,600 to celebrate the upcoming Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr, a newspaper reported Saturday.

Saudi Interior Minister Prince Nayef bin Abdul Aziz granted the temporary releases from detention centers in Saudi Arabia so the prisoners could spend time with their families during the holiday in mid-October, the Okaz newspaper reported.

They will return to police custody after the holiday and will be referred to Saudi courts at end of this month for upcoming trials, the paper said.

LONDON — The $40,000 Stirling Prize, Britain's most prestigious architecture award, was given Saturday to Germany's Museum of Modern Literature, a classically influenced building of concrete, stone and wood.

Designed by David Chipperfield Architects, the museum opened last year in Marbach, Germany.

It houses Friedrich Nietzsche's death mask and original manuscripts including Franz Kafka's "The Trial" and Alfred Doblin's "Berlin Alexanderplatz."