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Somali police arrest 3 behind assassination plot

BAIDOA, Somalia (AP) — Somali police investigating a car bomb assassination attempt on the president arrested three suspected members of a fundamentalist Islamic group and recovered explosives Thursday, an official said. Baidoa Governor Ahmed Madey Issaq told the Associated Press police in three armoured vehicles raided a house Thursday morning …

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Rice tells Sudan cooperate or expect confrontation

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told Sudan in firm terms on Wednesday it must choose between “cooperation and confrontation” with the rest of the world and accept a UN force for Darfur. Khartoum’s new military offensive in the western region of Darfur makes international pressure all …

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Intelligence report rocks Bush stance

NEW YORK — US spy agencies dropped a political bombshell six weeks before national elections, with the leak Sunday of a classified report concluding that the war in Iraq has spawned a new wave of radicalism and increased the global threat of terrorism.

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US struggles for new Somalia policy

NAIROBI — Anarchic Somalia has confounded US foreign policy once again, leaving Washington struggling to find a coherent approach to a state whose internal turmoil threatens to destabilise the Horn of Africa.

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In Congo, river canoes bring chance to vote

MAITA, Congo (Reuters) – “Vote on Sunday! Vote on Sunday!” men shout at villagers from aboard a 50-foot wooden canoe as it glides along the vast Congo river, packed high with boxes of voting ballots and red plastic tables and chairs.

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Sri Lanka air force bombs rebels over water spat

COLOMBO (Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s air force bombed Tamil Tiger rebel territory in the island’s east for a second day on Thursday amid a spat over water supplies, a military source said, but there were no details on casualties.

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