Armed men capture DR Congo town
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A mysterious group takes a mining town  in the south of the DR Congo, as the president embarks on his first trip to the volatile east.
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Saudi security forces captured two wanted militants after a gun battle in the Red Sea city of Jeddah, security sources said Wednesday.
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Tuareg rebels attack a town in Niger, killing or abducting several people in the biggest raid in recent months.
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Rebels said Monday they have captured another town near Central African Republic's restive Chad-Sudan borderlands and that their forces are aiming for the country's southern capital. Government officials only confirmed there was fighting.
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Rebel groups in eastern DR Congo agree to disarm, a move which could bring peace nearer in the troubled region.
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KANYABAYONGA, Congo  - Rebel soldiers confronting  army loyalists near this deserted Congolese farming town  declared victory on Friday after clashes that stirred fears of  fresh violence in turbulent central Africa.
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eastern town of Goma before the 11,000-strong UN force in Congo sent up a helicopter to have a look. &quot;We flew over the area and the situation was calm.
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Four Islamist militants involved in a siege at a Palestinian refugee camp have been captured, Lebanon's army says.
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An armed gang who fled with hostages after freeing 30 people held at a bank in Venezuela are captured.
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Fierce fighting Saturday in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo among local militias, the army and rebels loyal to a renegade general forced thousands to flee, the UN and Congolese army said.
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A town in the mineral rich Katanga region of the Democratic Republic of Congo has fallen to a mysterious group of militants. Going by the name of the Liberation Movement for
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KINSHASA, Congo  - Militiamen armed with guns and machetes killed 16 people and kidnapped at least 34 girls in attacks this week on a remote area of eastern Congo, a UN spokesman said Saturday.
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Fourteen die in a gunfight between a militia and the army in Ituri in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Chadian rebels are pushed back from the capital N'Djamena, which they had seized over the weekend.
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Saudi security forces captured two  wanted militants after a gun battle in the Red Sea city of  Jeddah, security sources said Wednesday.
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KHARTOUM, Sudan, Dec. 10 -- Militiamen on horseback ambushed a refugee convoy in western Darfur, killing about 30 civilians, and African Union peacekeepers investigating the attack were taken hostage by rioters, the A.U. and the United Nations said Sunday.
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DR Congo gives a pro-government militia 48 hours to disarm, as a humanitarian crisis deepens.