Somali presidential spokesman shot
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Somalia's presidential spokesman was shot in the neck while he was stuck in a traffic jam in the latest assassination attempt on a government official in this chaotic nation, authorities said Tuesday.
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The manager of a radio station critical of both the Somali government and the Islamic militants who have been trying to topple it was killed outside his home in the Somali capital, the eighth journalist slain in the country this year.
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A Somali lawmaker was fatally shot outside a mosque Friday, the latest blow to a virtually powerless administration that has watched helplessly as Islamic militants have taken over much of the country.
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A U.S. official was critically wounded in a shooting attack on an embassy vehicle in Khartoum on Tuesday and his Sudanese driver was killed, a Western diplomatic source said.
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A suicide blast killed at least eight people near the Somali government seat of Baidoa on Thursday in an attack the administration blamed on Islamists backed by al Qaeda.
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A U.S. government aid official who was critically wounded in a shooting attack on his vehicle in Khartoum on Tuesday has died, a U.S. embassy official said.
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Gunmen opened fire on former Iraqi governing council president Ahmed Chalabi&#39;s convoy on Wednesday, wounding two of his bodyguards, the politician and his aides said.
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The assassination attempt on Somali   President Abdullahi Yusuf, which killed at least six people on   Monday, bore the hallmarks of an al Qaeda attack, the Somali   foreign minister told Reuters.
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A Pakistani provincial government minister is shot dead as she prepares to address a political meeting.
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A senior official in Iraq's Communications Ministry was shot dead as he was driving to work in Baghdad on Thursday, a source at the ministry said.
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A US embassy official was wounded in a gun attack which killed an embassy driver in the Sudanese capital, the embassy said Tuesday.
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BAIDOA, Somalia  - A car bomb killed five people   and wounded several others outside parliament in Somalia's   provincial capital Baidoa on Monday in an assassination attempt   on President Abdullahi Yusuf.
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Official badly injured and Sudanese driver killed in attack in Khartoum, diplomatic sources say
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At least two people are killed overnight in the Somali capital during surprise attacks on two police stations.
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Unidentified gunmen kill a top women's affairs official in the southern Afghan province of Kandahar, police say.
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CAIRO, Jan. 1 -- Gunmen opened fire on a car carrying a U.S. diplomat in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum early Monday, fatally wounding the American official and his Sudanese driver, the U.S. Embassy there said.
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Gunmen fired mortars at the Somali president's house on Sunday, hours after the country's new prime minister arrived in Mogadishu for the first time since he was sworn in last November, a presidential aide said.