Radio station manager killed in Somalia
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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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Somalia's first president following independence, Aden Abdulle Osman, dies in a Kenyan hospital.
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Somalia's presidential spokesman was shot twice at close range in the latest assassination attempt on government officials in the Horn of Africa nation, officials said on Tuesday.
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A senior Taliban military leader has been killed in southern Uruzgan province, Afghan top security official confirmed Sunday. &quot;Mullah Abdul Ghafar along with his two colleagues
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Islamic militants who closed down a Somali radio station have allowed it back on the air so long as it does not play music or love songs, the station's director said Monday.
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KISMAYO, Somalia  - Islamist gunmen who captured   the Somali port of Kismayo have forcibly closed a private   broadcaster which they accuse of distorting news about protests   against the takeover, journalists said on Friday.
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British officials in Kenya are investigating claims that a Briton was killed in a US attack on suspected Islamic militants in Somalia.
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Unidentified gunmen fatally shot a hard-hitting radio commentator in the southern Philippines on Monday, police and the victim's colleagues said, in the fifth deadly attack on a Philippine journalist this year.
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BAIDOA, Somalia  - A car bomb killed five people   and wounded several others outside parliament in Somalia's   provincial capital Baidao on Monday in an assassination attempt   on President Abdullahi Yusuf.
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The most prominent armed group in oil-rich southern Nigeria said said one of its presumed leaders, extradited last week from Angola, reportedly died from gunshot wounds Tuesday in a Nigerian military hospital.
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Islamic militants controlling much of southern Somalia shut down a radio station Sunday for playing love songs and other music, the latest step to impose strict religious rule which has sparked fears of an emerging, Taliban-style regime.
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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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Gunmen have killed 682 civilians, including a foreign journalist, in executions over the past year in Somalia, a local rights group said Sunday.
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The Islamist group controlling much of southern Somalia closes a radio station for playing love songs.
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At least nine Somalis were killed and dozens wounded when a rocket fired at African Union troops hit a restaurant in an ambush that also slightly injured two of the peacekeepers, officials said on Thursday.
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A Taliban leader has been killed in Afghanistan, the country's government said today, as the deaths of a British soldier and a civilian translator were confirmed after an explosion in the country's south.
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A Somali independent radio station reports coming under sustained gunfire from government troops