Somali leader barely escapes deadly blast
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MOGADISHU, Somalia -- The transitional president of Somalia narrowly escaped assassination yesterday when a car bomb exploded as he left a converted grain silo that serves as the nation's makeshift Parliament.
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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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A roadside bomb wounded at least 12 Somali soldiers in Baidoa and two people were killed in violence in Mogadishu on Saturday.
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A senior Hamas leader has survived an Israeli assassination attempt in the Gaza Strip, but at least five other Palestinians were killed in the explosion that tore through his home.
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Four people including two foreign aid workers have been killed in a blast in southern Somalia, reports say.
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A senior Hamas leader has survived an Israeli assassination attempt but at least five other Palestinians have been killed in the night-time explosion at his Gaza home.
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KISMAYU, Somalia  - A roadside bomb killed two Somalis and two foreign aid workers working for the Dutch arm of Medecins Sans Frontieres near the southern Somali port of Kismayu on Monday, witnesses said.
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Insurgents fire mortars at the Somali president's residence, a few hours after his arrival in the capital.
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A senior Hamas leader survived an Israeli  assassination attempt in the Gaza Strip Wednesday but at least  five other Palestinians were killed in the explosion that tore  through his home.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai's running  mate for Saturday's historic presidential poll escaped unhurt  on Wednesday when a bomb set off by Taliban guerrillas narrowly  missed his car as he headed for an election meeting.
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MOGADISHU, Somalia -- Somali Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi accused Al Qaeda of being behind a suicide bombing that killed seven people outside his home in Mogadishu yesterday and said its militants had to be eliminated.
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A suspected suicide car bomb killed at least four people near the Somali government seat of Baidoa on Thursday, witnesses said, pushing up tensions in the chaotic Horn of Africa nation some fear is sliding to war.
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Few people noticed when a security detail ushered the president of Somalia from his three-ton armored vehicle to an ordinary car. The simple, routine security measure saved his life.
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GAZA CITYA senior Hamas leader survived an Israeli assassination attempt early today but at least five other Palestinians were killed in the explosion that tore through his Gaza home.
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A cholera outbreak in Somalia has killed more than 115 people and hospitalized 724 in towns where people were forced to use contaminated water from a flooded river, doctors said Wednesday. More violence hit the capital, a day after the president ruled out talks with a moderate leader of Somalia's ousted Islamic movement, a setback for efforts to hold broad reconciliation talks in the war-torn country.
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Four mortar explosions rocked the Somali capital Friday, wounding six people &#151; including two children &#151; a day after an advance team of African peacekeepers arrived in the country, witnesses said.
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A suicide bomber killed seven people outside the Somali prime minister's home in Mogadishu on Sunday, just hours after an official said Western jihadists were among the dead from U.S. strikes in the north.