Blast rocks Somalia's parliament
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There has been a large explosion outside the building housing Somalia's interim parliament, with casualties reported.
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The Nairobi residence of the newly elected Somali president is reportedly attacked by unknown gunmen.
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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 group of Somali lawmakers met powerful Islamists in their Mogadishu stronghold after leaving the temporary capital because of growing security fears since last month's assassination attempt on the president.
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Five children playing with a landmine in Somalia's capital are killed when it explodes, witnesses say.
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At least eight people were killed during a mortar bomb attack on Somalia's presidential palace, hospital officials said on Wednesday.
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At least one car bomb explodes in Baidoa, where Somalia's fragile interim government is based.
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A car exploded in Mogadishu on Sunday killing its four occupants and assailants shot dead a Somali government soldier, witnesses said, in the latest violence in the chaotic city hit by near-daily attacks.
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An explosion on Tuesday hit the convoy of Sri Lanka's Nation Building Minister, D.M. Dassanayake, wounding him on the road between the capital, Colombo, and the international airport.
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The United States Monday welcomed the formation of a transitional parliament in Somalia, an African nation beset with ethnic violence and factional fighting.
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Two explosions rocked the Somali town of Baidoa on Monday, killing four people and wounding six in the only town controlled by the country's virtually powerless government, witnesses and officials said.
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A loud explosion rocks Sri Lankan capital, Colombo - and one report says the defence secretary has been hurt.
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KISMAYU, Somalia  - An explosion tore through a ceremony in Somalia on Sunday welcoming senior security officials to a southern port, wounding at least 20 people including a top police chief, witnesses said.
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BAIDOA, Somalia  - Somalian President Abdullahi   Yusuf escaped a bomb on Monday that killed five people and   wounded several others outside parliament in the provincial   capital Baidoa.
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Residents of Mogadishu welcomed the news on Monday that a new Somali parliament had begun work in neighbouring Kenya, expressing hope that the chaotic Horn of Africa country
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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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A suicide car bomber attacks the home of Somali Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Ghedi, though he is not harmed.