Gunmen slay Somali official, blast kills teen
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Somali gunmen shot dead a senior government official in a troubled Mogadishu district and a teenager died when munitions left behind by African Union peacekeepers exploded, officials said on Tuesday.
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Somali insurgents shot dead a local official on Thursday and attacked Ethiopian troops overnight just hours after a second attempt to start a peace conference was postponed, residents said.
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A grenade tossed into a house killed at least 15 people and wounded 50 others Tuesday in Somalia's northeastern Puntland region, an official said.
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Suspected Islamist militants  attacked the house of a senior government official in a village  in northwestern Pakistan and killed 13 people, police said on  Thursday.
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Gunmen shot dead five people in two separate attacks in the lawless Somali capital in an escalation of killings ahead of the planned deployment of African Union peacekeepers.
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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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Four people including at least two foreign aid workers and a Somali are killed in an explosion in southern Somalia.
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Gunmen shoot and kill a senior official in Iraq's communication ministry on his way to work in Baghdad.
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Somalia's trade minister and former defense minister escaped assassination attempts, which killed two other people, in the latest Iraq-style guerrilla attacks on government targets, witnesses said on Wednesday.
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Two gunmen crashed a girl's 15th birthday party early Sunday morning, shooting two teenagers to death and injuring another in a back yard crowded with revelers, police said. One suspect was in custody.
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A U.S. government aid official was critically wounded in a shooting attack on an embassy vehicle in Khartoum on Tuesday and his Sudanese driver was killed, Western diplomatic sources said.
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Somali police shot and killed two civilians after attackers hurled a hand grenade at a police station, witnesses said. No officers were hurt.
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Somali insurgents assassinated a local official on Thursday and attacked Ethiopian troops overnight just hours after a second attempt to start a peace conference was postponed, residents said.
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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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Somali government troops backed by Ethiopian soldiers shot a man on Friday, wounding him as they cleared a former defense ministry compound in a crackdown on near-daily attacks in Mogadishu, residents said.
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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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Islamic militants fired mortar shells and guns in the Somali capital on Thursday, sparking crossfire with Ethiopian troops and their Somali government allies that killed at least 16 people, witnesses said.