Somali gunmen attack Ethiopians, kill official
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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 Somali government soldier opened fire on Monday at a crowd clamoring for food aid in Mogadishu and killed at least three people, witnesses said.
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Gunmen threw two grenades at Ethiopian troops guarding a former Islamist base in the latest Iraq-style insurgent attack in the chaotic Somali capital, residents said on Monday.
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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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Gunmen attacked the house of a senior Baquba police official Friday, killing at least 14 people, a Diyala province security official said.
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At least eight civilians are killed after insurgents ambush Ethiopian troops in the Somali capital.
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At least four people die in Somalia's capital in a mortar attack on the presidential palace.
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Attackers targeting Somali police and government soldiers killed at least four people in Mogadishu on Monday, witnesses said, a day after mortar attacks punctuated the opening of a much-delayed peace meeting.
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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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Gunmen shot and killed a Somali radio journalist in the south of the country Friday, a colleague said, in the third violent death of a journalist in two weeks.
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Somalia's interim government increases security around its base after an attempt to kill President Yusuf.
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MOGADISHU, Somalia -- A veiled woman and two other suicide bombers exploded cars outside the base of Somalia's weak government yesterday, killing eight people after Ethiopia took another step toward war with its Islamic rivals in the country.
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Extremists in Somalia threatened to carry out suicide attacks against African Union peacekeepers who are to begin deploying in the coming days, as gunmen fatally shot two local government officials in the capital.
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At least 13 people were killed and 75 wounded in heavy fighting in the Somali capital on Thursday in the latest confrontation between Ethiopian troops and Islamist-led insurgents, witnesses said.
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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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Gunmen have fired mortar shells into the seaport of Somalia's capital Mogadishu, signalling an escalation of attacks in the lawless African nation since a joint Somali-Ethiopian force took control of the city from an Islamist force late last year.
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A Somali port is hit by deadly grenade attacks on Ethiopians believed to be about to risk the crossing to Yemen.