Somali's Yusuf escapes violence that kills 11
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BAIDOA, Somalia  - A car bomb killed five people   and wounded several others outside parliament in Somalia's   provincial capital Baidoa on Monday in an assassination attempt   on President Abdullahi Yusuf.
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LUSIGNAN, Guyana, Jan. 26 -- Gunmen stormed into a coastal village and killed 11 people, including five children, in violence blamed on a gang leader who has threatened widespread attacks. The assault sparked angry protests over rising crime in this impoverished country.
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Gunmen fired mortars at the Somali president's house on Sunday, hours after the country's new prime minister arrived in Mogadishu for the first time since he was sworn in last November, a presidential aide said.
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A Hamas member escaped an assassination attempt Monday after a bomb damaged his car in Damascus, in an incident that both Hamas and Syria blamed on Israel.
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At least two people are reportedly killed during fighting in the Somali capital, as peace talks are due to start.
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KISMAYO, Somalia  - Islamist forces with machine   guns mounted on pick-up trucks took over the strategic Somali   port of Kismayo overnight on Monday without firing a shot,   extending their grip on the south, witnesses said.
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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 Somali suspect in the killing of a policewoman in Bradford escaped the country by disguising himself as a Muslim woman wearing a veil, The Times reported.
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At least 10 people are killed in clashes between insurgents and government forces in a suburb of the Somali capital.
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Governor of south-eastern province escapes unhurt but several people are injured in suicide blast.
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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 suicide bomber struck Thursday in the middle of a crowd awaiting a visit by Algeria's president, killing 11 people and wounding at least 37, security officials said.
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possibly caused by grenades, were an assassination attempt on her. She escaped with minor injuries. The attack was the latest in a series in impoverished Bangladesh and the second deadly blast this month against the Awami League.
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Nairobi: Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed won Somalia&#39;s presidential vote, an election official announced at a ballot designed to install the anarchic Horn of Africa&#39;s country&#39;s first recognised central government since 1991.
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Somalia's interim government increases security around its base after an attempt to kill President Yusuf.
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Fighting killed at least four people in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Sunday as Islamist-led rebels attacked government troops and their Ethiopian allies.
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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.