Armed men capture DR Congo town
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A mysterious group takes a mining town  in the south of the DR Congo, as the president embarks on his first trip to the volatile east.
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BAGHDAD, March 12 -- The armed men who entered a village in Diyala province Saturday after sunset seized the residents' weapons and made a request that turned out to be an ultimatum.
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Armed men burst into a house in the  upscale Baghdad neighborhood of Mansour on Wednesday and seized  two Lebanese businessmen, police said.
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Four Islamist militants involved in a siege at a Palestinian refugee camp have been captured, Lebanon's army says.
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Congolese soldiers loyal to a renegade general took the eastern town of Sake on Sunday after a brief engagement with U.N. troops and clashes with the army that killed at least five and wounded dozens, U.N. officials said.
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Saudi security forces captured two wanted militants after a gun battle in the Red Sea city of Jeddah, security sources said Wednesday.
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Police have arrested four suspected poachers and recovered a baby mountain gorilla that was stolen from its family in the forests of neighboring Congo, a spokesman said Monday.
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Government soldiers backed by artillery and airpower seized a key rebel enclave in the east Monday, the military said, claiming the first significant territorial change since a cease-fire in the island nation's civil war four years ago.
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Government troops in Central African Republic, backed by French forces, have launched an offensive to retake a northeast town from rebels, and have recaptured its airport, a French military spokesman said on Tuesday.
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Security forces in Somalia are hunting the gang who seized two aid workers, including a female doctor from Spain.
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Two members of the DR Congo security forces are arrested over the killing of a journalist, police say.
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Government troops in Central African  Republic, backed by French forces, have launched an offensive  to retake a northeast town from rebels, and have recaptured its  airport, a French military spokesman said on Tuesday.
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Some 24 people are killed when 300 militiamen attacked a town in north-eastern DR Congo, the UN says.
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N'DJAMENA  - Chadian government forces, backed by   planes and helicopter gunships, have attacked a rebel mountain   stronghold in the east of the country.
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Soldiers of the Uganda People&#39;s Defense Forces (UPDF) have raided rebel Lord&#39;s Resistance Army (LRA) leader Joseph Kony&#39;s hideouts at Pakanyar in southern Sudan, killing 25 rebels and capturing seven others.
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N'DJAMENA  - Chadian troops armed with tanks and rocket launchers protected government buildings in the capital on Monday after a weekend raid on an eastern town stoked fears of a new attack on N'Djamena.
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Government troops in the Central African Republic have recaptured the town of Sam Ouandja on the sixth day of a counter-offensive supported by French troops, leaving rebels with only one major northeastern town.