Somalia AU plane 'catches fire'
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A cargo plane transporting Ugandan soldiers to Somalia's capital caught fire as it landed, officials say.
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Somali's main market suffers a deadly bombing hours after the government warns of a new Islamist offensive.
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NAIROBI, Kenya - An explosion at an airport in Kenyaâs capital Sunday slightly injured two people and caused a fire that destroyed part of a departure lounge, police said.
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FIGHTING raged on in the western Sudanese region of Darfur today, with an African Union helicopter fired on despite promises by both the Government and rebels to respect a ceasefire, an AU spokesman said.
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By Paul OâHare and Victoria Mitchell, Scottish Press Association. The RAF and the Royal Navy were tonight involved in a rescue operation in the Atlantic after a fire broke out on a Canadian submarine.
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LAS PALMAS, Spain  - Spanish emergency services said several people had been wounded by gunfire in the hijacking of an Air Mauritania plane on Thursday.
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The Ugandan vanguard of an African peacekeeping force intended to help Somalia's interim government tighten its tenuous grip on the anarchic nation flew into the country on Thursday, witnesses said.
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Gunmen fired rockets near Mogadishu's airport on Wednesday, witnesses said, apparently heeding an Islamist call to fight African Union peacekeepers arriving to help the interim government restore order.
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Somalia's interim President Abdullahi Yusuf collapses and is flown to Ethiopia for treatment.
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The first African Union peacekeepers  arrived in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Tuesday aboard a  cargo plane, the AU said.
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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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An Air Mauritania Boeing 737 passenger plane on an internal flight from the capital Nouakchott to the northern port of Nouadhibou was hijacked on Thursday to Western Sahara, Mauritanian police said.
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At least three people were killed when a firefight erupted between unidentified insurgents and Ethiopian troops near a military base in the Somali capital Tuesday hours after the arrival of African Union peacekeepers, witnesses said.
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Shots were fired after President Gen. Pervez Musharraf's plane took off from a military base on Friday in what one official described as a failed assassination attempt.
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Insurgents launched mortars at the airport as an African Union team left Somalia Wednesday, killing a 13-year-old boy and wounding three others, witnesses said.
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An African Union military delegation has arrived in Somalia for a three-day mission to assess security before the planned deployment of a peacekeeping force, an official said Sunday.
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At least three people die after Somali security forces open fire at a crowd demanding food aid, say witnesses.