More troops land in ETimor as battles rage
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Hundreds more international troops landed in East Timor as the poor and tiny nation sought to restore order and avoid slipping into all-out civil war.
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Troop reinforcements and gunboats are sent to a Nigerian oil platform occupied by militants since Sunday.
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Series of clashes break out on land and sea in the war-torn north
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More than 160,000 people were making a desperate rush for safety yesterday afternoon as the eastern Philippines were hit by another powerful typhoon just days after a storm claimed hundreds of lives.
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Nigerian troops battled militia forces Thursday in the creeks and mangrove swamps of Africa's leading oil region, the Niger Delta, pressing an offensive that has forced thousands of villagers to flee their homes for this petroleum hub.
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KINSHASA, Congo - UN peacekeepers deployed an additional brigade in eastern Congo amid reports that Rwanda was threatening rebels based in its huge neighbor, UN officials said yesterday.
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An escalation of ethnic violence is threatening to plunge the country into chaos.
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Six Philippine marines and 8 Muslim   rebels were killed and dozens more were wounded in the heaviest   day of fighting in the latest campaign to flush out Islamic   extremists from a remote southwestern island.
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Fighting erupts between forces of the self-declared Somaliland Republic and those of Puntland, an autonomous region of Somalia, over disputed territory.
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About 500 Ethiopian troops were spotted in Somalia on Wednesday along a main supply route to the government stronghold in Baidoa, as rains and floods stalled a feared march to war in other parts of the country.
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There are greater numbers of Taliban rebels putting up a fight in southern Afghanistan than expected by the newly-deployed British military, a senior commander said.
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Artillery and gun battles broke out in Mogadishu for a second day running on Friday as a Somali government official said Islamist rebels had joined forces with thousands of foreign jihadists.
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Unprecedented numbers joined the protests today, intensifying a confrontation with the ruling junta.
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France sent hundreds more troops to the Ivory Coast commercial capital of Abidjan on Sunday, as government loyalists went on a violent rampage taking aim at the
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Rival gangs armed with machetes and stones fought in East Timor's capital late Thursday, injuring at least 13 people, witnesses and officials said. Hundreds of youths took part in the fighting in front of Guido Valadares Hospital, an Associated Press reporter at the scene said.
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Heavy fighting killed at least six people in Mogadishu on Saturday as Ethiopian troops clashed with Islamist-led insurgents in the worst battles for weeks.
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Some of the heaviest fighting in months hits Somalia's Mogadishu as Ethiopian troops battle local insurgents.