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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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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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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The arrival of Ugandan peacekeepers in Mogadishu on Tuesday was marked by some of the heaviest fighting in weeks, highlighting the huge task facing the African Union force in Somalia.
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Series of clashes break out on land and sea in the war-torn north
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Hundreds of marines sailed Tuesday to reinforce troops in the southern Philippines following fighting with followers of a jailed Muslim leader that killed at least 17 soldiers and as many as 30 rebels, officials said.
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Hundreds of Ethiopian troops arrived to protect Somalia's government Friday as witnesses said a powerful Islamic militia massed nearby, raising concerns of clashes between the two forces.
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Three planeloads of Australian troops are heading for Solomon Islands, in a show of force directed at rebels around the capital Honiara.
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More than 160,000 people fled to high ground or crowded into schools and town halls as yet another powerful typhoon battered the eastern Philippines today, where 1,000 are dead or missing from an earlier storm.
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Crack Australian troops landed in East Timor as new fighting between the military and rebel soldiers forced thousands to flee the worst violence since independence four years ago.
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Australian troops, backed by tanks, helicopters and airplanes, have stormed the East Timor town where a rebel leader is holed up, entering his stronghold, a witness said on Sunday.
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Fighting and looting erupted in East Timor&#039;s capital on Tuesday as its leaders held urgent meetings to find a way out of the worst crisis in the young nation&#039;s seven-year history.
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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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Unprecedented numbers joined the protests today, intensifying a confrontation with the ruling junta.
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Fresh fighting broke out between troops  and Muslim rebels on the remote southern island of Jolo on  Sunday, the seventh day of a military offensive against  militants who have vowed to fight to the last man.
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Thousands of police patrolled a tense town today after street fights between members of the country&#39;s main ethnic group and a Muslim minority left seven people dead and 42 injured.
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Ethiopian and Somali troops battle Islamist insurgents in Somalia's capital Mogadishu for a second day.