Blow to Somalia peace force
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Malawi denies agreeing to send troops to Somalia, in a fresh blow for the planned AU peacekeeping force.
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Somalia's weak interim president rules out any further peace talks with the powerful Islamist group.
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Mortar bombs fired by suspected Islamist insurgents missed the venue of a major reconciliation meeting in Somalia but killed six civilians including at least five children, residents said on Thursday.
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The UN Security Council approves the deployment of an African peacekeeping force to tackle unrest in Somalia.
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Hamas fighters took over the headquarters of the Preventive Security Service in Gaza City today, dealing a blow to President Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah.
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BAIDOA, Somalia  - Somalia's prime minister, Ali Mohamed Gedi, resigned on Monday after a long feud with the president that frustrated Western backers and split the government while it faced an Islamist insurgency.
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The United States must move urgently to help deploy more international peacekeeping troops to Somalia, where a U.N.-supported government is under attack from radical Islamic insurgents, the government's prime minister said  yesterday.
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Both sides in the Somali conflict play down the significance of a deadline by Islamists for an attack.
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Palestinian officials have disbanded a Gaza security force feared by civilians and under fire by human rights groups in one of the first concrete steps toward security reform in months, says a security official.
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Uganda's parliament voted on Tuesday to send peacekeeping troops to Somalia to help stem an unrelenting wave of hit and run attacks by insurgents on the interim government in Mogadishu.
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Islamists and opposition leaders join forces as they vow to remove Somalia's transitional government.
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia -- War or no war with Somalia, Mulunesh Abebayhu wants out. Out of her teaching job, where Ethiopian security forces constantly harass her because of her political views. Out of this city, where hundreds of protesters were killed by police bullets after disputed elections last...
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Declaring that Somalia is at "a critical crossroads," Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi on Thursday urged U.N. peacekeepers to take over from a small African Union force in the country's capital to help restore security and deal with terrorism.
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The U.N. Security Council  authorized an African Union peacekeeping mission for Somalia  for six months on Tuesday as mortar attacks pounded the capital  and the northeast African country spiraled further into chaos.
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia -- An African summit ended today with a proposed peacekeeping force for Somalia still lacking firm commitments for thousands of troops, despite fears that the country could plunge back into anarchy.
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Somalia&#039;s nearly powerless interim government said Friday it would boycott weekend peace talks with the Islamic militia that has seized control of nearly all the nation&#039;s south, accusing the group of civilian massacres and ties to foreign terrorists.
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UNITED NATIONS, Nov. 28 -- The United States has finalized a draft U.N. Security Council resolution that would authorize a force of East African peacekeepers to intervene in Somalia to prevent the overthrow of the country's struggling government at the hands of Islamic militias. But some European...