Mogadishu violence kills 6,500 in past year
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Conflict in Somalia killed 6,501 civilians in the capital Mogadishu in 2007 and wounded 8,516 more, a local human rights group said on Monday.
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An explosion killed two people and  wounded six on Thursday in the Somali capital Mogadishu,  diplomats based in neighboring Kenya said, adding they believed  the blast had probably been caused by a bomb.
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Russian forces say they have killed six militants during clashes in the troubled southern republic of Dagestan.
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Mortar attacks in a residential area and on a hotel in the Somali capital killed five people and injured 10 on Saturday, witnesses said, a day after a previously unknown pro-Islamist group warned it would step up violence.
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The total death toll from post-election violence in Kenya has reached 486, more than 100 higher than previous estimates, according to a government committee cited on local media.
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GUWAHATI: In stepped up violence, six people, including two BSF men, were killed and 51 others injured in three blasts triggered by the Ulfa in three districts of Assam since Wednesday night.
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MOGADISHU, Somalia, March 6 -- More than a dozen mortar shells slammed into Mogadishu's airport Tuesday shortly after the first major contingent of Ugandan peacekeepers landed there, and a deadly gun battle ensued as authorities searched nearby houses for suspects.
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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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Mortar bombs struck a refugee camp and residential area in Mogadishu on Thursday, killing one person and wounding at least five in the latest in a string of near-daily attacks in Somalia's capital, residents said.
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The death toll across Haiti from the weekend deluges brought by Tropical Storm Jeanne was at 620, with some 500 of them in Gonaives, but officials said they expected to find more dead.
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A fresh mortar battle between guerrillas and Somali forces killed at least three people in the capital Mogadishu on Monday as the government set up a new rapid reaction force to respond to a wave of attacks.
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A large explosion struck Mogadishu on Monday near the venue where a national reconciliation conference is due to be held next month, witnesses said.
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At least 10 people are killed in the heaviest fighting in the Somali capital Mogadishu this year.
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A grenade was thrown at a Somali government minister's house overnight and mortar bombs hit areas near Mogadishu's port in the latest spate of post-war violence, witnesses said on Tuesday.
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Sporadic gunfire rang out Sunday across Mogadishu, but the Somali capital was relatively calm a day after fierce fighting between Islamic militiamen and their secular rivals.
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Mortar bombs struck a refugee camp and residential area in eastern Mogadishu on Thursday, wounding at least six people in the latest in a string of almost daily attacks in Somalia's capital, residents said.
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Six Islamic militants -- including a British and American -- were killed in northern Somalia over the weekend during joint local and U.S. military attacks targeting militants, a regional official told reporters during a Sunday news conference.