In Somalia, Rare Suicide Attack Kills 5
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MOGADISHU, Somalia, Nov. 30 -- Three bombers exploded cars outside the base of Somalia's interim government Thursday, killing themselves and five other people, officials said. The government blamed foreign al-Qaeda fighters for the attack, which was believed to be only the second suicide bombing...
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Five mortar bombs exploded in northern Mogadishu on Monday, killing at least three people, wounding several others and flattening homes in the Somali capital's latest outbreak of post-war violence, witnesses said.
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A suicide bomber blew himself up in a crowded mosque in Afghanistan's southern Helmand province on Thursday, killing its deputy governor and five other people, officials said.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan  - A suicide attack killed at least two people in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, police said, in the latest incident in the bloodiest year since the Taliban's ouster five years ago.
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TANI, Afghanistan -- A suicide bomber struck Monday at a funeral for a provincial governor assassinated by the Taliban a day earlier, and four senior members of the government at the service escaped unhurt, officials and witnesses said. Five people were killed and at least 30 wounded.
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A grenade attack killed four people and wounded six others watching a foreign film in the western town of Baidoa in the latest flare-up in chaotic Somalia, residents said on Friday.
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A suicide bomber in a car killed seven people near the home of Somali Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi in the capital Mogadishu on Sunday, but he was unhurt, security sources and witnesses said.
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A suspected bomb blast near a busy Mogadishu market on Tuesday killed five women, the latest victims of Somalia's unceasing violence that has killed more bystanders than combatants.
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At least five people are killed in a suspected suicide attack on the main railway station in Sri Lanka's capital Colombo.
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Almost every day, Somalia's government comes under attack &#151; suicide bombings, roadside explosions, ambushes. Security forces have tried mass arrests and curfews, but to no avail.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan  - A suicide car attack killed at least five people in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, police and a hospital doctor said, the latest deaths in the bloodiest year since the Taliban was overthrown in 2001.
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Three suicide car bombs exploded outside Somalia's government base of Baidoa, killing at least six people, including the drivers, a senior official said Thursday.
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Five Ethiopian soldiers wounded in an attack on a truck in central Somalia have returned to their camp, the foreign ministry said Thursday, in a rare admission of Ethiopian casualties in Somalia.
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A suicide blast killed at least eight people near the Somali government seat of Baidoa on Thursday in an attack the administration blamed on Islamists backed by al Qaeda.
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A suspected suicide car bomb killed  at least four people near the Somali government seat of Baidoa  on Thursday, witnesses said, pushing up tensions in the chaotic  Horn of Africa nation some fear is sliding to war.
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Insurgents trying to attack African Union peacekeepers hit a restaurant in Somalia's capital Mogadishu with a rocket-propelled grenade, killing at least 11 people, residents said on Thursday.
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Attackers fired a rocket-propelled grenade at a pickup truck in Mogadishu on Thursday, wounding four people, in a reminder of the challenges facing the interim government trying to rule lawless Somalia.