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Officials: 28 bodies found in Algeria
May 14 2006 6:04PM (CT)
ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) - Security forces found the bodies of 26 people _ most of them children _ in a cave used as a hideout by an Algerian Islamic militant group, security officials said Sunday.
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Rival militias sign cease-fire in Somalia
May 14 2006 4:59PM (CT)
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - Islamic militias and rival secular fighters signed a cease-fire Sunday under pressure from clan leaders _ a deal intended to end eight days of fighting that has killed at least 142 people.
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Coup-prone Comoros holds peaceful vote
May 14 2006 3:30PM (CT)
MORONI, Comoros (AP) - Comorans voted peacefully Sunday in a presidential election they hope will help stabilize the Indian Ocean archipelago after 30 years of coups, assassinations, military rule and attempted secession.
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Militia fighters raid Congo base; 53 dead
May 14 2006 2:48PM (CT)
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) - Hundreds of militiamen carried out a nighttime raid on a Congolese army camp, setting off gunbattles that killed 52 rebel fighters and one soldier, an army spokesman said Sunday.
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165 bodies found after Nigerian blast
May 14 2006 11:38AM (CT)
ILADO, Nigeria (AP) - Workers have buried at least 165 people killed in a pipeline explosion, and four bodies were still floating Sunday in tidal mangrove swamps a few miles from the blast site in southern Nigeria, officials said.
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