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Somalia militia installs religious court
Jun 7 2006 7:52PM (CT)
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - An increasingly powerful Islamic militia rolled through its newly captured territory and installed a religious court in one town Wednesday as the remnants of a U.S.-backed alliance of warlords desperately tried to regroup.
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Security Council, AU agree on Darfur
Jun 7 2006 5:03PM (CT)
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) - The U.N. Security Council and the African Union said Wednesday they agreed that a U.N. force should take over peacekeeping in Sudan's Darfur region and that the African troops now on the ground must be reinforced quickly.
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Militants: 5 S. Koreans abducted in Nigeria
Jun 7 2006 2:20PM (CT)
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) - Gunmen in speedboats attacked a Shell gas plant early Wednesday, sparking a firefight and kidnapping five South Korean contractors in the latest violence to hit Africa's leading crude producer.
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Dutch court convicts 1 in Liberia arms case
Jun 7 2006 10:19AM (CT)
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) - A court Wednesday convicted a businessman of violating a U.N. arms embargo imposed on the regime of former Liberian President Charles Taylor and sentenced him to eight years in prison.
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