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U.S. calls for regional Somalia force
Dec 1 2006 8:24PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The United States circulated a U.N. Security Council draft resolution Friday that would authorize a regional force to protect Somalia's weak government and threaten Security Council action against those who block peace efforts and attempt to overthrow it.
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Darfur's violence spreads across borders
Dec 1 2006 4:36PM (CT)
GOZ BEIDA, Chad (AP) - The chief's story is dark and familiar. Attackers on horseback shattered his dawn ritual of tea brewing _ shouting racial venom, killing men, raping women. The survivors fled to a makeshift camp, sheltering from the desert sun under lengths of cloth strung from thorn trees.
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Floods in East Africa said to kill 250
Dec 1 2006 11:39AM (CT)
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - About 250 people have been killed and 100,000 have lost their homes as catastrophic floods ravaged East Africa, aid workers said Friday as rains continued to pound the impoverished region.
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