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Ethiopian jets bomb airports in Somalia
Dec 25 2006 8:07PM (CT)
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - Ethiopian jets bombed Somalia's two main airports Monday while ground troops captured three villages and a strategic border town, lending Somalia's internationally backed government crucial military aid in its struggle against a powerful Islamic militia.
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Turkmenistan's new leader little-known
Dec 25 2006 1:03PM (CT)
ALMATY, Kazakhstan (AP) - As health minister of Turkmenistan, he presided over a medical system regarded as one of the world's worst. Now Gurbanguli Berdymukhamedov is suddenly head of the country.
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African states work to share Nile water
Dec 25 2006 11:34AM (CT)
ENTEBBE, Uganda (AP) - After three years of closed-door talks, nine nations are quietly edging toward a deal to jointly oversee the waters of the Nile, an agreement that has eluded lands along the great river since the days of the pharaohs.
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