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Somali troops enter Mogadishu to cheers
Dec 28 2006 9:46PM (CT)
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - Jubilant Somalis cheered as troops of the U.N.-backed interim government rolled into Mogadishu unopposed Thursday, putting an end to six months of domination of the capital by a radical Islamic movement.
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Somalia allows U.N. humanitarian flights
Dec 28 2006 7:40PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Shortly after wresting control of Somalia's capital from Islamic militants, the U.N.-backed transitional government Thursday approved the immediate resumption of humanitarian flights.
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Boats with Somalis, Ethiopians capsize
Dec 28 2006 1:04PM (CT)
GENEVA (AP) - Two boats filled with Somalis and Ethiopians capsized off the coast of Yemen after Yemeni patrol boats chased one of them and fired on two other vessels. At least 17 people drowned and some 140 were missing, the U.N. refugee agency said Thursday.
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Red Cross: No 2nd pipeline blast
Dec 28 2006 8:34AM (CT)
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) - The Red Cross said Thursday that a government official's report of a second pipeline explosion in a poor Lagos neighborhood was mistaken.
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