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The next generation of football players, fans and officials have backed today's launch of the website for Bristol's bid for World Cup football in 2018.

Ahmed Abdulle doesn't need July 4 to celebrate living in the United States. He does it, on some level, 365 days a year.

The African Union on Friday refused to act on an international war crimes warrant for Sudan's president, at a summit that also yielded a deal on the powers of a new regional Authority. The refusal to arrest Sudan President Omar al-Beshir granted a ...

When I sleep at night, I think about the life I was in and the life those people are in and are having there,? he said. Abdulle is originally from Somalia. He fled his home country in 1996 because of its violent unrest, spent a decade in a refugee ...

The United States launched a military strike against a town in southern Somalia during the night from Sunday to Monday, targeting, according to the Pentagon a member of Al Qaeda. Local chiefs four reported civilian casualties. An official American ...

CREW members of a Belgian ship hijacked by pirates off Somalia in mid-April will be re-united with their families early next week, Belgium's government crisis centre said.

NEWSWEEK journalist Maziar Bahari and a number of reformist leaders in Iran are to face trial accused of "acting against national security", their lawyer Saleh Nikbakht said.

As U.S. troops prepare for a showdown in Baghdad, the Iraqi conflict could put to the test whether today's strong public support for the war will dwindle if casualties rise beyond expectations.

July 1,2009 (ADDIS ABABA) ? Despite declaration of war by Somalia?s hard-line Islamist insurgent group, Ethiopia on Wednesday said that it won?t re-send its troops to neighboring Somalia for an "empty threat" by jihadists. "Al Shebab has once ...

Rebels in Somalia have vowed to continue attacking African Union peacekeepers, as heavy clashes in the war-torn capital Mogadishu left at least five people dead. Fighting between government troops and al-Shabab fighters has killed more than 20 people ...

A gangland shoot-out caused terror and mayhem when two rival mobs staged a pitched battle in a residential street, a court heard.

YEMENIA is suspending all flights to the Comoros in the aftermath of Tuesday's crash of an Airbus A310 near the islands' capital Moroni in which 153 died, the airline said.

TORRENTIAL rain battering southern China has forced more than 150,000 people from their homes, toppled hundreds of houses and punched a dangerous hole in the spillway of a dam, Xinhua news agency reported.

Blogware Notices July 4, 2009 Why Do States Fail? As we celebrate the founding of our country andour civil rights and liberties this Fourth of July, perhaps we also ought to reflect on why states fail.

Fighting between pro-government forces and Islamist insurgents continued for a third consecutive day in the Somali capital Mogadishu, killing at least two dozen people and wounding scores, Radio Garowe reports.

The African Union on Friday refused to act on an international war crimes warrant for Sudan's president, at a summit that also yielded a deal on the powers of a new regional authority.

A ROADSIDE bomb has ripped through a police vehicle in an insurgent attack in a southern Afghanistan flashpoint, killing seven officers, the interior ministry said.

MICHLE A. FLOURNOY, one of the highest-ranking women in the history of the Pentagon, did not have a childhood that would immediately suggest a future as a defense policy intellectual who is rethinking how America fights its wars.

The UN Security Council is concerned about news reports of missile launch by North Korea and it is troubled by Pyongyang's failure to respect its resolutions on the issue, president of the 15-member body said on Friday. The Council is concerned about ...

SIRTE, Libya: African leaders reached a compromise early Friday on the powers of a new regional Authority that will coordinate key policies but have little power to act without a mandate from member states. In lengthy and often heated talks, Libyan ...

Christian groups working in Mauritania are retrenching following the slaying of an aid worker by an organization reportedly linked to al-Qaida. According to a report from Compass Direct News, a man who had been working in the capital city of ...

An Islamist commander in Somalia has told the BBC there has been an influx of fighters from overseas joining their battle against the interim government.

Extremist rebels in Somalia said Friday they will continue attacking African Union peacekeepers, after fighting this week killed more than 20 people and left hospitals so crowded that patients were being treated in tents.

After all the officials took turns explaining a plan to end a bedbug infestation in a Manchester apartment building where mostly refugees live, Michel Ndayavugwi simply pointed to the young boy dozing in a chair in the back of the room.

Michel Platini has stated that there's something not a oenormala about the spending habits of Real Madrid this season.

The Canadian government is finally following through on its threat to crack down on Roma migrants from the Czech Republic who have been arriving in Canada by the hundreds each month claiming refugee status, the Czech media is reporting.

African heads of state on Friday approved a plan to enhance the powers of the African Union and give it a role in coordinating defence policy and trade negotiations, a participant in the talks said.

Nairobi/Addis Ababa/Kampala - Although some countries within East Africa and the Horn region have scaled up their influenza A contingency plans, overall pandemic preparedness remains "relatively inactive", a UN agency has said, as the first cases were reported in Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda.

Fleeting sightings of the world's rarest antelope, the hirola, in a new safe haven are cases of mistaken identity, a survey has found.

Communiste et Rastignac : a review of Le Monde selon K. by Pierre PA an It is Kouchner, more than anyone, who has eroded the distinction between philanthropy and combat.

Prime minister Costas Karamanlis conferred on Friday with merchant marine minister Anastassis Papaligouras, and later received the presidium of the Union of Greek Shiowners .

Beledweyn ? More Ethiopian troops with armed vehicles have reached near Beledweyn town in central Somalia as Ethiopia said that it does not plan to send troops into Somalia, witnesses told Shabelle radio on Thursday. Residents in El-gal and Ilka ...

As the TFG held a subdued ceremony in Mogadishu on Wednesday to commemorate the 49th anniversary of the independence of the former Italian colony of Somalia (the northwestern British Protectorate of Somaliland had become independent as the State of ...

London, July 02: Somalia remains the world's most dangerous country for minority groups, followed by Iraq, Sudan, Afghanistan and Myanmar, a leading human rights group said. The five were in unchanged positions from last year's Minority Rights Group ...

Despite changes in the US approach to the Muslim world, civilian populations are at greater risk than ever before in countries at the frontline of the war against terrorism, Minority Rights Group International (MRG) says as it launches its annual ...

MOGADISHU, July 2 (Reuters) - Heavy fighting in the Somali capital killed at least 20 people on Thursday, the second day of fierce clashes as government forces tried to drive hardline Islamists out of their Mogadishu bases. Al Qaeda-linked fighters ...

"No matter what has been said, our position is that we are not entering Somalia at this point," government spokesman Bereket Simon said. He nonetheless termed this week's threat by the hard-line Shebab fighters as "an open declaration of war," and ...

A federal grand jury has indicted a group of Somali-Americans on terror-related charges after more than 20 young men from the Minneapolis area were recruited to join an Al Qaeda-linked group in Somalia, according to two law enforcement sources. The ...

The European Union on Wednesday expressed concern over the escalating insecurity in Somalia and called on the Horn of African nation's militia to stop fighting and pursue reconciliation path. Addressing a news conference in Nairobi, Swedish ...

SIRTE, Libya, July 1 (Reuters) - International peacekeepers in Somalia should be given a stronger mandate to allow them to push back the Islamist insurgents who control large swathes of the country, a senior European Union official said on Wednesday ...

The House of Representatives recently approved a $44 billion Homeland Security spending bill that includes funding to beef up security on the high seas, where pirates from Somalia are known to strike, as well as the Internet to prevent malicious ...

Iran's hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is expected in Libya to address an African summit, eclipsing the meeting's agenda despite a slate of conflicts demanding attention. The three-day summit's official aim of helping African farmers has been ...

Japan is dispatching two warships on an anti-piracy mission off the coast of Somalia. Japan plans to send two new warships on an anti-piracy mission off the coast of Somalia to replace two destroyers that have been in the Gulf of Aden since March ...

The president of a semi-autonomous region of northern Somalia is speaking to a crowd of his fellow Somalis in Minneapolis. President Abdirahman Mohamed Farole of Puntland is scheduled to address a Somali Independence Day celebration Tuesday evening ...

The African Union needs to double the size of its peacekeeping force in Somalia, where an Islamist insurgency threatens the internationally backed government, an east African bloc said Tuesday. Leaders of the Inter-Governmental Authority on ...

SIRTE, Libya, June 30 (Xinhua) -- African leaders on Tuesday expressed grave concern about the security situation in Somalia and the threat posed to the transitional federal government and the people of Somalia particularly by the influx of foreign ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia ? A radical Islamic group in Somalia has threatened to seize weapons and ammunition the U.S. has supplied to the nation's embattled government. But Uganda, a key U.S. ally in the region, praised the arms shipment. Both were ...

THE Obama administration?s recent move to increase aid to Somalia takes aim at tackling the insurgents there, pouring resources into a government that analysts say may not be worth salvaging. Resolving the Somalia dilemma demands that the US walk a ...