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BBC News
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The leader of the military wing of an Islamist insurgent organisation in Somalia has been killed in an overnight air strike.
Aden Hashi Ayro, al-Shabab's military commander, died when his home in the central town of Dusamareb was bombed.
Ten other p..
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BBC News
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Colombian police say they have killed one of the country's most notorious criminals and drug lords.
Media reports say the dead man is Victor Manuel Mejia Munera, although officials earlier said it was his brother, Miguel Angel.
Defence Minister Juan..
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SF Gate
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The British military says an airstrike in Basra has killed four gunmen armed with rocket propelled grenades.
British spokesman Maj. Tom Holloway says the group was attacked just after midnight by a warplane. He says four gunmen died when their vehicle..
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CNN
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Bombings Tuesday killed at least 48 people in Baghdad and in two major provincial capitals in Iraq. The deadliest attack happened in the Diyala province capital of Baquba when a car bomb detonated outside a crowded restaurant, killing 40 people and woundi..
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CNN
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At least 11 members of a Kenyan gang were killed Monday in a confrontation with police following protests in the capital city of Nairobi and other parts of the country, local media reported. The Mungiki gang set up roadblocks and burned cars to protest th..
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SF Gate
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Iraqi security forces say a large explosion demolished a building in the southern city of Basra. At least three militants were killed and four were wounded.
British military spokesman Maj. Tom Holloway says it's not clear what caused Monday's blast but..
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BBC News
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A suicide bomber has attacked a Nato military convoy in southern Afghanistan, killing three Nato soldiers, two of them Danish.
Police say a number of Afghan civilians were injured when the bomb went off near the convoy in Helmand province.
Earlier r..
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MSNBC
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Eight soldiers were killed in a pair of bomb attacks on Monday, the heaviest single day of U.S. casualties since September.
Three of those soldiers died in a roadside bombing in Diyala, a violent province where al-Qaida in Iraq has been active. The fiv..
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CNN
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At least 23 people were killed and 171 others were wounded Tuesday in three suicide bombings in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore, police have said, as the country's new parliament prepares to be sworn in. Two of the attacks targeted an office of the F..
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CNN
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Two suicide bombings killed five people on Monday in Diyala province -- the volatile Iraq province that has been a major battleground in the war, police said.
In the first attack, an 18-year-old woman blew herself up about 8 a.m. outside the home of a..
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MSNBC
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The U.S. military said Monday that it had accidentally killed nine Iraqi civilians during an operation targeting al-Qaida in Iraq -- the deadliest known case of mistaken identity in recent months.
The civilians were killed Saturday near Iskandariyah, 3..
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BBC News
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The deputy governor of Afghanistan's Helmand province has been killed in a bomb attack on a mosque, officials say.
Deputy governor Haji Pir Mohammed was one of seven people - including the bomber - killed in the explosion at the start of afternoon pray..
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CNN
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Suicide bombers killed seven people, including a leading provincial official, in two attacks in and near mosques in Afghanistan on Thursday. Many more were also injured in the bombings in a restive southern provincial seat and the capital of Kabul.
Pol..
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BBC News
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At least 30 people have been killed in a weekend of continuing post-election violence in Kenya, reports say.
In the worst incident 22 people in a Rift Valley camp for displaced people reportedly died after being attacked by mobs armed with machetes and..
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CNN
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A former Bosnian Serb general was convicted Wednesday of orchestrating months of deadly shelling and sniping of civilians during the notorious siege of Sarajevo and sentenced to 33 years imprisonment. Troops commanded by Gen. Dragomir Milosevic killed Sar..
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SF Gate
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About the same time he was being praised by U.S. commanders Sunday for his role in improving security in Babil province south of Baghdad, a popular police chief was killed by a roadside bomb that struck his convoy.
Major Gen. Qais al-Maamouri died alon..
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BBC News
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Three car bombs in Iraqi cities have killed at least eight people, including one in Mosul soon after the US defence secretary arrived on a visit.
Robert Gates was in the northern city to see for himself "the considerable progress" made in reducing viol..
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MSNBC
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The killing of the 11 family members did not take place and that is totally confirmed,” he said.
An American military spokesman said the United States was aware of the report about Tuesday’s shooting but had no immediate details. A manager at Rashe..
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New York Times
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Federal agents investigating the Sept. 16 episode in which Blackwater security personnel shot and killed 17 Iraqi civilians have found that at least 14 of the shootings were unjustified and violated deadly-force rules in effect for security contractors in..
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New York Times
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BAGHDAD, Nov. 11 — An Iraqi taxi driver was shot and killed on Saturday by a guard with DynCorp International, a private security company hired to protect American diplomats here, when a DynCorp convoy rolled past a knot of traffic on an exit ramp in Ba..
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