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Somali insurgents stone woman to death for adultery
Mogadishu - Somali insurgent group al-Shabaab has stoned a 29-year-old married woman to death for adultery, the second such execution this month, officials said. Sheikh Ibrahim Sheikh Abdirahman, an al-Shabaab judge, also ordered the woman's sexual p...
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2009-11-18 ] Category : [
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Somali pirates seize tanker with 28 North Korean crew
London/Nairobi - Somali pirates have captured a tanker carrying 28 North Koreans - but failed in an attack to seize a Ukrainian vessel following a firefight, the European Union's anti- piracy mission off Somalia NAVFOR said Tuesday. NAVFOR said that ...
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2009-11-17 ] Category : [
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1STLEAD:Somali pirates expected to release Spanish ship crew
Madrid - Spain's government Tuesday was expecting the imminent release of the crew of a Spanish fishing vessel held by Somali pirates for 46 days after the shipowner agreed to pay a ransom of 2.3 million euros (4 million dollars), Spanish media repor...
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2009-11-17 ] Category : [
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Rights group blasts closure of Algerian newspaper
Cairo - A regional press freedom group on Monday blasted the closure of an Algerian newspaper following the publication's reporting on alleged corruption in the country. The Cairo-based Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) called the s...
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2009-11-16 ] Category : [
Africa (World) ]
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