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Defense official says U.S. has authority to target terrorists anywhere
WASHINGTON — A senior Pentagon official told a Senate committee Thursday that the U.S. would be at war with Al Qaeda for 15 to 20 more years and said the military could target terrorists anywhere under a law passed after the Sept. 11 terrorist...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Pakistan, U.S. Department of Defense, Yemen, Central Intelligence Agency
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Press Freedom Day: Where reporters and their work are threatened
Friday marks World Press Freedom Day, first declared by the United Nations two decades ago as a day to nurture the freedom of journalists -- or to remind the world of where it falls short. Rights groups pointed to several spots on the globe where...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Benigno Aquino III, Ban Ki-moon, Civil Rights, Justice and Rights
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'The Way of the Knife' exposes America's shadow wars
In October 2002, Barack Obama, then an obscure state senator in Illinois, stood in Federal Plaza in Chicago and gave a speech about Iraq that launched his career toward the White House. "I don't oppose all wars," Obama told the crowd. "What I am opposed...
Tags: U.S. Military, Pakistan, U.S. Department of Defense, Iraq, Book
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U.S. policy seen as factor in Somalia famine deaths
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — It was the catastrophe everyone knew was coming yet no one seemed able to stop. According to analysts, a violent Islamist militia was partly to blame for thousands of deaths in Somalia's food crisis from 2010 to 2012,...
Tags: Mercy Corps, Droughts, United Nations, Natural Disasters, Famines
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Report: Nearly 260,000 died in Somalia food crisis
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- It was the catastrophe everyone knew was coming, yet no-one seemed able to stop. Nearly 260,000 people died in Somalia’s food crisis from 2010 to 2012, double the worst estimates at the time, according to a report...
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Uganda widow wins compensation after fight
KASANA, Uganda — When Joyce Birabwa's husband was killed in a suicide bomb attack in Mogadishu, 1,000 miles away, her whole world fell apart. Left to raise two children alone, Birabwa barely had time to grieve before discovering her in-laws had...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Arts and Culture, African Union, Bombings, Family
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Review: 'Stolen Seas' shows ruthless ways of Somali pirates
The Somali pirates in the documentary "Stolen Seas" brandish bazookas instead of swords and have roughly the same sense of chivalry as the husbands on "The Real Housewives of New Jersey." "There's no such thing as a romantic Somali pirate," says one of...
Tags: Theft, Piracy, Entertainment, Movies
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Gunmen attack Somalia Supreme Court complex killing at least 35
The death toll rose Monday to at least 35 killed in the most serious Islamic extremist attack in years on Mogadishu, a government official said. Islamic radicals from al-Shabab launched a multi-pronged attack against the country's Supreme Court...
Tags: African Union, Armed Conflicts, Explosions, Emergency Incidents, Politics
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Armed men attack Mogadishu courthouse, triggering gun battles
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- Militants attacked Mogadishu’s main courthouse Sunday in one of two attacks in Somalia that were linked to an Al Qaeda-affiliated group. About nine gunmen wearing Somali police uniforms and suicide vests stormed the...
Tags: Armed Conflicts, Al-Qaeda, Mogadishu (Somalia)
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Four Somali nationals convicted in San Diego of terrorist ties
L.A. NOWFour Somali nationals, including an imam at a local mosque, were convicted Friday in San Diego federal court of providing money and other support to a terrorist group in their native country. After a three-week trial, a jury deliberated for...... -
In Somalia, music festival aims to spread peace
MOGADISHU, Somalia — Lihle Muhdin was 11 years old when he first picked up a Kalashnikov rifle, pushed into combat by an Islamist militia in Mogadishu. That was 15 years ago. Now he wields a microphone in his fight for peace. Muhdin is a member of...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Music, Kenya, Philosophy, Wars and Interventions
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Somali pleads guilty to terrorism charges
WASHINGTON — A Somali suspect who was captured at sea two years ago and interrogated aboard a U.S. warship has pleaded guilty to aiding terrorist groups Al Shabaab and Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, federal prosecutors said, a success for the...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, U.S. Military, Trials, Prosecution, Justice System
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