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The Pakistan army says it has retaken a key settlement in the troubled north-west, held by militants for nearly three months.
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Reuters - Tribal fighting killed more than 40 people and displaced thousands of civilians, mostly women and children, in the state of South Darfur in Sudan this month, aid workers and a rights group said.
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The Christian Science Monitor - – Congolese rebels continued their march toward the regional capital of Goma on Tuesday, driving panicky Army soldiers and tens of thousands of displaced civilians out onto the muddy roads ahead of them.
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KIBATI, Congo, Nov. 9 -- Separated by a bushy no man's land of about half a mile, rebels and government soldiers in this simmering part of eastern Congo spent a good part of Sunday bored and drunk. Loitering along the edges of a muddy camp...(more)
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RWINDI, Congo -- Congo's army clashed with rebels in some of the worst fighting in a week despite the rebel leader's promise to support a cease-fire, the United Nations and witnesses said Monday. The two sides battled Sunday night in Rwindi, about 75 miles (125...(more)
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AP - Sri Lankan soldiers captured a town straddling crucial rebel supply routes Monday and crossed a highway that had served as a symbolic barrier between the Tamil Tigers and the advancing troops, the military said.
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AFP - Sudanese police detained more than 60 journalists, herding them into a truck after they protested against draconian censorship outside parliament on Monday, witnesses and reporters said.
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Nine people are killed in a suicide attack in Pakistan's north-western Bajaur tribal region, officials and witnesses say.
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JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia -- A group of Saudi activists is planning the country's first public hunger strike to draw attention to the detention without charge of a dozen political reformists. The participants, who include lawyers, university students and relatives of the detained, could face arrest...(more)
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In its eagerness to reverse the mounting insurgency in Afghanistan, the United States has embarked on a policy course that could shatter our vital strategic partnership with Pakistan. By allowing American combat forces to freely conduct raids into Pakistani territory, a move that President Bush...(more)
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AP - Rebels steadily advanced in eastern Congo on Tuesday, and fleeing government soldiers even fought with their allies as army control in the region broke down, witnesses said.
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AFP - Germany was to extradite to France on Wednesday an old comrade-in-arms of Rwanda's president over an assassination that triggered 1994's genocide, sparking mass anti-European protests in Kigali.
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