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Sheikh Sharif Ahmed, the chairman of Somalia's Islamic Court's Union (ICU), has called for the deployment of international peacekeeping forces to stabilise his country.
30/11/2008
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The siege at Mumbai's Taj Mahal hotel is over after security forces killed the remaining armed men inside the building.
29/11/2008
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At least four people have been killed and more than 71,000 others displaced by floods caused by heavy rains in northern Sri Lanka, an official said.
29/11/2008
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Mikheil Saakashvili, Georgia's president, has defended his country's military assault on breakaway South Ossetia in August, saying Russian forces had invaded Georgia and its citizens were in danger.
29/11/2008
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Indian commandos have ended the siege at a Jewish centre in Mumbai, while fighting raged at a hotel in the city two days after the Indian commercial capital came under co-ordinated attacks.
28/11/2008
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Somali pirates demanding millions of dollars for the return of a Saudi oil tanker they seized on November 11 say they are open to "honest" negotiations.
26/11/2008
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Tamil Tiger rebels are retreating from Kilinochchi, their political headquarters in northern Sri Lanka, a senior official has said.
26/11/2008
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Scientists have been combing the prairies for fragments of a 10-tonne meteor that burned across the sky on November 20 over western Canada.
26/11/2008
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An influential Malaysian royal has stepped into a controversy involving a religious edict by the country's top Islamic body banning Muslims from practising yoga, a form of exercise rooted in Hinduism.
25/11/2008
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Kgalema Motlanthe, South Africa's president, has warned that neighbouring Zimbabwe could "implode and collapse" within months unless a unity government is formed.
25/11/2008
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Pirates in control of a Saudi oil tanker anchored off the Somali town of Haradheere have said that they will fight against any military attempt to free the vessel.
22/11/2008
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Somali fighters opposed to the country's interim government have entered the port town of Haradheere in a search for the pirates who seized a Saudi Arabian-owned oil tanker, a local elder has said.
21/11/2008
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The Sri Lankan military says it has overrun a strategically important Tamil Tiger defensive line in the north of the country.
20/11/2008
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Somali pirates who hijacked the Sirius Star, a Saudi-owned supertanker, are demanding $25m for the ship's return, according to Mohamed Said, one of the pirates.
20/11/2008
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Somali pirates have now seized three ships off the coast of the Horn of Africa since hijacking their largest target ever, the Sirius Star carrying $100m worth of oil.
19/11/2008
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