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April 18, 2012
PILLAGING PIRATES
War planes strike suspected Somali pirate base: coastguard
Mogadishu (AFP) April 17, 2012
War planes fired several missiles at a suspected Somali pirate base in the north of the war-torn country, wounding two civilians, a coastguard official said Tuesday. "Unknown military jets fired several missiles near the village of Gumah, elders told us at least two civilians were injured," said Mohamed Abdirahman, a coastguard. Witnesses said the aircraft struck the north-eastern coastal village, which lies some 220 kilometres (140 miles) east of Bossaso, the main port of Somalia's breakaway Pu ... read more

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AFRICA NEWS

Diarra: launch of NASA scientist into Mali politics
Mali's new prime minister, Cheick Modibo Diarra, is an accomplished astrophysicist who worked on five NASA missions and became a US citizen, but said he never forgot the Malian town of his birth. ... more
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PILLAGING PIRATES

India proposes norms for Indian Ocean anti-piracy patrols
With the Indian Ocean region infested by Somali pirates, India is spearheading an effort to create a naval standard operating procedure (SOP) for the 32 littoral nations of the region to jointly fig ... more
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SHAKE AND BLOW

7.0-magnitude quake hits off Papua New Guinea: USGS
A 7.0-magnitude quake struck off the northeast of Papua New Guinea on Tuesday, the US Geological Survey said, but there was no tsunami warning issued. ... more
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TERROR WARS

4 deny attack plot over Danish cartoons
Danes reacted with anxiety and dismay to this week's opening of a trial of four men charged with plotting to attack a newspaper that published caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed. ... more
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FLORA AND FAUNA

Spain's king, wildlife patron, slammed for hunting
Spain's King Juan Carlos, patron of a wildlife charity, faced fire Monday for making an expensive hunting trip to Botswana while his country struggles with a recession. ... more
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WATER WORLD

South Africa issues shark warning around washed-up whale
South African coastal authorities on Friday warned beachgoers around the tourist town of Knysna that sharks were moving into the area, feeding on the remains of a whale that ran ashore two days ago. ... more
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ENERGY TECH

Sudanese warplanes bomb UN camp in South Sudan
Sudanese warplanes bombed a UN peacekeepers' base, damaging it but causing no casualties in the first such attack since a recent escalation of fighting with South Sudan, officials said Monday. ... more
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Robotic cats, a kitten mummy and a major UK vet gathering
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IRAQ WARS

Electoral officials' arrest inflames Iraq tension
The arrest of Iraqi electoral commission officials has inflamed political tensions here, drawing accusations on Friday that Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki aims to destroy the democratic process. ... more
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AFRICA NEWS

G.Bissau army says coup bid over secret deal with Angola
The Guinea-Bissau army said Friday it launched a coup bid in the notoriously unstable west African state because of an alleged secret military deal signed by the government with Angola. ... more
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Coup attempt in G.Bissau, attack on PM residence
Guinea-Bissau troops staged a coup attempt late Thursday, attacking the prime minister's residence, arresting politicians and taking over the ruling party headquarters amid a media blackout. ... more
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AFRICA NEWS

DR Congo must arrest war crimes suspect: rights group
Congolese President Joseph Kabila's suggestion that he might arrest war crimes suspect Bosco Ntaganda was a positive sign, but the arrest should be carried out immediately, Human Rights Watch said Friday. ... more
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AFRICA NEWS

ECOWAS council asks regional leaders to okay Mali force
The West African bloc ECOWAS has asked regional leaders to approve troops deployment to end the rebellion by separatist groups in northern Mali, it said Saturday. ... more
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EPIDEMICS

Researchers Use Game to Change How Scientists Study Disease Outbreaks
It may seem like a game of tag, but it's an innovative tool for teaching the fundamentals of epidemiology, the science of how infectious diseases move through a population. An international te ... more
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AFRICA NEWS

Nigeria Islamists 'get looted Libyan arms'
Nigeria's Boko Haram Islamist militants appear to be gaining strength and firepower from an alliance with al-Qaida in North Africa amid reports dozen of them are in Mali with Tuareg rebels while weapons looted in Libya have turned up in Nigeria. ... more
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DISASTER MANAGEMENT

Canada's aid overhaul ignores the needy: critics
Canada is radically changing how it doles out foreign aid, funding partnerships with chosen mining giants and development groups while ignoring those most in need, critics say. ... more
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AFRICA NEWS

Foreign 'pressure' will not force Ntaganda arrest: DR Congo
Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila said Wednesday he would not order the arrest of war crimes suspect Bosco Ntaganda "under pressure" from the international community. ... more
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ENERGY TECH

East Africa is world's new energy frontier
Not long ago the ramshackle former Portuguese colony of Mozambique on the east coast of Africa was written off as a basket case. ... more
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South Sudan's Kiir rejects calls to withdraw troops
South Sudan's President Salva Kiir rejected calls Thursday to pull out from contested border regions, but said he did not want war with Khartoum, whose warplanes bombed a Southern town for the first time. ... more
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TERROR WARS

Yemen slides into chaos amid new clashes
Strife-battered Yemen is sliding deeper into chaos amid a power struggle that's ripping the army apart while U.S. Special Forces and the CIA step up their largely secret war against al-Qaida as it battles government forces for control of the south. ... more
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SHAKE AND BLOW

Indonesian quake reawakens 2004 fears in Asia
In nations around the Indian Ocean, thousands scrambled for higher ground Wednesday after powerful quakes triggered fears of a disaster in a region all too familiar with the power of a tsunami. ... more
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ENERGY TECH

Airstrikes, artillery shelling on Sudan-S.Sudan border
Sudan on Tuesday carried out new airstrikes inside South Sudan, as rival armies exchanged artillery fire in the latest round of fierce fighting in contested border regions. ... more
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Forced recruitment on South Sudan's border with rival Sudan
Staring into the distance of South Sudan's volatile and sun-blasted borderlands with foe Sudan, Nyrop Nyol recounts the day soldiers came to her home and took her son away at gunpoint. ... more
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Sudan oil war heats up, north mobilizes
The oil conflict between Sudan and newly independent South Sudan is flaring dangerously after the infant state accused the Khartoum regime of building an illegal pipeline into its oilfield and the north declared a general mobilization. ... more
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CLIMATE SCIENCE

UN calls for funds for drought-hit Sahel
Children's aid organisation UNICEF on Tuesday led a cross-agency appeal for funds for the Sahel region where 15 million are suffering from malnutrition, it said. ... more
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AFRICA NEWS

W. Africa must define scope of Mali intervention
Mali's regional neighbours are wary of sending a military mission to the chaotic nation without a clear mandate, after Islamist extremists and Tuareg rebels seized the country's vast north, security sources say. ... more
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IRAQ WARS

Iraq Kurd leader accuses PM Maliki of 'dictatorship'
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki is monopolising power and preparing the ground for a return to dictatorship, Kurdish leader Massud Barzani charged in an interview published on Sunday. ... more
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CYBER WARS

Anonymous leaks emails hacked from Tunisia's leaders
Activists claiming affiliation with the hacking group Anonymous published about 2,700 emails Sunday purportedly between Tunisian Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali and other members of his government. ... more
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AFRICA NEWS

DR Congo army hunts ex-rebel deserter
Troops in the Democratic Republic of Congo closed in on a former rebel colonel Sunday and were trying to disarm him, a military official said. ... more
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DEMOCRACY

Egypt army 'neutral' towards candidates for president
Egypt's ruling military is not fielding a candidate in next month's presidential election, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) chief Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi said on Monday. ... more
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AFRICA NEWS

African turmoil boosts Sahel famine threat
The political upheavals that have swept Africa in recent months, especially Libya's civil war, have accelerated a food crisis in the Sahel, a drought-plagued, semi-desert region that spans the continent. ... more
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