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  • Soccer hooligans: Egyptian street still simmering 24 Nov 2009 01:20 GMT
    ... CAIRO: The assault of Egyptian fans by Algerian football hooligans after the World Cup qualifier ... be Algerian fans outside the stadium with weapons to assault Egyptians coming out of the ...

  • Israeli Warplanes Bomb Gaza Smuggling Tunnels, Weapons Plant 24 Nov 2009 11:52 GMT
    ... Israeli Warplanes Bomb Gaza Smuggling Tunnels, Weapons Plant (RTTNews) - Three Palestinian civilians were ... three targets in the Gaza Strip. Two arms smuggling tunnels in Rafah bordering with Egypt and ... Strip were destroyed, reports said. The Israeli military (IDF) said it was responding to two ...

  • 2 Congo warlords plead innocent to war crimes 24 Nov 2009 16:50 GMT
    ... – Two Congolese militia leaders sent child soldiers and other fighters to wipe out a ... to three crimes against humanity and seven war crimes, including murder, rape, sexual enslavement and ... soldiers and older fighters armed with automatic weapons, machetes and spears to destroy the village ...

  • BritainĀ's secret plans to topple Saddam two years before war 24 Nov 2009 16:14 GMT
    ... western powers that sold Sadaam his chemical weapons: specifically, Donald Rumsfeld in 1980. When the ... live, then there can be no further war, because we will all finally stop voting ... hope someone - perhaps the parents of soldiers who died or were maimed in that ...

  • Index shows rampant corruption in Africa 24 Nov 2009 06:50 GMT
    ... Published in: Legalbrief Africa Date: Mon 23 November ... states are among the most corrupt with war-torn Somalia the very worst (with 1.1 points). ... unresolved corruption allegations surrounding South Africa's multibillion-rand arms deal - in which the President himself long ...

  • At least 400 pipelines vandalized in Niger Delta: official 24 Nov 2009 11:18 GMT
    ... the area. The government mobilized the Nigerian army and coast guard in an anti-banditry operation. In ... region, urging them to lay down their weapons by Oct. 4 in a bid to end unrest, which has cost Africa's top oil exporter billions of dollars in ...

  • Netanyahu: 'No Deal Yet' to Free Israeli Soldier 24 Nov 2009 15:51 GMT
    ... that a deal to free an Israeli soldier held by Hamas militants for more than ... undercut progress. Israeli aircraft attacked a suspected weapons factory and smuggling tunnels in Gaza early ... to free soldiers in a society where military service is compulsory. Ron Kehrmann's 17-year-old daughter, ...

  • Youth forced to fight Somali war 24 Nov 2009 08:53 GMT
    ... Chicago - A group of Somali-American youth recruited ... in Minnesota to join a bitter civil war an ocean away. One died while participating ... were trained in the use of small arms and military-style tactics by Somali, Arab and Western ...

  • 5 accused of trying to buy weapons, missiles for Hezbollah 24 Nov 2009 03:44 GMT
    ... PHILADELPHIA - It began in 2007 with the ... grew. It began to order laptops and military gear destined for Beirut, Lebanon. It even ... it lured its big fish, an alleged arms dealer for Hezbollah, to Philadelphia and arrested him ...

  • Congolese rebels plead not guilty in war crimes trial - Summary 24 Nov 2009 13:52 GMT
    ... three judges. Ngudjolo Chui, jointly charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity, also entered ... are also accused of having used child soldiers - defined as a war crime under ... extreme cruelty. The Lendu militias used automatic weapons, machetes and spears. Many of those who ...

  • War child makes hip-hop a weapon 24 Nov 2009 15:32 GMT
    ... -- Emmanuel Jal is fighting to give the youth ... after his own childhood was stolen by war. The Sudanese hip hop musician was a former child soldier of Sudan's brutal civil war that raged ...

  • Saudi troops killed in rebel clashes 24 Nov 2009 01:30 GMT
    ... DUBAI: Three Saudi soldiers were killed and an unspecified number wounded ... has imposed a naval blockade to stop weapons being smuggled to insurgents. Saudi air force ... rebels launched hit-and-run attacks against advancing Yemeni troops. ...

  • Israeli Army Confirms Air Strike at Gaza Targets 24 Nov 2009 12:35 GMT
    ... The Israeli army has confirmed that its fighter jets struck three ... Tuesday morning. During the attacks, "a Hamas-owned weapons manufacturing facility in northern Gaza, as well ... on the strip's Rafah border area (adjoining Egypt)" were hit, said the Israel Defense Forces ...

  • Soldiers build Kei bridges 24 Nov 2009 06:01 GMT
    ... SOLDIERS put down their weapons and picked up tools to build bridges ... secure this to save us.” Plata said military intervention all over the country would help ...

  • Iraq war defence minister sets sights on 'oil boom' 24 Nov 2009 08:45 GMT
    ... toppled Saddam Hussein routinely claimed that the war was being fought for oil, something Tony Blair ... in Sussex, was a prominent supporter of military action. Writing in his local paper in ... claimed that “new and damning evidence” of weapons of mass destruction had come to light, ...


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