BAIDOA, Somalia, Nov. 27, 2008 (Reuters) — At least five people were killed and 17 injured Thursday when assailants tossed grenades into a busy market in the town where Somalia's parliament sits, witnesses said. ... > full story
UNITED NATIONS, Nov. 26, 2008 (Reuters) — U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said on Wednesday he was disappointed that Sudan's government was still conducting military activity in Darfur in violation of a ceasefire and urged restraint from all sides. ... > full story
MUMBAI, Nov. 26, 2008 (Reuters) — Terrorists attacked India's financial hub of Mumbai in at least seven places, the state police chief said Wednesday. ... > full story
COMO, Italy, Nov. 26, 2008 (Reuters) — An Italian man and his wife were sentenced to life in jail for slitting the throats of four neighbors, including a two-year-old toddler who they said made too much noise, a court said on Wednesday. ... > full story
BOSASSO, Somalia, Nov. 26, 2008 (Reuters) — Somali gunmen kidnapped two Western journalists in the northern province of Puntland on Wednesday, police said, in the latest attack on foreigners working in the lawless Horn of Africa nation. ... > full story
BOSASSO, Somalia, Nov. 26, 2008 (Reuters) — Somali security forces will storm a hijacked Yemeni cargo ship if the pirates holding it refuse to free it without a ransom, a minister in the semi-autonomous northern Puntland region said on Wednesday. ... > full story
LONDON, Nov. 25, 2008 (Reuters) — A British man was sentenced to life in prison on Tuesday for repeatedly raping his two daughters over a 25-year period, fathering seven children by them during years of violence and abuse. ... > full story
KABUL, Nov. 23, 2008 (Reuters) — Violations of children's rights are increasing in Afghanistan with more attacks against schools, more children killed and more evidence of child sexual abuse, the United Nations said on Sunday. ... > full story
KABUL, Nov. 23, 2008 (Reuters) — Violations of children's rights are increasing in Afghanistan with more attacks against schools, more children killed and more evidence of child sexual abuse, the United Nations said on Sunday. ... > full story
BOSASSO, Somalia, Nov. 23, 2008 (Reuters) — As dawn breaks over the Indian Ocean each morning, elders in Somali pirate bases sip strong coffee and clutch mobile phones to their ears, eager to hear the latest from the gunmen out at sea. ... > full story
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Human rights group says activists detained in Sudan Nov. 26, 2008 (Swiss Info) — Sudanese authorities arrested three human rights activists in Khartoum this week and two of them remain in detention, New York-based watchdog Human ...
Indian navy sank Thai trawler, not pirate ship Nov. 26, 2008 (ThisIsLondon.co.uk) — THE PIRATE "mother ship" sunk last week by the Indian navy was a Thai fishing trawler that had been seized hours earlier by pirates, it emerged ...
The Pirates of Puntland Nov. 26, 2008 (Townhall.com) — Somalia's pirates have a big problem on their hands -- in the form of their greatest prize, the Saudi-owned oil tanker the Sirius Star. . . The ...
Tabar's operation was in self-defence: Navy Nov. 26, 2008 (Rediff) — A day after a Thai shipowner claimed it was his trawler with 15 men on board that the Indian war ship INS Tabar had sunk off the Gulf of Aden last ...
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