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
KUWAIT, Nov. 25, 2008 (Reuters) — Kuwait's parliament speaker adjourned a session of parliament after 15 minutes on Tuesday following a walkout by the government in a bid to avert plans to question the prime minister, a member of the ruling family. ... > full story
BAGHDAD, Nov. 23, 2008 (Reuters) — Iraq will not seek to extend the U.N. mandate of U.S. troops and they will pull out immediately if Iraqi parliament fails to approve a pact allowing them to stay until 2011, Iraq's prime minister said on Sunday. ... > full story
KABUL, Nov. 23, 2008 (Reuters) — U.S. President-elect Barack Obama told Afghan President Hamid Karzai he would make it a priority to fight terrorism and bring security to Afghanistan and the region, the Afghan presidential palace said Sunday. ... > full story
TEL AVIV, Nov. 23, 2008 (Reuters) — An Israeli court jailed eight Jewish teenagers on Sunday for carrying out neo-Nazi attacks in a case that sparked revulsion in a state that was a haven for Jews after the Holocaust. ... > full story
KACHAGARI, Pakistan, Nov. 23, 2008 (Reuters) — Pakistan has reopened camps originally set up in the 1980s for Afghans who fled the Soviet occupation to provide shelter for those made homeless by offensives against Islamist militants on its northwest border. ... > full story
Nov. 23, 2008 (Corrects numbers of Danish troops, paragraph 11, and clarifies Danish troops not withdrawing by 2012, paragraph 13) — Afghanistan could oppose the presence of foreign troops on its soil if they do not cooperate with Afghan forces to defeat the Taliban-led insurgents across the country, the foreign minister said on Saturday. ... > full story
DHARAMSALA, India, Nov. 22, 2008 (Reuters) — The Dalai Lama reaffirmed on Sunday the support of Tibetan exiles for his "Middle Way" approach to China, but added new policy options could be considered in the future. ... > full story
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Nov. 22, 2008 (Reuters) — Rashid Rauf, a British militant with al Qaeda links, was killed along with an Egyptian by a suspected U.S. missile strike in northwest Pakistan on Saturday, Pakistani television channels and intelligence officers said. ... > full story
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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 ...
Pirate mothership sunk by Indian navy 'was Thai trawler' Nov. 26, 2008 (Guardian, UK) — The Indian navy today defended its sinking of a ship in the Gulf of Aden despite official confirmation that it was not a pirate vessel but a ...
Islamic militia to attack pirate town in Somalia Nov. 22, 2008 (Daily Telegraph, UK) — The fighters from the Shabaab militia, a fundamentalist movement likened to an African Taliban, were reported to have turned up in the port of ...
Ethiopian visitors share stories of pain and hope May 15, 2008 (New Jersey Jewish News) — Rachel Yesesechar left Ethiopia in 1984 to embrace a dream: to live in Israel. When she started the journey on foot in the middle of the night with ...
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