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The BBC's Mohammed Olad Hassan, who was at the scene, saw at least three dead bodies laid out on the ground. The ceremony was being held at a local hotel for the graduation of 43 students from the Banadir University....

The pirates have set up an exchange in Haradheere, the main port used by the bucaneers, where shares are traded in a whopping 72 pirate outfits. The profits have so far bought countless SUVs, other luxury goodies, and even a...

On 2nd February 2009, the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government, Anthony Albanese, directed the Inspector of Transport Security, Mick Palmer, to conduct an Inquiry under the Inspector of Transport Security Act 2006, into International Piracy and...

Cooking pots and pans stained with blood were still scattered around the courtyard of the Martini Hospital. A mortar bomb had landed in the garden of this war veterans' retirement home in the Somali capital the day before, killing nine...

Maritime Pirates Threaten Everyone, Especially Continent's Hungry Charles W. Corey 2 December 2009 Oceangoing ships are responsible for moving at least 80 percent of all commerce worldwide, so maritime pirates are a threat to everyone, especially those who are starving...

Al Shabaab to overthrow the Somali government, the African Union Mission in Somalia has said. The AU special representative for Somalia, Wafula Wamunyinyi, also listed Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, America, Tanzania, Kenya and Sudan as countries where Al Shabaab has recruited....

O]ur troop commitment in Afghanistan cannot be open-ended -- because the nation that I am most interested in building is our own." —President Obama But Afghanistan comes first? President Obama made the best possible case for dispatching more troops to...

Jeremy Renner, who might be playing Hawkeye, says we won't be seeing a traditional version of the archer's costume: "It's going to be modernized, it's not going to be the guy with the big purple [mask], it's not going to...