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An OMINOUS SIGN
Mogadishu :: Somalia | about 1 hour ago
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A Hong Kong oil tanker, purportedly sailing in the safe zone of the Indian Ocean, was recently attacked by pirates at about 1,000 nautical miles off the coast of Somalia. That is said to be the longest-range of attack so far, and an ominous sign for global...
Tags: European Union Naval Force, EU NAVFOR, Somalia, Commodore Bindt, Pieter Bindt, food aid, Mogadishu, Oman coast, Piracy, Gulf of Aden, Combined Task Force 150, Piracy in Somalia, Horn of Africa, International criminal law
Travers: It's not Somalia, but it's same story in so many ways
Ottawa :: Canada | about 11 hours ago
Credibility Rick Hillier, Canada's former chief of defence staff, says Afghanistan can't be compared to 1990s Somalia scandal. R ick Hillier, one of the powerful figures at the epicentre of the prisoner torture storm, has a revealing quirk. Question what happened...
Tags: Rick Hillier, Canada, Afghanistan, Somalia, Ottawa, Taliban insurgency, Taliban, Battle of Dahaneh, Helmand Province, War in Afghanistan, War Conflict, Human rights in Afghanistan, Hillier, Least Developed Countries, Human rights abuses, Politics
Kidnappers demand $7M for yacht couple
London :: United Kingdom | 1 day ago
Credibility The Somali kidnappers of a British yachting couple say they want $7 million for their release, the BBC reported Saturday. The British broadcaster said it had received a phone call from the kidnappers demanding the ransom as Channel 4 News broadcast footage...
Tags: Paul Chandler, rachel chandlers, Somali, Rachel Chandler, yacht couple, Indian Ocean, Channel, United Kingdom, London, Hostage taking, Piracy, Somalia, Somali people, Maersk Alabama hijacking, October 28 2007 incident off Somalia, Piracy in Somalia, Gulf of Aden, Transport in Somalia, Chandler Bing, Terrorism in Russia, Iraqi insurgency, International criminal law, Humanitarian aid, Chandler, Rachel Green
Minn. lawyer denied access to terror suspect
Saint Paul :: Canada | 1 day ago
Credibility A Minnesota law professor and advocate for Somali immigrants in the state says he was denied access to a Minneapolis man who is being held on terrorism charges in the Netherlands. William Mitchell College of Law professor Peter Erlinder says he traveled...
Tags: Minnesota, Peter Erlinder, Minneapolis, erlinder says, Canada, Saint Paul, William Mitchell College of Law, Horn of Africa, Somalia, Somali people
Somali pirates can't be beaten at sea, why we cannot condemn them!
Somali pirates are back in the headlines after a Spanish trawler and its 36 member crew has thrust the issue of Somali piracy back into the spotlight. The vessel was released after a ransom payment...
Tags: Somalia, Somali pirates, Nuclear waste, Mogadishu, Georgia (country), Piracy, Somali people, Capitalism, Gulf of Aden, Bush, Piracy in Somalia, Transport in Somalia, allnews
Why Anti-American Militancy continues?
After the lapse of more than eight years, a ‘different war’ between the US-led state actors and the non-state actors continues unabated. It includes an unending wave of ambush assaults and suicide bombers in Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Philippines,...
Tags: Occupied Kashmir., Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Philippines, Yemen, Kashmir and Palestine, Suicide attack, Anti-American Militancy, War Conflict, americans militancy, Politics, Muslim, Hillary Rodham Clinton, militancy continues, Abdel Aziz al Rantissi, Hamas, Sharon, United States, Aviv, Bin Laden, Lahore, allnews, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Pakistan, Taliban, Palestinian-Israeli, Islamic terrorism
UN children's convention at 20: Indian boy embodies the plight of millions of downtrodden kids
New Delhi :: India | 1 day ago
Credibility Arun Kumar was born to disabled parents, beaten by his grandparents, ran away from home, got a job in a garment factory and had all his savings stolen by the police...Today, at 13, he shares a cramped, dingy shelter with 63 other runaways and former street...
Tags: India, New Delhi, Child labour, Children's rights, Ann Veneman, Street children, Somalia, UNICEF, Childhood, Convention on the Rights of the Child, Social Issues, Salaam Baalak Trust
New approach to aid needed in Africa
Addis Ababa :: Ethiopia | 1 day ago
Credibility Twenty-five years after the world was gripped by harrowing scenes of starvation and death in Ethiopia, chronic hunger has returned to the Horn of Africa. Last month the Ethiopian government called for urgent international assistance to help feed 6,2-million...
Tags: Ethiopian, Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, Red Cross, Development, International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, Famine, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, Humanitarian aid, Aid, International organizations, Disaster Accident, Least Developed Countries, Poverty, Hunger, African Union member states, African countries, Horn of Africa, Somalia, world food price crisis, Malnutrition, World Food Programme, Social Issues, Environment
UN treaty to protect rights of children, only US and Somalia have not ratified it!
The US is undertaking a thorough and thoughtful review of the treaty. Yes indeed it has been 15 years already since it signed the treaty. Neither the Clinton administration nor the second BushBush administration nor now the Obama administration have seen...
Tags: UN, rights of chiildren, US ratification of rights of child treaty, Somalia, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Convention on the Rights of the Child, US ratification of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, U.S, UNICEF
Mpls. Somali man indicted for supporting terrorists
Minneapolis :: MN :: USA | 1 day ago
Credibility A 24-year-old local Somali man was indicted this afternoon in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis on charges of conspiring to provide support to terrorists. Omer Abdi Mohamed, an unemployed employment counselor and father of a two-month-old boy, also was...
Tags: Minneapolis, Al-Shabaab, Somali language, Bashir Makhtal, War Conflict, Islamist groups, Somali people, Somalia, Law Crime
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