MEXICO - The Government of Mexico hosted a meeting on Monday Oct. 5, 2009 with senior officials from Canada and the United States as part of ongoing North American efforts to address the challenges posed by the 2009 Influenza A(H1N1).
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While the Somali Government continues to face a number of challenges, it has made some encouraging progress in the political and security fields and deserves the continued support of its international partners, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says.
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Over 3.6 million people in Somalia are in desperate need of aid, where droughts and unabated violence rule the country. Somalia presents the single largest humanitarian challenge in the world, where food crisis, droughts and violence continue to devastate the country, a leading aid group says.
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Turkish General Staff said Monday that a Turkish frigate would escort HORIZON-1 --an hijacked Turkish ship which was released earlier Monday by pirates-- out of the danger zone.
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A Ugandan security detail, described first by eye-witnesses as armed kidnappers, nabbed a Somali state minister in Kampala, the Uganda government admitted.
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LOS ANGELES - Universal Detection Technology (OTCBB:UNDT), a developer of early-warning monitoring technologies to protect people from bioterrorism and other infectious health threats and provider of counter-terrorism consulting and training services, announced today that the company has entered an agreement with U.S. Department of Commerce's Commercial Service to become a Featured U.S. Exporter (FUSE) of bioterrorism monitoring equipment in France.
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On Sunday, Spain began the judicial hearings to determine the fate of two Somali men, who were allegedly part of a hijacking team that left a Spanish tuna boat captured by sea-shifta near the coast of Somalia.
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Local observers reported that the gang of sea-shifta holding the Turkish vessel MV HORIZON I received a randsom and thereafter let the ship and crew sail.
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After a month of a lull of activity along the coast of the Horn of Africa, a group of Somalis captured on Friday around 06h30 the Spanish-flagged FV ALAKRANA hunting for tuna in the Indian Ocean.
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KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. - Air Force officials here have undertaken a massive effort to demilitarize more than 100,000 nuclear weapons-related legacy assets from its intercontinental ballistic missile, aircraft and space test programs.
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