The top United Nations humanitarian official today deplored the growing number of attacks against aid workers, while highlighting that the effects of natural and man-made disasters on people’s lives would become more devastating.
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Somalis in Minneapolis staged a protest over the weekend against a group they believe recruits teenagers for terror attacks in Somalia.
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Somalia has sanctioned French military intervention inside the country aimed at releasing French servicemen recently kidnapped by militants.
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Somali Social Affairs Minister Mohammad Ali Ibrahim told FRANCE 24 that two kidnapped French agents are now both being held by the al Shabaab militant group.
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The French government is seeking the rapid release of two of its agents kidnapped in Somalia, Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said Monday.
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A Chinese flotilla departed last Thursday to escort merchant vessels and to protect them from pirates in the Gulf of Aden, the third task force that the country has deployed to the region since the end of last year.
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At least five large groups of pirates totalling over 5,000 people are operating in the Gulf of Aden, the first deputy chief of the Russian Navy General Staff has said, according to RIA Novosti.
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Following apparent difficulties in release negotiations, Somali pirates took three German hostages from the hijacked cargo ship Hansa Stavanger to the mainland on Sunday, reports said, reports The Local.
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Cross-border transactions in securities resulted in substantial inflows of funds to Canada in May. Foreign acquisitions of Canadian securities reached a five-year high of $18.9 billion in the month, fuelled by new issues of Canadian corporate bonds.
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According to the Times, the upcoming long-range exercises by the Israeli Air Force in the United States later this month and the test of the Arrow interceptor missile on a US missile range in the Pacific Ocean may be related.
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