Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has slammed any representation of Somali pirates as criminals, saying they act within their rights to "defend their territorial water".
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Total borrowing by Canada's non-financial sectors (households, private corporations, governments and government business enterprises) fell to $312 billion in the first quarter of 2009, down from $412 billion in the previous quarter.
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Real gross domestic product (GDP) declined 1.4% in the first quarter, the largest quarterly decrease since 1991. Both domestic and international demand continued to weaken.
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The global economic downturn has aggravated human rights violations and distracted attention from abuses, Amnesty International said on Thursday.
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Several young men who left Sweden to join the radical Islamic militant group al-Shabaab in Somalia have been killed in battle, according to Sweden’s security service Säpo.
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German Federal Foreign Office increases humanitarian aid for Somalia by one million euro. The Federal Foreign Office of Germany has pledged one million euro for relief measures for civilians in need in Somalia.
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Eritrea has dismissed as "utterly irresponsible" an African Union (AU) request for U.N. sanctions against it for allegedly supplying weapons to insurgents fighting Somalia's new administration.
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UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday "strongly" condemned the recent violence aimed at overthrowing the transitional government in Somalia, which resulted in large number of civilian casualties.
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Thousands of people are fleeing the Somali capital Mogadishu as government forces and insurgent fighters gear up for renewed fighting, Radio Garowe reports.
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Public sector employment reached 3.6 million in the first quarter of 2009, up by 74,000 or 2.1% over the same quarter in 2008. This rate of growth was slower than the annual increase of 3.2% for 2008 as a whole.
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