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Source: Reuters (adds background) MOGADISHU, June 28 (Reuters) - Somali gunmen kidnapped two Danish United Nations workers in the Bakool region of southern Somalia on Saturday, residents said. "Heavily ...
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Jun 28, 2008
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Source: Reuters MOGADISHU, June 28 (Reuters) - Somali gunmen kidnapped two Danish United Nations workers in the Bakool region of south central Somalia on Saturday, residents said. "Heavily armed Islamists ...
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Jun 28, 2008
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Source: IRIN Dozens of landmines have been discovered in Arghandab District, in the southern province of Kandahar, where fierce fighting between Taliban insurgents and the Afghan army backed by international forces has killed over 90 people, mostly insurgents, and displaced thousands of civilians, according to Afghanistan's Ministry of Defence (MoD)....
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Jun 22, 2008
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Source: Reuters June 12 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Afghanistan at 1300 GMT on Thursday: BALKH - A land mine killed five people, two of them children, on Thursday in a camp housing displaced ...
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Jun 12, 2008
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Source: Reuters (Updates with detail) KABUL, June 10 (Reuters) - Two explosions heard in the Afghan capital on Tuesday were controlled detonations carried out by munitions experts inside the presidential palace, an ...
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Jun 10, 2008
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Source: Reuters KABUL, June 10 (Reuters) - Two explosions were heard in the Afghan capital on Tuesday, but it was not immediately clear what caused them or wether there were any casualties, residents said. Kabul ...
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Jun 10, 2008
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Source: IRIN The UN has renewed calls for increased protection of unarmed civilians in accordance with international humanitarian law after two attacks on 6 June targeted civilian buses, eight hours apart, leaving 24 dead and more than 80 injured....
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Jun 08, 2008
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Source: IRIN Landmine survivors and campaigners in Uganda have welcomed the approval of a new comprehensive treaty to ban cluster bombs....
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Jun 04, 2008
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Source: IRIN The demining process is making steady progress, according to the UN Mission in Nepal (UNMIN), which has been involved in the clearance and destruction of landmines and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) since November 2007, supported by a team of international specialists from ArmorGroup....
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Jun 03, 2008
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Source: Reuters (Corrects headline, second paragraph to make clear children were playing with mortar ammunition) QUETTA, Pakistan, June 3 (Reuters) - Five children died when a mortar shell they were playing with ...
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Jun 03, 2008
