VLADIVOSTOK - A Russian Pacific Fleet task force has resumed anti-piracy patrols in the Gulf of Aden after a five-day visit to the Seychelles, a fleet spokesman said on Thursday according to RIA Novosti
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U.S. families and supporters of Camp Ashraf residents in Iraq, on hunger strike outside the White House for the past 72 days, will celebrate the release of the 36 residents taken hostage by the Iraqi Government last July and their safe return to Camp Ashraf. They will end their hunger strike.
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A group of 36 Iranian opposition members have been freed after nearly three months in custody in Iraq.
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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 it will become a featured exporter of biological weapon detection equipment in South Korea.
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TRIPOLI - Two pilots were killed when a Libyan Air Force MiG-23 Flogger fighter crashed on Wednesday in Tripoli during a demonstration flight, a Libyan Defense Ministry spokesman said according to RIA Novosti.
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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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