The conflict in Afghanistan is set to dominate Anders Fogh Rasmussen's tenure as the new NATO secretary general, as it did that of his predecessor.
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One of the tools used to keep people from breaking out of prison is the answer to keeping the outlaws of the high seas from climbing on board, a Danish shipping executive says.
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A total of 36 soldiers from the Armed Forces of Montenegro are to be sent to peacekeeping missions in Afghanistan, Liberia and in Somali waters, Montenegrin Defense Minister Boro Vucinic said on Friday, noting the participation in the missions was voluntary, Radio Television of Montenegro reported.
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A new task force from Russia's Pacific Fleet has arrived in the Gulf of Aden to fight piracy off the Somali coast, a fleet spokesman said on Thursday.
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More than 500 Somalis in Greece have made largely organized demonstration in Greece, just after government police forces detained more than 200 Somalis in the morning there, witnesses told Shabelle radio on Thursday.
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The Dutch authorities have launched an investigation into the possible involvement with terrorism of four Dutchmen arrested by the police in Kenya earlier this week.
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US Congressman Donald Payne snubbed Somaliland foreign minister, Abdillahi Mohamed Duale, and met with Dr. Mohamed Omer- foreign secretary of Somaliland’s opposition KULMIYE party in Washington DC.
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Nine international aid agencies have highlighted the “urgent need for separation between humanitarian and political efforts in Somalia” in a letter to John Holmes, the Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs with the United Nations (UN) in Somalia.
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General merchandise stores either held their market share steady, or increased it, across all 10 commodity groups in 2008. This was a turnaround from 2007, when they lost market share in 6 of these groups.
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Gross sales of gasoline decreased 0.7% to 40.6 billion litres in 2008. The decline marks the first drop in fuel consumption since 2005.
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