The UN Security Council on Tuesday authorized the African Union peacekeeping mission to remain in Somalia until end January 2010 in order to pursue its mandate of restoring stability in the troubled nation.
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The World Health Organisation says the growing dangers posed by chemical use in developing countries are putting worsening strain on health professionals. This includes increased risk assessment needs... and dealing with the impact of chemical incidents on human health.
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The crew of the San Diego-based guided-missile cruiser Lake Champlain rescued 52 people who had been adrift in the Gulf of Aden for about seven days, the U.S.-American Navy said.
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Russia's foreign minister has met with his Somali counterpart to discuss international efforts to protect shipping routes in the Gulf of Aden from Somali pirate attacks, the Russian ministry said.
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Iran has dispatched six warships to the Gulf of Aden. The news was released by the Iranian press agency ISNA, reporting a declaration by Admiral Habibollah Sayyari.
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A Canadian reporter and an Australian photographer held hostage in Somalia for nine months said they are in poor health and want more help from their governments to secure their release.
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Canada's Prime minister, Stephen Harper, today unequivocally condemned the North Korean regime’s nuclear test carried out on May 24.
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French official stresses the importance of Sarkozy's visit to UAE,
President Nicolas Sarkozy's chief diplomatic advisor, Jean-David Levitte, has stressed the importance of the strategic partnership between UAE and France and said that the unique relations present a living model that meticulously integrate the preservation of traditions with modernity
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At a joint news conference in Washington, D.C., with Malaysia's Foreign Minister Y.B. Anifah bin Haji Aman, Secretary Clinton said, "the role that Malaysia is playing and can play, regionally and even globally, on a number of important issues is significant, and therefore we want to broaden and deepen our strategic cooperation."
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Subcommittee Chairman Russell Feingold, a Democrat from Wisconsin, said the recent rise in pirate attacks in the region is "an outgrowth of [Somalia’s] collapse, lawlessness and economic desperation that have plagued the country for over a decade."
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