UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-Moon, has warned against sending a UN peacekeeping force to Somalia. He said a UN force should remain the UN's goal, but that deploying now could worsen the country's conflict.
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Japan's lower house passed an anti-piracy bill that will allow the country's two destroyers off Somalia wider scope to use force and protect foreign-flagged ships.
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"The (International) Tribunal for the Law of the Sea is ready to judge each piracy case that states want it to deal with," Jose Luis Jesus, president of the Hamburg-based organization told the daily Die Welt.
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Pirates sea-jacked a cargo ship believed to be German owned and/or flagged and captured its 17-strong crew overnight in the Gulf of Aden, a Kenyan official said Saturday.
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In the last 12 years women's average weekly earnings have increased at a faster pace than men's. In 1997, $640 (39%) of total family earnings came from wives; by 2008, wives were contributing $740 (41% of the total).
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The European Union's executive is to pledge at least 60 million Euros (77.6 million dollars) to boost security and fight piracy in Somalia at a donor conference on Thursday, officials in Brussels said Wednesday.
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OTTAWA – Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper today announced that he is sending his Parliamentary Secretary, Pierre Poilievre, to represent Canada at the Conference Against Racism, Discrimination and Persecution in Geneva. This conference is organized by an international group of non-governmental organizations.
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Somali lawmakers in the country's national capital Mogadishu voted Saturday April 18, 2009 to implement Islamic law, or Sharia, as the national legislation. The Cabinet formally approved Sharia law and introduced a motion in parliament, where 343 MPs attended to debate and vote.
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A growing number of Western nations are boycotting the United Nations conference on racism, which begins on Monday April 20, 2009, in Geneva, voicing concern that the forum will be used as a platform to criticize Israel.
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Florent Lemaçon, the captain of the yacht TANIT was killed by a single bullet to the head, but whose bullet is was is apparently not yet clear to those who conducted the post-mortem examination.
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