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Wednesday, September 16, 2009

United States raid kills Somali Al Qaeda Leader

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US commandos have e of the most wanted killed one of the most wanted Islamic militants in Africa in a daylight raid in Somalia.

Western intelligence agents have described Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan as the ringleader of Al Qaeda cell in Kenya responsible for the bombing of an Israeli hotel on the Kenyan coast in 2002.

Nabhan may have also played a role in the attacks on two US embassies in East Africa in 1998.

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Tuesday, May 13, 2008

China Shaken

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Within Hours, the official death toll from a massive earthquake that shook China on Monday afternoon shot up from four to 107 to "several thousands". At the time of going to press, more than 9,000 people were feared dead in the earthquake the worst in China in over three decades.

In southwest China's Sichuan province - 100 km from the epicentre - 900 children were feared buried under the rubble of their high school. Rescue operations were on till 1ate night. State news agency Xinhua reported that the children were "struggling to break loose from underneath the ruins while others were crying out for help". Xinhua said 8,533 people died in Sichuan alone. In Beichuan county, near Sichuan's capital Chengdu, 80 per cent of buildings collapsed and about 5,000 people were killed.

The extent of the death and destruction from the magnitude 7.8 earthquake which struck at 2.28 pm was not revealed until evening.

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