Hong Kong braces for mass anti-government rally
Hong Kong braced for a major anti-government rally planned for Sunday after an unusually calm Saturday night in what has been a summer of violent protests in the Asian financial hub.
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Somalia's al Shabaab hits military base, deaths on both sides
MOGADISHU Militant Islamist group al Shabaab struck a Somali government military base on Wednesday with car bombs and gunfire in a battle that both sides said caused multiple deaths to the other.
Somalia says blind female suicide bomber killed Mogadishu mayor
MOGADISHU The suicide bomber who killed the mayor of Mogadishu and six other people last month was a blind, female employee of the municipal government who was assisted by a fellow worker, Somalia's internal security ministry said on Friday.
Mogadishu mayor, once a London councillor, wounded in a blast
MOGADISHU/NAIROBI The mayor of Mogadishu had fled Somalia for Britain as a refugee and earned a master's degree, citizenship and years of experience as a councillor in London before deciding to return home to help rebuild his war-torn country.
Suicide attack kills six at Mogadishu government HQ - official
MOGADISHU A suicide bombing at municipal government headquarters in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Wednesday killed six people including district commissioners and local government chiefs, the country's information minister said.
Car bomb and all-night hotel siege kill 26 in Somalia's Kismayo
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Suicide car bomb targets hotel in Somali port city, two journalists confirmed dead
MOGADISHU A car bomb went off on Friday at a hotel in Somalia's port city of Kismayu where local elders and lawmakers had been discussing an upcoming regional election and was followed by gunfire, police said, adding that the death toll could be high.
Somalis escape to the beach and a new floating restaurant
MOGADISHU Few restaurateurs consider the threat of piracy in their plans but Abdulkadir Mohamed did so for his La Lanterna floating restaurant now moored off Mogadishu's popular Lido beach. | Video
Air strike kills four people in Somalia - relatives
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Somali security forces kill at least six people in Mogadishu
MOGADISHU Somali security forces shot dead a rickshaw driver and his passenger in the capital on Saturday and killed another four people who were protesting against the shootings, witnesses and lawmakers said.
Car bomb explodes near police academy in Somali capital - police
MOGADISHU Seven people were injured when a car bomb exploded near the police academy in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Thursday, police said, the latest in a string of attacks in the city by Islamist insurgent group al Shabaab.