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Somalia |
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At least 45 dead in mosque attack
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| May.5 |
 Baghdad |
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Iraq's two top Shiite blocs merge Almost 2 months after elections, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's State of Law Coalition and the Iraqi National Alliance have announced their...
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| May.6 |
 Somalia |
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 Russian marines storm hijacked oil tanker| Marines have stormed a tanker hijacked by pirates in the Gulf of Aden, freeing its 23 man crew and cargo of oil to be worth up to $50 million | |
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| May.7 |
Arab Countries |
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All-Arabic web addresses go live The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced that the first sites with all-Arabic Web addresses are now online
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| May.8 |
 West Bank |
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Palestinians leaders agree to indirect talks U.S. special envoy George Mitchell will broker the talks, shuttling between the two sides
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| May.10 |
Iraq |
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85 killed, scores wounded in violence Attacks were launched in six provinces, including Basra, Wasit and Babil -- which tend to be less violent than others
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| May.12 |
 Libya |
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 Child is sole Libya jet crash survivor  Map of Tripoli Libya 92 passengers and 11 crew members were killed. An 8-year-old boy who is a Dutch citizen is the sole survivor of a deadly Afriqiyah Airways crash
| Ruben van Assouw, suffered multiple fractures in his lower limbs and underwent an operation at Al Khadra Hospital in Tripoli
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 Oman |
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  Pirates hijack Greek cargo ship Pirates hijacked a Greek-owned The Liberian-flagged Eleni P, operated by Eurobulk, off the coast of Oman
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| May.13 |
Libya |
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  70 from Holland died in Libya crash Seventy Dutch passengers were among the 103 people killed in the Libya plane crash in which an 8-year-old boy was the sole survivor
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| May.14 |
Somalia |
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 Somali pirates free ship after ransom paid Somali pirates have released The St. James Park , a British chemical tanke,r after receiving a ransom payment
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| May.15 |
 Darfur |
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Military occupies rebel stronghold More than 100 rebels from the Justice and Equality Movement (Jem) had been killed in the western region of Darfur
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Netherlands |
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 Libyan crash survivor returns home Ruben van Assouw, the 9-year-old sole survivor of the plane crash that killed 103 people in Libya, returned to the Netherlands
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| May.16 |
Somalia |
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Rebels attack Somali parliament Map of Mogadishu Somalia| At least 20 people were killed and 60 others wounded. Most of those killed were civilians who died inside the Bakara Market | |
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U.S. cleric praised in al Qaeda message A man believed to be the head of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula spoke in support of American-born Anwar al-Awlaki
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Iraq |
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Hussein's nuclear plants dismantling The shell of former Saddam Hussein's efforts to produce a nuclear bomb is being slowly dismantled along the banks of the Tigris River
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Baghdad |
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Iraq PM suffers blow in vote recount A recount of votes in the Iraqi election found no change in seat allocation for any of the blocs in the most populous province, Baghdad
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| May.21 |
Sunni Triangle |
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Car bomb kills 22 in Iraq Map of Al Khalis Iraq A car bombing outside a coffee shop killed 22 people and wounded 53
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| May.24 |
Somalia |
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 U.S. destroyer frees ship from 50 pirates The M/V Iceberg was rescued last week after the USS McFaul conducted a 26-hour surveillance mission
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 Afghan U.S. troops more than in Iraq For the first time since the invasion of Iraq in 2003, the number of U.S. troops in Afghanistan has surpassed the number in Iraq
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| May.25 |
Baghdad |
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Iraqi Airways drops Europe flights Iraqi Airways has dropped flights to London and Sweden after a row with Kuwait over war reparations
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Gaza |
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Airstrikes wound 17 Map of Rafah Palestine A pair of airstrikes launched by the Israel Defense Forces in retaliation for mortar shells fired into Israel from Gaza
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| May.30 |
Gaza |
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 Deaths as Israeli forces storm aid ship  More than 10 people onboard a flotilla carrying aid for the Palestinian territory of Gaza were killed when security forces boarded the boats
| Armed forces boarded the largest vessel overnight, clashing with some of the 500 people on board' about 64 km out to sea.
Israeli soldiers were shot at and attacked with weapons; the activists say Israeli troops came on board shooting.
The activists were attempting to defy a blockade
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| May.31 |
Gaza |
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 Commando: Activists 'beat us up' | Three Israeli choppers with 15 soldiers aboard and several commando boats were involved in a skirmish with activists on a flotilla | |
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 Israeli PM 'regrets' deaths Benjamin Netanyahu has expressed regret after at least nine people died when troops stormed ships trying to break the Gaza blockade
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