Crowds greet Prime Minister
MOGADISHU (Reuters): Somalia's prime minister swept into Mogadishu in an armoured convoy yesterday a day after his Ethiopian-backed forces drove Islamist rivals from the city they had ruled by sharia law since June.
OAS wants rules for election financing
BRIDGETOWN (CMC): A hemispheric body has described 2006 as a good year for Caribbean democracies but said the issue of election campaign financing must be addressed.
Muslims pray for peace at Mount Arafat
MOUNT ARAFAT, Saudi Arabia (Reuters): More than two million elated Muslim pilgrims crowded on to holy Mount Arafat near Mecca yesterday, praying for Muslims around the world and hoping for a safe haj.
Ford cited friendship in Nixon pardon
WASHINGTON (Reuters): Former President Gerald Ford told an interviewer last year he pardoned Richard Nixon in part to spare his friend the stigma of a criminal conviction for the Watergate cover-up, the Washington Post reported yesterday.
157 presumed dead after boats capsize off Yemen
GENEVA (Reuters): More than 150 people were presumed dead yesterday after two boats of would-be migrants fleeing Somalia capsized off the coast of Yemen, the United Nations refugee agency said.
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