SOMALIA: Coalition troops drive out Islamists
KISMAYU (Reuters): Defeated Somali Islamists fled their defences near a southern town and headed towards the Kenyan border yesterday in what looked like the end of a nearly two-week war with the Ethiopian-backed government.
INDONESIA: Hunt on for missing plane
JAKARTA (Reuters): Indonesia focused rescue efforts on Sulawesi island late yesterday after an Adam Air Boeing 737-400 plane went missing with 96 passengers and six crew on board. Contact with the plane was lost yesterday...
INDONESIA: 200 saved in ferry disaster
REMBANG (Reuters): At least 200 people survived the sinking of an Indonesian ferry, the Health Ministry said on Monday, even as body bags were being prepared for victims and more than 400 remained unaccounted for.
UNITED STATES - Softer side to Saddam
WASHINGTON (Reuters):While in United States custody, former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein smoked cigars, watered a few weeds and reminisced about happy times when his children were young, a nurse who cared for him...
FRANCE - 2006 was deadly year for reporters
PARIS (Reuters): Journalists suffered one of their deadliest years ever in 2006, with Iraq once again proving the most dangerous place in the world for the media to work, two media watchdogs said on Sunday.
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