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Somali government says 31 dead in hotel attack

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Somali government says 31 dead in hotel attack

MOGADISHU August 24, 2010  The Somali Information Ministry  said  31 people have died in the militant attack  on a hotel in Mogadishu. The dead included 6 members of parliament and 5 government security personnel.

"The blood of the dead is leaking out of the hotel," said Information Minister Abdirahman Osman.

The Muna Hotel stands in one of the small nominally government-controlled areas of the capital, between the presidential palace and the Indian Ocean.

Osman said one gunman had been captured. His ministry said two others had blown themselves up.  Gunfire and shelling were continuing in the area.

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Somali gunmen storm hotel, 15 MPs reported killed

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Somali gunmen storm hotel, 15 MPs reported killed

MOGADISHU August 24, 2010  Somali gunmen disguised in army uniforms stormed a hotel popular with government officials on Tuesday. A lawmaker  said at least 15 parliamentarians were killed.

A hotel worker who fled the hotel said one of the attackers was a suicide bomber and had blown himself up.

Hardline al Shabaab Islamists linked to al Qaeda have waged a three-year insurgency against the  weak, Western-backed government. They control most of Mogadishu. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack.

The government and more than 6,300 African Union peacekeepers have not been able  to bring order to Somalia after nearly two decades of  lawlessness.

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World Bank to give $900 million in flood aid to Pakistan

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World Bank to give $900 million in flood aid to Pakistan

ISLAMABAD August 17, 2010 The World Bank will give $900 million for relief efforts to help  Pakistan's flood relief work./sites/default/files/xml_images/2010-08-17T122922Z_01_NOOTR_RTRMDNP_1_India-508841-1-pic0.jpg

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