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Brigadier Moin-ud-din Ahmed was deputy force commander of the United Nations Mission in Sudan, and was home in Islamabad on vacation when two assailants on a motorbike shot at his army jeep in rush-hour traffic.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-five years after a the famine that killed nearly a million people, Ethiopia&#8217;s government asks the international community for<a href=\"http:\/\/nazret.com\/blog\/index.php?title=25_years_after_the_great_famine_ethiopia&amp;more=1&amp;c=1&amp;tb=1&amp;pb=1\"> emergency food aid<\/a> for 6.2 million people.<\/p>\n<p>Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadizic announces that he will <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rnw.nl\/english\/article\/karadzic-refuses-appear-yugoslavia-tribunal\">boycott his trial for genocide<\/a> scheduled to start in the Hague next Monday, complaining that he has not been given enough time to prepare his defense.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/hasen\/spages\/1122798.html\">Israeli sources<\/a> report that Israel and Iran both attended nuclear talks in Cairo last month and that the Israeli and Iranian delegations met several times, the first direct contact between the two nations in 30 years. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/detail.aspx?id=109323&amp;sectionid=351020104\">Iran denies<\/a> that such talks took place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 20 people are killed in a battle between Islamic militants and African peacekeepers after militants attack the main airport in Mogadishu, Somalia. 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