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Kidnapped Saudi diplomat freed in Yemen: tribal chief

August 12, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

Al Qaeda-linked militants have released a Saudi Arabian diplomat kidnapped in southern Yemen in March, a tribal source said on Sunday, after mediation by local tribal leaders. Abdallah al-Khalidi, the deputy consul in the Saudi consulate in the Yemeni port … read more »

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Aircraft bomb key Somali town

December 8, 2011 by IndepthAfrica

Mogadishu – Residents in a southern Somali town say planes have bombed bases belonging to al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab militants and at least one person was killed. Bardhere town elder Abdi Aden says he heard the sound of planes and then explosions … read more »

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Somali parliament approves new prime minister

June 28, 2011 by benim

Somali lawmakers have overwhelmingly approved the appointment of a new, Harvard-educated prime minister who said Tuesday that he would focus on combating the country’s al-Qaida-linked militants who are trying to topple his U.N.-backed, fragile government. Parliamentary Speaker Sharif Hassan Sheik … read more »

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Italian parliament rejects prosecutors’ search request in Berlusconi prostitution probe

February 3, 2011 by benim

ROME – The Italian parliament has rejected prosecutors’ request to search some of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s properties in a prostitution probe targeting him. Milan prosecutors allege Berlusconi paid for sex with a minor and then used his office to … read more »

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Silvio Berlusconi urges Italians to break the law not to pay TV licence after he is slammed on series of shows

January 30, 2011 by benim

Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi has urged Italians to break the law and not pay their TV licence following a series of shows that have slammed him. Berlusconi, 74, is facing allegations of sex with an underage prostitute, Karima El … read more »

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Silvio Berlusconi hit by drug allegations as well as sex claims

January 27, 2011 by benim

Marysthell García Polanco. Drugs were found in a flat allegedly provided to her by Berlusconi. Photograph: Matteo Bazzi/EPA The scandal involving Silvio Berlusconi’s private life deepened today after drugs were mentioned in new evidence to Italy’s parliament. The new evidence … read more »

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Silvio Berlusconi had encounters with a second under-age showgirl

January 27, 2011 by benim

The Brazilian showgirl Iris Berardi (L). Nicole Minetti (R) became a councillor in Lombardy with Mr Berlusconi’s support Photo: FOTOGRAMMA The prime minister, 74, is already accused of paying for sex with a teenage nightclub dancer known as Ruby the Heartbreaker, … read more »

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You’re a buffoon: TV host’s rebuff to ranting Berlusconi who branded his programme a ‘whorehouse’

January 26, 2011 by benim

Sleaze-hit Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi yesterday showed the pressure was getting to him after he called a late night TV news show and traded insults with the presenter. Berlusconi is at the centre of a sex probe involving an … read more »

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Italy’s Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi ‘paid TV weather girl £100,000′ according to bank records

January 24, 2011 by benim

‘No-interest loans’: Alessandra Sorcinelli A glamorous TV weather girl was paid more than £100,000 by Silvio Berlusconi after attending his infamous sex parties, it is claimed. Prosecutors have discovered bank records which show that he gave Alessandra Sorcinelli money last … read more »

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‘I had sex with Berlusconi’

January 23, 2011 by benim

The sex scandal engulfing Silvio Berlusconi deepened when, for the first time, one of the women named in a prostitution investigation admitted that she had sex with the prime minister. Maria Ester Garcia Polanco, 25, denied that she did so … read more »

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Female politician staged ‘lesbian’ sex shows for Berlusconi at ‘whorehouse’ parties, claim court papers

January 18, 2011 by benim

Woman accused of organising girls is former dental hygienist he met after marble statue attack – and persuaded to join his party Women paid to have sex with Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi dressed in nurse and police uniforms and … read more »

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Berlusconi paid for sex with ‘many women’ at his home, prosecutors claim

January 18, 2011 by benim

Karima el-Mahroug, a Moroccan belly dancer, allegedly had sex with Silvio Berlusconi for money when she was 17, which is illegal under Italian law. Photograph: Reuters Silvio Berlusconi’s political career is once again in jeopardy after prosecutors today accused him … read more »

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Nearly 80 Ethiopian and Somali migrants drown off Yemen as boats sink

January 3, 2011 by benim

Up to 80 African migrants are feared to have drowned off the south coast of Yemen after their boats capsized, Yemeni officials say. The migrants, mostly from Ethiopia, were travelling in two boats which were hit by strong wind and … read more »

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Terrorists posing as refugees in Yemen

November 22, 2010 by benim

Militants from war-torn Somalia are using refugee routes into Yemen as a cover for making contact with an al-Qaeda group responsible for a series of plots against the West. Yemeni officials have claimed that members of the al-Shabaab terrorist group … read more »

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Ransom paid to Somali pirates for British couple’s freedom

November 14, 2010 by benim

A British couple kidnapped by pirates has been released after more than a year in captivity, Somali leaders said Sunday. Paul and Rachel Chandler were seized from their yacht in October last year, just after they set sail from the … read more »

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