WASHINGTON (AFP) - US President Barack Obama made a landmark gesture to communist Cuba, lifting all curbs on travel and money transfers by Cuban-Americans to the island for the first time in three decades.
 
The White House said the move was intended to encourage expanding democratic and political rights in Cuba and called on Havana to [...]

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By Abdi Sheikh and Abdi Guled
 
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somalia’s militant Islamist rebel group al Shabaab said Monday it fired mortars at a plane carrying a U.S. lawmaker, a day after U.S. snipers killed three Somali pirates and freed the American ship captain they had been holding hostage.
An al Shabaab spokesman said his group fired at [...]

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BY CORRESPONDENT
MOMBASA-The Federal Bureau of Investigation plans to document tactics used by crew members of Maersk Alabama, as a point of reference in dealing with piracy in the Somali waters.
 
In the new strategy, the crew in the ship that was released last week will assist with vital information on how to deal with the insurgent [...]

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Samson Obama and Barack Obama
Dominic Tobin
BARACK OBAMA’s half-brother has been refused entry to Britain after reportedly being accused of an attempted sex attack on a 13-year-old girl on his last visit.
Samson Obama, who runs a mobile phone shop in Nairobi in Kenya, was on his way to the president’s inauguration in January when he tried [...]

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