Eleven wedding shoppers dead in crash
March 2008
ELEVEN members of an extended family were killed in Egypt on Saturday in a traffic accident while returning home from shopping for furniture for a couple about to be married, a security source said.
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Warrant issued for Thatcher’s son
March 2008
EQUATORIAL Guinea has issued an international arrest warrant against Mark Thatcher, son of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, accusing him of being an instigator of an abortive coup plot in 2004, the country’s chief prosecutor said Saturday.
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Troops shell Somali market, killing 11
March 2008
AT least 11 people were killed in Mogadishu on Saturday when troops at the Villa Somalia presidential palace returned fire against Islamist insurgents who attacked it with mortar bombs, witnesses said.
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