Moderate Sufis emerged last year to take on Somalia`s powerful al-Shabaab, an extremist group with ties to al-Qaeda. They have won several key areas and have engaged in power-sharing negotiations with the government.

From behind green sandbags, Abdul Gader fired his rusting AK-47 down a narrow road. A Koran, its pages open, rested on the earth near his sweat-soaked body. So did a pile of bullets. Before him was territory controlled by radical al-Shabaab fighters. Behind him was territory Gader and his comrades had taken away from them.

“They are the enemy of my religion and my culture,” Gader, a strapping 17-year-old with a boyish face, declared after pumping another burst of bullets at his targets lurking among crumbling houses.

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At least 73 bodies have been pulled out of the mangled wreckage where two trains crashed in eastern India early Friday in an incident authorities linked to Maoist rebels.

By Friday night, hours after the massive collision, prospects were getting dim for anybody else left in the wreckage of crushed train cars, rescuers said.

Also about 115 passengers were injured when 13 cars of the Lokmanya Tilak Gyaneshwari Express derailed, capsized on a parallel track and were slammed by a cargo train, authorities said.

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Gunmen attacked worshippers in two Ahmedi worship places in Garhi Shahu and Model Town areas in Lahore on Friday, taking hostages and killings at least 70 people besides injuring around 100 including police personnel.

The gunmen opened fire shortly after Friday prayers and threw grenades at two Ahmadi worship places. At least 23 persons were killed in Model Town while 47 casualties were reported at Garhi Shahu. Police cleared worship places after intense fighting. One of the assailants died on the spot while according to reports police arrested two attackers one of them in injured condition.

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This morning in a firefight have been killed four militants of Kurdistan Workers’ Party in province of Tunceli, at east of Turkey, while was going on a military operation.

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The UN Security Council has voted to withdraw a UN force from Chad and the Central African Republic.

The 4,375-strong force is to pull out in stages by the end of 2010.

It was deployed in 2009 to protect hundreds of thousands of displaced Chadians and refugees from the Sudanese province of Darfur.

The withdrawal was requested by Chad. But Amnesty International warned that the UN decision could endanger thousands of refugees in the region.

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North korean leader Kim Jong-il has ordered to its soldiers to be ready for war. South korean agency Yonhap affirms it, citing sources from North Korea.

Tension between two koreas has had an sudden escalation with sanctions decided Monday by Seoul against Pyongyang, accused of sinking of a south korean corvette that has caused the dead of 46 people.

The order of ‘dear leader’ Kim Jong-il of max allert to northkorean troups, with also «ready to fight if attacked», has been referred by a group of refugee of North in Seoul, North Korea Intellectuals Solidarity (Nkis), according «the dispositions were sent publicly to the whole nation».

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Suspected fighters have launched a rocket and ground attack on Nato’s main military base in southern Afghanistan, days after a similar assault on the coalition’s military base in Bagram.

Nato officials said the fighters fired a number of rockets and mortars at the Kandahar Air Field on Saturday, wounding an unspecified number of Nato troops.

“Kandahar Air Field came under indirect fire at approximately 8:00 tonight and shortly afterward a ground attack was under way as well,” a Nato spokesman said.

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