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Fresh clashes erupted Friday in the northern breakaway Somalia region of Puntland with Al-Qaida linked militants, leaving at least seven combatants dead and nine wounded, officials and witnesses said.

Fighting erupted when militants led by local warlord Mohamed Said Atom tried to recapture a military base they had lost to the Puntland forces in clashes on Wednesday near the Galgala mountains.

“The terrorists launched a hit and run attack on one of our bases near Galgala. They were defeated and four of their militants killed,” said Colonel Omar Abdulahi, a Puntland security official.

“Unfortunately we lost two soldiers and three others were injured.”

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After some days of calm, violence is renew exploded in indian Kashmir and in clashes with police 4 people have been killed.

These new incidents are happened in Pattan, Kupwara and Sopore have grown up balance of separatist protests in this State that is arrived at 56 death since June 11.

In consideration of prayer of Friday, local autorities have decided to suspend curfew, but has pushed thousands of people to get down in square.

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Government forces in the semiautonomous Somali region of Puntland have made two military offensives against allies of the Shabaab militant group, trying to drive back insurgent fighters who have been gaining ground in a comparatively stable area of northeastern Somalia.

Officials in Puntland said that at least 18 militants and 3 government soldiers were killed Sunday in fierce fighting in mountain villages along the northern coast, near the port town of Boosaaso.

Hundreds of government troops, along with dozens of armed civilians who volunteered to join the fight, stormed the rebel-controlled villages, Puntland officials said.

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At least 17 people have been killed and 28 injured in attacks by al-Shabaab and Hizbul Islam fighters on the African Union (AU) forces and Somali government soldiers in southern Mogadishu.

Meanwhile, the AU troops and pro-government forces attacked Bakara, an open market at the center of Mogadishu, where 7 civilians were killed in the crossfire.

In other clashes which broke out close to the market, 10 people were killed and 28 others wounded.

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00:06 – Heavy artillery shelling from the Georgian villages of Nikozi and Ergneti, as well as from the Georgian city of Gori, targeted at the capital city of the Republic of South Ossetia, Tskhinval, has begun. Ossetian villages of Dmenis, Sarabuk, Satikar, Tsunar, Khetagurovo, Velit, Mugut, Didmukha, Znaur, Galuanta and others are also under heavy shelling.

00:42 – Georgia has officially announced the war. The Commander of the Georgian peacekeepers Mamuka Kurashvili officially informs the Commander of the Joint Peacekeeping Forces (JPKF) in the conflict zone, Major-General Marat Kulakhmetov, that Georgia is starting its military operation in the zone of Georgian-Osseitan conflict to restore constitutional order in South Ossetia. He calls on the Russian peacekeepers deployed in the conflict zone not to interfere into the situation.

01:00 – Howitzer and large-caliber mortar fire opened at the villages of Dmenis, Znaur and Khetagurovo.

01:38 – Assault at Tskhinval is taking place in all directions. The Georgian side is shelling Tskhinval from GRAD artillery systems, howitzer and large-caliber mortars.

02:00 – Tskhinval volunteer fighters are defending the city, taking the positions in the northern, southern and western parts of the city.

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