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A US security officer looks at images created by a scanner during a demonstration at Ronald Reagan National Airport in Arlington, Virginia. Justice Minister Michael Aondoaaka said that Nigeria will appeal to the United States to remove it from a terrorism flight watchlist drawn up in the wake of a failed plot to blow up a US airliner. © AFP/Getty Images/File Chip Somodevilla

ABUJA (AFP) - Nigeria will appeal to the United States to remove it from a terrorism flight watchlist drawn up in the wake of a failed plot to blow up a US airliner, Justice Minister Michael Aondoaaka said on ...

Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard poses at his home in Viby, near Aarhus, Denmark, in 2006. A Somali man was charged Saturday with the attempted murder of Westergaard, whose caricatures of the Muslim prophet Mohammed sparked riots and protests around the world. © AFP/SCANPIX/File Preben Hupfeld

COPENHAGEN (AFP) - Danish police on Saturday charged a Somali man with the attempted murder of a cartoonist whose caricatures of the Muslim prophet Mohammed sparked riots and protests around the world.

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An armed suspected pirate looks over the edge of a skiff in international waters off the coast of Somalia in 2006. All 25 crew on board a British-flagged cargo ship hijacked off the coast of Somalia are unharmed after the vessel was seized Friday, an EU naval force tracking pirates in the area said Saturday. © AFP/US NAVY/File Daniel Sanford

LONDON (AFP) - Pirates have hijacked a British-flagged cargo ship off the coast of Somalia, the EU's anti-piracy naval force said on Saturday, in the second such attack this year.

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Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard posing at his home in Viby, near Aarhus, Denmark, in 2006. A Somali man was charged Saturday with the attempted murder of Westergaard, whose caricatures of the Muslim prophet Mohammed sparked riots and protests around the world. © AFP/SCANPIX/File Preben Hupfeld

COPENHAGEN (AFP) - A Somali man was charged Saturday with the attempted murder of a Danish cartoonist whose caricatures of the Muslim prophet Mohammed sparked riots and protests around the world.

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Shabab militia patrol Bakara Market in Mogadishu in 2009. Somalia's hardline Shebab insurgents have said they will send fighters to Yemen to help an Al-Qaeda affiliate behind the failed Christmas Day jetliner bombing in its fight against government forces. © AFP Abdurashid Abikar

MOGADISHU (AFP) - Somalia's hardline Shebab insurgents Friday said they will send fighters to Yemen to help an Al-Qaeda affiliate behind the failed Christmas Day jetliner bombing in its fight against government ...

Soldiers patrol in the Zango area of Bauchi in northern Nigeria. Dozens more bodies were recovered after violent clashes between security forces and Islamists in northern Nigeria, bringing the death toll to around 70, a count at a hospital morgue showed. © AFP Pius Utomi Ekpei

BAUCHI, Nigeria (AFP) - Dozens more bodies were recovered after violent clashes between security forces and Islamists in northern Nigeria, bringing the death toll to around 70, a count at a hospital morgue showed on ...