 Somalia's Islamic militia battled a pocket of resistance in the capital for a second straight day Monday, pounding Mogadishu with machine-gun fire and rocket-propelled grenades a day after 20 people were killed in bloody fighting.Seven people were killed Monday, and the death toll was expected to rise, hospitals reported.The Islamic fighters who wrested Mogadishu from warlords last month were fighting supporters of Abdi Awale Qaybdiid, who refused to disarm after the U.S.-backed secular alliance lost its battle for control of the capital."We have been attacked by the alliance of warlords, and Qaybdiid's militia are the remnants of that alliance, so there is no other option but to fight to the finish," the Islamic fighters' leader, Sheik Hassan Dahir Aweys, told The Associated Press in a telephone interview Monday....
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 Insurance firm challenged on Katrina coverage Couple says company denied claim without proper investigation |
Paul Leonard had taken out homeowner’s insurance long before Katrina pulverized his house, but it was of little consolation when his insurance company blamed the damage on water, not wind.Leonard sued. His lawsuit, set to go to trial Monday, was expected to be the first legal test for insurers who claim their policies don’t cover floods. They contend that Katrina’s storm surge was water pushed by the force of the wind.Leonard, a police lieutenant, and his wife, Julie, claim Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. denied their claim without thoroughly investigating the damage to their house, which is several hundred yards from the Mississippi Sound. The Leonards, who purchased their policy more than a decade ago, also claim that their insurance agent had assured them that they didn’t need to buy flood insurance for their home because their policy would cover all hurricane damage....
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| Tornado touches down in soaked Colo.; teenager rescued from N.M. floods |
A storm packing rain and a tornado moved into southeast Colorado on Sunday as downpours north of Pueblo briefly closed an eight-mile section of Interstate 25.The highway was closed around 5:30 p.m. and reopened about 90 minutes later. Colorado Department of Transportation officials did not immediately have an estimate of how much water was on the road.Meteorologist Makoto Moore said there were reports of 3 to 4 inches of rain across the northern part of Pueblo County, where a tornado touched down. Several buildings were damaged, but Shorter said it wasn't immediately clear if it was due to the tornado or strong winds.The National Weather Service issued flash flood warnings. Meteorologists reported 4 to 6 inches of rain in southeast Cheyenne County near the Kansas line....
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| Russia kills most-wanted warlord |
Russia's most wanted man, Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev, has been killed by the country's special forces, the state security chief has told President Vladimir Putin. FSB chief Nikolai Patrushev said on Monday that Basayev, who claimed responsibility for the 2004 Beslan school attack in which 331 people, half of them children, were killed, was planning an attack to coincide with Russia hosting the G8 summit of world leaders this weekend.CNN's Matthew Chance said the killing was a massive victory for the security services and a huge blow for the rebel leadership.Basayev, together with other Chechen fighters, was killed in Ingushetia, a region neighboring Chechnya, where rebels are battling for independence....
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| 400 workers stranded at Kuala Lumpur airport |
Some 400 people are stranded at Kuala Lumpur's international airport because of travel document irregularities and labour agents failing to meet workers whose employment they have arranged in Malaysia, the country's human rights commission said today.In a crisis that has been going on for more than a year but has only just come to light, most of the stranded people - predominantly manual labourers from Pakistan, Bangladesh, India and Nepal - are waiting up to a fortnight to be collected, the rights commissioner, Siva Subramaniam, told the Guardian today. "Some are so poor they cannot even afford to eat," he said. "So they have to survive on water until their agents turn up to collect them."It is a continuous problem, Mr Siva said, because as soon as some people are collected more arrive and have no way out of the airport. "One person told us that at one point there were more than 600 people stuck," he said....
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| Mass. court: Homosexual marriage amendment can go on ballot |
The same court that made Massachusetts the first state to legalize gay marriage ruled Monday that a proposed constitutional amendment to ban future same-sex marriages can be placed on the ballot, if approved by the Legislature.The ruling was the result of a lawsuit brought by gay-rights supporters who argued that Attorney General Tom Reilly was wrong to approve the question, saying that the state constitution bars any citizen-initiated amendment that seeks to reverse a judicial ruling.In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Judicial Court said the constitution does not bar citizen initiatives from making prospective changes to the constitution, even if that effectively overrules the effect of a prior court decision, because that change would not be a reversal....
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