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Somalia: 11 killed in capital bombing

Artillery shells killed at least 11 people in the Somali capital Mogadishu, after rebels fired mortar bombs at the presidential palace. Heavy fighting regularly rocks the port city, where the Western-backed government controls little more than the palace, the airport, sea port and a few streets in between.

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