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Published 11/20/2008 at Yahoo! News: Politics News
Reuters - The United Nations should send peacekeepers to Somalia urgently to stop the strife that is fuelling piracy and is being aggravated by feuding politicians, the African Union's top diplomat said on Thursday.
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