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SOMALIA
Fighting in capital kills at least 24
Mortar rounds fired by Islamist fighters slammed into Somalia's main airport as the president was boarding a plane Thursday, sparking battles that killed at least 24 people and wounded 60 when return fire struck residential areas and a market, officials said.
President Sharif Ahmed was unhurt and his plane took off safely, police said, but civilian deaths are fueling a growing anger toward African Union peacekeeping forces stationed in the capital, Mogadishu, to help protect the U.N.-backed government.
The city endures near-daily bloodshed as a powerful insurgent group with links to al-Qaeda tries to overthrow the fragile government and push out 5,000 A.U. peacekeepers.
Both sides have been accused of indiscriminate shelling.
-- Associated Press
NORTHERN IRELAND
Bomb explodes at British army base
A bomb exploded at a British army base in Northern Ireland early Thursday, the latest reminder that the dissident republicans blamed for the attack are still seeking to derail the region's decade-old peace agreement.
Police said the bomb was apparently thrown over the gate of a Territorial Army base in North Belfast about 1 a.m. The area was sprayed with shrapnel, but no one was injured.
