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  Update: Former PM Dhunul has also been killed in the blasts. Update: another three explosions have rocked the regional capital as power has been cut off in several neighborhoods and gunfire can be heard. The Honorable Aamina Abdi Mohamed was killed moments ago in a suicide explosion in Beledweyne town, multiple reporters and local news sources are saying. Apparently, the blast took place...

At least 10 people are dead after an Al-Shabaab VBIED targeted a UN peacekeeping convoy in Mogadishu, Somalia. Nine others were also wounded by the blast, which destroyed a nearby building. Al-Shabaab has been designated as a terrorist organization by Australia, Canada, Malaysia, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, and the United States. As of June 2012, the U.S. State Department had open...