Mexican authorities are giving handheld satellite devices to illegals crossing the US-Mexico border. The project, designed to assist Mexican citizens to illegally cross the border, plans to provide 200,000 of the devices.
The Sunday Telegraph quotes Coordinator for the state commission for migrants in Puebla Jaime Obregon as saying: "Our intention is to save lives. There are lots of people looking to cross and we are working with the US authorities to make sure they do not die on the way."
http://www.theconservativevoice.com/article/21612.html
Somali Islamists flee towards Kenya and to the hills
01 January 2007
KISMAYU, Somalia - Somalia's Islamists fled towards Kenya or melted into the southern hills on Monday after abandoning their last stronghold to advancing government forces backed by Ethiopian troops, tanks and planes.
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http://www.peterboroughnow.co.uk/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleID=1951762&SectionID=5055
New rules complicate Islamic ritual
January 01, 2007
MINA, Saudi Arabia – The rituals of Islam's annual hajj pilgrimage are enormously complicated, so it helps to have someone to advise how to do them right: thus the long lines Monday at the ``ask a sheik" booths scattered around the holy sites.
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Islamist fighters offered amnesty
January 1, 2007
MOGADISHU — Fighters belonging to a militant Islamist movement fled into a rugged, forested corner of Somalia from rapidly advancing government forces Monday, and the prime minister offered amnesty if they surrendered.
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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070101.wsomal0101/BNStory/International/home