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Loyalist forces pushed al Qaeda out of parts of Aden on
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Wednesday in a new drive against the jihadists in Yemens second city, where the internationally recognised government is based, military sources said. A fighter loyal to Yemen s exiled President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi checks his mobile as he stands guard at a military site near the country s third-largest city Taez. AFP Photo Troops and militia retook the central prison and deployed on main roads across the Mansura residential district after a three-hour gun battle with the jihadists, the sources said. There was no immediate word on casualties. The Sunni extremists of al Qaeda have exploited conflict between the government and Shia rebels who overran the capital Sanaa in September 2014 to expand their control in the south. A Saudi-led coalition, which intervened in support o
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f President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi when he fled into exile in March last year, concentrated its firepower on pushing the rebels and their allies out of Aden and neighbouring southern provinces, and the jihadists took advantage. But in recent days, the coalition has carried out a series of air strikes against al Qaeda in cities it has seized including Hadramawt provincial capital Mukalla and Abyan provincial capital Zinjibar. Five militants were killed and three wounded in Mondays strikes on Mukalla, a major port city that the jihadists seized last April, provincial officials told AFP. Zinjibar residents told AF
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Tens of thousands of Roman Catholics on a gruelling 1,500-year-old tra
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ditional pilgrimage up Ireland s holiest mountain were urged on Saturday to slow the pace of life in the hectic Celtic Tiger economy. HT Image The world in which we live has set an impossible pace, Archbishop Michael Neary said in his homily at the beginning of the annual climb up Croagh Patrick mountain in County Mayo in the west of Ireland. We are rushed from infancy to adolescence and then through those special years to an ill-timed adulthood, he said in his message to an estimated 30,000 pilgrims expected to m
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ake the climb over the weekend. We live in the age of the instant, where there is no joy in the anticipation and no time to value the achievement. Neary urged the pilgrims to take a message from the mountain and Ireland s patron saint Patrick to discover the need to reflect, to slow down the pace of life, to wonder at the beauty of the Earth, and to really appreciate the value of our friends. Neary, who will hold a service on the summit on Sunday, said pilgrims should also remember the country s new immigrant community and those who struggle with steeper slopes of hunger, exile, famine and separation. The tradition of climbing the 764-metre 2510-feet high mountain on the last Sunday in July -- known as Reek Sunday -- stretches back to 441 AD. It was then that Saint Patrick re
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