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Fighting malaria as well as AIDS is on First lady Laura

Bush's agenda as she tours Africa. While the former doesn't

grab the same headlines, it far outstrips AIDS as the

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Research Group. The Lee Genealogical Research Support Group at Lee Senior Center will meet at 1 p.m., 5722 Lee Highway. Guest speaker Diane Gatchell will present a slide show on the iconography and types of cemeteries, monuments and memorials dedicated to veterans. No fee; newcomers welcome. Call to register, 703-228-0555.

State Tour. Langston-Brown Senior Centers All Around America series continues with a video tour and discussion about the state of Illinois, at 11 a.m., 2121 N. Culpeper St., Arlington. No fee; newcomers welcome. Call to register, 703-228-5321.

Walking Club. The Walking Club of Arlington for seniors will walk in Kenilworth Garden, Washington, D.C., 9:30 a.m. Cost is $3; newcomers welcome. Group leaves from Culpepper Garden Senior Center, 4435 N. Pershing Drive, 703-228-4403.

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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia—Ethiopia's prime minister said Thursday he is building up the army's capabilities because he fears an imminent attack by Eritrea, which he also accused of arming rebel groups inside his country.

Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, in a routine address to parliament, said the Eritrean government was not cooperating in efforts to end a border dispute between the two countries and that the Ethiopian army needed to be prepared for an attack.

"It is deemed necessary to make the necessary military preparations for deterring a possible Eritrean invasion and to repulse such an invasion should it occur," Meles said.

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MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A roadside bomb killed two soldiers in Somalia's chaotic capital Mogadishu on Thursday, witnesses said, hours after two aid workers were shot dead in an overnight attack in the north of the country.

The incidents were the latest in an escalating wave of guerrilla strikes in the lawless Horn of Africa nation blamed on an ousted hardline Islamist movement.

One woman at the scene of Thursday's blast said a vehicle carrying troops through a northern district of the city was lifted into the air by the powerful explosion. The troops on another truck in the convoy opened fire, she said.

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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia—Ethiopia's prime minister said Thursday he is building up the army's capabilities because he fears an imminent attack by Eritrea, which he also accused of arming rebel groups inside his country.

Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, in a routine address to parliament, said the Eritrean government was not cooperating in efforts to end a border dispute between the two countries and that the Ethiopian army needed to be prepared for an attack.

"It is deemed necessary to make the necessary military preparations for deterring a possible Eritrean invasion and to repulse such an invasion should it occur," Meles said.

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