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Corvette HMS Stockholm speeds in front of support vessel HMS Trosso outside the Karlskrona naval base in southern Sweden
21 Mar 2009
Source: Reuters
 
Corvette HMS Stockholm (R) speeds in front of support vessel HMS Trosso outside the Karlskrona naval base in southern Sweden, March 21, 2009. Two Stockholm class corvettes HMS Stockholm and HMS Malmo, accompanied by HMS Trosso, will take part in the anti-piracy EU NAVFOR Somalia (Operation Atalanta) off the Somali coast starting May 15. REUTERS/Paul Madej/Scanpix (SWEDEN POLITICS MILITARY CONFLICT SOCIETY) NO COMMERCIAL SALES. SWEDEN OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN SWEDEN
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A suspected cholera patient lies on the ground as an unidentified woman sits by him in the Wanleweyn district of southern Somalia, April 3, 2009. Acute watery diarrhoea has killed 35 ...




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