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Somalia: Pirates

NAIROBI, Kenya — Somali pirates freed a Thai fishing vessel they held for more than four months after receiving a ransom, the European Union Naval Force said Sunday, and French officials said their navy seized 11 suspected pirates elsewhere along Somalia's coast. The announcement from the French Defense Ministry brings the three-day take to a record 35 for the EU's piracy-fighting operation in the region.

The ministry said the frigate Nivose — backed by the Italian logistics support ship Etna and a Spanish maritime patrol aircraft — took part in the capture in an unspecified part of the Indian Ocean off Somalia's coast.

The ministry said in a statement the EU forces used helicopters and fired warning shots to stop and capture the "mother ship" and two accompanying skiffs of the suspected pirates on Sunday.

Mexico: Police diet

MEXICO CITY — Mexico City's police department has introduced a new lower-calorie menu in cafeterias serving its 70,000-member force after finding out that almost three-quarters of officers are overweight. Hungry cops will now get 2,495 calories per day, 500 fewer than in previous servings, along with a healthy portion of vegetables. The three-meal-a-day menu was announced Sunday.

Togo: Vote protest

LOME, Togo (AP) — Togo's top opposition candidate was pelted with tear gas for a second time Sunday as he vowed to take to the streets every day in protest of what he says was an election rigged to favor the son of the country's longtime dictator.

"I am ready to die," opposition leader Jean-Pierre Fabre said a few minutes before walking outside the party's headquarters before a column of anti-riot police. "We're going to make them exhaust their stock of tear gas. We cannot let this go on."

Provisional results released late Saturday show Fabre lost to current President Faure Gnassingbe, whose 1.2 million votes gave him 60.9 percent of the vote. Fabre received 692,584 votes, or 33.9 percent.

Darfur: Soldiers safe

CAIRO — The U.N.-African Union mission in Darfur says two of its peacekeepers who went missing after an ambush on their patrol last week have safely returned to base. The two soldiers were declared missing after gunmen attacked their convoy in south Darfur on Friday, seizing some 60 peacekeepers and their vehicles. UNAMID says the two escaped capture. The seized peacekeepers were released by the gunmen Saturday.