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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton fell and broke her elbow on Wednesday while en route to the White House but will resume her full duties soon as the top U.S.

Hardline Islamist insurgents killed Somalia’s security minister and at least 24 other people on Thursday in the deadliest suicide bomb attack yet in the Horn of Africa nation, officials said.

Security Minister Omar Hashi Aden was a key player in the government offensive against Islamist rebels who control much of southern Somalia and want to impose a strict version of Islamic law in the Horn of Africa nation.

Insurgent group al Shabaab, which has links to al Qaeda, stepped up their attacks in early May to try to oust President Sheikh Sharif Ahmed, but neither side has delivered a knockout blow and clashes have killed about 300 people since then.

Western nations, some of Somalia’s neighbors and the government fear that if the chaos persists, more foreign fighters coming to wage holy war will be sucked into the Horn of Africa nation, increasing risks to the region.

“Al Qaeda considers Somalia a strategic place.

Iraqi militants warned Ameer they would kill him for working with the U.S. military. Then he received a more chilling death threat — for being gay — so he sold his home in Baghdad and fled to Turkey.

Now the 28-year-old from a middle class family shares a small apartment in Istanbul with five other gay Iraqi men, exiles from a wave of intolerance, and says for the first time in his life he can express his sexual orientation in public.

Homosexuality is banned almost everywhere in the Middle East, but conditions for gays and lesbians in Iraq have become particularly dangerous since the rise of religious militias after U.S.-led forces removed Saddam Hussein six years ago.

“I could be tracked down and killed if I would say I am gay,” Ameer told Reuters.

Somali Security Minister Omar Hashi Aden was among at least 50 people killed in a suicide-bombing that the al-Shabaab Islamist group, accused by the U.S.