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More than 10 ethnic minority groups and organisations will perform at the Wetland Park Cultural Festival January 26 to February 1 to celebrate the Lunar New Year and World Wetlands Day 2009. BAIDOA (Reuters) - Hardline Islamist insurgents captured the central town of Baidoa on Monday, an important stronghold of Somalia's fragile government and seat of the national parliament, witnesses said. THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Congolese militia leader Thomas Lubanga trained child soldiers to kill, pillage and rape, a prosecutor told the International Criminal Court at the start of its first war crimes trial on Monday. NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sprint Nextel Corp, the No. 3 U.S. mobile service provider, said it will cut up to 8,000 jobs, or about 14 percent of its workforce, including its chief information officer, as part of a plan to reduce labor costs by $1.2 billion a year. President Obama orders the closing of a controversial detention facility, and U.S. banks face the possibility of nationalization.