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Algerian military launches raid to rescue hostages
CAIRO -- The Algerian military on Thursday launched a raid to retake a natural gas complex from Islamic militants who seized the compound a day earlier and took scores of hostages, including Americans, Britons and Japanese. Conflicting reports of...
Tags: Mali, David Cameron, Government, BP Plc, Energy Resources
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Militants: 35 hostages die in Algerian raid, Americans also reportedly held
ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — Algerian forces raided a remote Sahara gas plant on Thursday in an attempt to free dozens of foreign hostages held by militants with ties to Mali's rebel Islamists, diplomats said. Islamic militants claimed that 35 hostages...
Tags: BBC, Libya, William Hague, France, Radio
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Algerian assault ends crisis, 19 hostages dead
AIN AMENAS, Algeria (AP) — Algerian special forces stormed a natural gas complex in the middle of the Sahara desert on Saturday in a "final assault" that ended a four-day-old hostage crisis, according to the state news agency and two foreign...
Tags: William Hague, North Africa, Armed Conflicts, Upstream Oil and Gas Activities, Criminals
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Dead and missing from siege at Algerian gas plant
At least 81 people have been reported dead, including 32 Islamist militants, after a bloody, four-day hostage situation at Algeria's remote Ain Amenas natural gas plant. Nearly two dozen foreign workers remained unaccounted for late Sunday. Here's the...Tags: Government, Malaysia, National Government, Armed Conflicts, United Kingdom
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Desert siege toll passes 80; bomb squads search
ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — Algerian bomb squads searched a gas refinery laced with mines on Monday, looking for more explosive traps a day after the discovery of more bodies throughout the site raised the toll from the terrorist siege well past 80....
Tags: France, Prisons, Wars and Interventions, Television Industry, Military Equipment
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Algeria: Two Canadians among hostage takers, prime minister says
Two Canadians were among the militants who seized an Algerian gas field and held hundreds of workers hostage last week, Algerian Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal told reporters on Monday, according to the Associated Press and the Canadian Press....
Tags: Mali, Government, Energy Resources, Military Equipment, Politics
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Bolshoi artistic director attacked with acid
MOSCOW — The artistic director of Russia’s famed Bolshoi Ballet was attacked by an assailant who threw acid in his face, police and theater officials said Friday. The assault followed what a colleague said were several weeks of threats and...Tags: Arts and Culture, Entertainment Events, Moscow (Russia), Entertainment, Russia
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Algeria: Accounts emerge as nearly 100 foreigners reported freed
This post has been updated. See the note below for details.PARIS -- The Algerian state news agency Friday reported nearly 100 of 132 foreign hostages and at least 573 Algerians had been freed at the In Amenas gas plant. Algerian television aired footage of rescued hostages hugging in relief. The death toll in...Tags: France, Radio, Television Industry, Radio Industry, Television Stations
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AP IMPACT: Al-Qaida carves out own country in Mali
MOPTI, Mali (AP) — Deep inside caves, in remote desert bases, in the escarpments and cliff faces of northern Mali, Islamic fighters are burrowing into the earth, erecting a formidable set of defenses to protect what has essentially become al-Qaida's...
Tags: France, Elections, Human Rights, Western Africa, Pakistan
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Calls to protest movie mocking Muhammad spread to Algeria, Iran
World NowThe day after outraged Egyptians scaled the walls of the American Embassy and Libyan militants attacked and burned a U.S. consulate, protests and denunciations against an amateur movie mocking the Islamic prophet spread across the region, spurring... -
Chadli Bendjedid dies at 83; former president of Algeria
Chadli Bendjedid, who served as the third president of Algeria before being overthrown in a bloodless military coup in 1992 as he was phasing in democratic reforms, died Saturday. He was 83. Bendjedid died at a military hospital in Algiers, according...
Tags: France, Coup d'Etat, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Remarkable Woman: Carol Abraczinskas
Carol Abraczinskas leads a double life. She's got her steady — and fascinating — day job as a scientific illustrator, sketching dinosaur fossils for the University of Chicago's biology and anatomy department. And then there's that other...
Tags: Justice System, North Africa, University of Chicago, FBI, Crime, Law and Justice
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