Mauritania frees 8 after embassy attack
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Mauritanian authorities have released all eight people who had been detained after an attack on the Israeli Embassy earlier this month for lack of evidence, officials said Monday.
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Four members of a French family were killed by gunmen during a robbery in eastern Mauritania Monday, police said.
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Security agents broke up a group planning terrorist attacks on tourist sites and government facilities, arresting 56 people who included soldiers and the wives of two pilots at the state airline, the Interior Ministry said yesterday. The sweep was the latest by Morocco's government in an antiterror campaign that began after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in ...
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Gunmen opened fire on the Israeli embassy in Mauritania on Friday, wounding three bystanders including a French woman, days after anti-Israeli protests calling for the government to sever diplomatic ties.
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A powerful car bomb has exploded outside the Australian embassy in Jakarta, killing at least eight people and wounding more than 130 in an attack
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Rwanda on Monday released 8,000 prisoners accused of involvement in the country's 1994 genocide, prompting anger from survivors of the slaughter who fear new ethnic killings.
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Rwanda on Monday released 8,000  prisoners accused of involvement in the country's 1994  genocide, prompting anger from survivors of the slaughter who  fear new ethnic killings.
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Mauritania's interior minister blamed a terrorist sleeper cell Wednesday for the Christmas Eve killing of four French family members visiting the African country.
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The Somali government on Tuesday freed a senior U.N. food aid official who had been held for nearly a week after dozens of intelligence officers stormed the world body's compound in Mogadishu.
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Four French tourists kidnapped in Yemen were freed Monday after more than two weeks in captivity, the French foreign minister said.
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An Air Mauritania Boeing 737 passenger plane hijacked on an internal flight has flown to the Spanish Canary Islands after stopping for fuel in the Western Sahara, Mauritanian officials said.
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Passengers on a hijacked Air Mauritania plane ended the ordeal when they stormed the cockpit and beat up the lone gunman after the aircraft landed in Spain's Canary Islands on Thursday night, Spanish police said.
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BAGHDAD : An Iranian diplomat was freed after a 55-day hostage ordeal at the hands of the same Islamic militant group which is holding two French newsmen, as 12 people were killed in fresh Iraq violence.
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KABUL -- Three Afghan employees of a French aid organization, who had been held hostage for seven weeks by Taliban insurgents, were freed unharmed after local residents intervened, the governor of Nimruz Province, Ghulam Dastagir Azad, said yesterday. The three men were kidnapped along with two French aid workers on April 3. They had been working on a project for ...
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Unidentified gunmen open fire on the Israeli embassy in Mauritania, witnesses and officials say.
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A bomb explosion killed eight people  near an Algerian military barracks on Wednesday in the  politically restive Kabylie region east of Algiers, residents  said.
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Prosecutors charged three Mauritanian men Sunday with belonging to an al-Qaida-linked terror organization and murdering four French tourists who were gunned down on a roadside in this Islamic nation in December.