Monday, January 21, 2013

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Algeria: 7 hostages, 11 militants dead after raid
CAPTION CORRECTION, CORRECTS TO THE CITY OF AMENAS, ALGERIA, NOT THE AMENAS GAS FIELD, WHICH IS 45 KM FROM THE CITY AND NOT VISIBLE IN THIS IMAGE - This Oct. 8, 2012 satellite image provided by DigitalGlobe shows the city of Amenas, Algeria. At the Amenas Gas Field, 45 km from the city and not shown in this image, Algerian special forces launched a rescue operation Thursday and freed foreign hostages held by al-Qaida-linked militants, but estimates for the number of    dead varied wildly from four to dozens. (AP Photo/DigitalGlobe)AIN AMENAS, Algeria (AP) -- Algeria's special forces stormed a natural gas complex in the middle of the Sahara desert in a final assault Saturday, killing 11 militants, but not before they in turn killed seven hostages, the state news agency reported.


West African leaders gather for Mali summit
Malian soldiers patrols in a street of Niono, Mali, some 270 kms (180 miles) north of Bamako, Friday, Jan. 18, 2013. French troops encircled a key Malian town on Friday to stop radical Islamists from striking closer to the capital, a French official said. The move to surround Diabaly came as French and Malian authorities said they had retaken Konna, the central city whose capture prompted the French military intervention last week. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus   )BAMAKO, Mali (AP) -- West African leaders headed to a special Mali summit in Ivory Coast on Saturday to discuss how to step up their role as the French-led military intervention to oust Islamic extremists from power entered its second week.


Stopping child labor: There's an app for that
Kids at stoplights offering to wipe a windshield for a few coins, or little ones hawking goods at produce markets: In much of the developing world, it's common to see children as young as eight or nine hard at work.


Stopping child labor: There's an app for that
Kids at stoplights offering to wipe a windshield for a few coins, or little ones hawking goods at produce markets: In much of the developing world, it's common to see children as young as eight or nine hard at work.


South Africa: vets struggle to treat hurt rhinos
A mural painted on a suburban wall in Johannesburg, South Africa calls for the halt to rhino poaching, Friday, Dec. 18, 2013 in a bid to save the species from extinction due to killings for the rhinos horn. Veterinarians are racing to learn more about rhino anatomy so they can swiftly treat survivors of attacks by poachers whose arsenal has included assault rifles, high-caliber weapons that can fell a rhino with a single shot and drug-tipped    darts that knock it out. The big five game animals referred to in the mural as the JOHANNESBURG (AP) -- A high-value target survives two attempts on her life. After recovering from multiple gunshot wounds, s he is secretly moved to an undisclosed location in hopes that the killers won't track her down again.


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