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Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika speaks at the Supreme Court in Algiers, Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2008. Algeria's president, 72, who led his oil-rich and gas-rich North African nation out of a bloody Islamic insurgency, started clearing the way Wednesday to give himself a third term in office, announcing plans to abolish limits that would have prevented his re-election. Algeria Ends Military Operation; 'Several Hostages Killed'
Algeria's state-run news agency says the military operation at the natural gas complex where Islamic militants seized 41 foreign hostages has ended. But verifiabe information on the fate of... (photo: AP) Voa News
Algeria   Kidnapping   Military Operation   Photos   Wikipedia: In Aménas hostage crisis
A man reads a newspaper headlining "Terrorist attack and kidnapping in In Amenas", at a news stand in Algiers, Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013. Hostages among dead as Algerians blast Islamists from ground and air
Algerian forces launched a brazen air attack on suspected Islamist militants holding scores of foreign employees of a natural gas complex Thursday, killing kidnappers and hostages alike in what... (photo: AP / Ouahab Hebbat) Kansas City Star
Al-qaida   Algeria   Hostages   Photos   Wikipedia: In Aménas hostage crisis
In this Saturday, Nov. 19, 2011 photo, Seif al-Islam is seen after his capture in the custody of revolutionary fighters in Zintan, Libya. Gaddafi's Son Makes His First Court Appearance
Tweet Colonel Gaddafi's son Saif al Islam has appeared in court in Libya for the first time since his capture more than a year ago. He is accused of meeting an International Criminal Court (ICC)... (photo: AP / Ammar El-Darwish) Orange News
International Criminal Court   Libya   Photos   Seif al-Islam   War Crimes   Wikipedia: Saif al-Islam Gaddafi
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe attends an Independence Day parade on the 50th anniversary of Senegal's Independence from colonial power France, in Dakar, Senegal Sunday, April 4, 2010. Mugabe Deputy John Nkomo Dies of Cancer
Zimbabwean Vice President John Nkomo died on Thursday after treatment for cancer in South Africa, President Robert Mugabe said, removing a potential successor to the aging leader who has his own... (photo: AP / Rebecca Blackwell) Voa News
Cancer   John Nkomo   Photos   Robert Mugabe   Wikipedia: John Nkomo   Zimbabwe
Straight-tusked Elephant Greed for ivory killing the Kenya elephants
Both male and female elephants in Africa have increasingly been massacred for their ivory tusks states a 14 year study just revealed by the nonprofit organization Save the Elephants. In Wednesday's... (photo: Public Domain / José-Manuel Benito) The Examiner
Animal   Environment   Kenya   Photos   Wikipedia: Ivory
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