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More Than 70 Killed As Tunnel Collapses At Gold Mine Site In Mali: Report
More than 70 people have been killed after a tunnel collapsed at a Malian gold mining site last week, local sources told AFP Wednesday, the latest disaster in a region prone to mining accidents.
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40 People Killed, 9 Soldiers Injured In Spate Of Attacks In Central Mali
Forty people, including nine soldiers, have been killed in a spate of attacks in central Mali, authorities said Friday, with most of the deaths caused by inter-ethnic violence in the deeply troubled region.
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Father Of Rescued Paris Child Was On Street To Play Pokemon Go: Officials
The family of the young boy saved by "Spiderman" Mamoudou Gassama in a daring rescue that won him global acclaim and a promise of French citizenship has thanked the Malian youth for his quick thinking.
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Kidnapped For Marriage, Mali Pupils Join Forces To Save Classmates
When Fatmata was kidnapped from a market in Mali last year, she was scared for her life. When the Malian schoolgirl realised she would be forced to marry her captor, she feared for her future.
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Trial To Open Of Malian Jihadist Accused Of Timbuktu Attacks
History is set to be made today at the world's only permanent war crimes court when an alleged Malian jihadist is due to plead guilty to attacking the fabled city of Timbuktu.
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Mali Seizes $6 Million Of Cannabis On New Drug Route
Malian customs officials have made one of the country's biggest ever drug seizures, impounding 2.1 tonnes of cannabis detected along a new smuggling route that stretches down the west African coast.
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High-Ranking Terrorist Arrested: Mali Security Sources
Malian special forces have arrested a suspected terrorist leader in the south of the country, security sources said on Sunday.
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Mali Court Jails Men Who Beat Up Former Interim President
A Malian court has sentenced two men to five years in jail for beating up Mali's former interim president, Dioncounda Traore, during the occupation of his palace in May 2012 by protesters demanding he resign, the Justice Minister said on Wednesday.
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Gunmen Attack UN Base, Army Checkpoint In Mali's Timbuktu: Sources
Unknown assailants attacked a UN peacekeeping base and a Malian army checkpoint on the outskirts of Mali's northern city of Timbuktu early on Friday, residents and military sources said.
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Gunman Kills 3 At Christian Radio Station In Mali
A gunman killed three people outside a Christian radio station in the Malian city of Timbuktu overnight, local officials said today.
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12 Air France Personnel at Mali Siege Hotel 'Are Safe': Airline
Twelve Air France employees who were staying at the Radisson Blu hotel in Mali's capital Bamako when it was stormed by gunmen today are in a "safe place", the company said.
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Hostage Freed From Mali Hotel Says Attackers Spoke English
A famous Guinean singer who was among 170 people taken hostage on Friday by Islamist gunmen in the Radisson Blu hotel in Mali's capital, Bamako, said he heard attackers in the next room speaking English.
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Mali Security Forces Evacuate Around a Dozen Hostages From Hotel: Ministry
Malian security services have evacuated around a dozen hostages from the luxury Radisson Blu hotel in the capital Bamako where gunmen took 170 people hostage today, a security ministry spokesman told AFP.
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Mali Hotel Siege: All 20 Indians in Building Evacuated, Says Government
Gunmen went on a shooting rampage at the luxury Radisson Blu hotel in Mali's capital Bamako today, seizing 170 guests and staff in an ongoing hostage-taking, the hotel chain said. At least three hostages have been killed, said Mali's security ministry.
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Mali Hotel Attack Claimed by Fighters Linked to Mokhtar Belmokhtar
A deadly hostage drama at a Mali hotel in which 13 people died -- including five UN workers -- was claimed today by fighters linked to the notorious one-eyed Algerian jihadi leader Mokhtar Belmokhtar.
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More Than 70 Killed As Tunnel Collapses At Gold Mine Site In Mali: Report
More than 70 people have been killed after a tunnel collapsed at a Malian gold mining site last week, local sources told AFP Wednesday, the latest disaster in a region prone to mining accidents.
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40 People Killed, 9 Soldiers Injured In Spate Of Attacks In Central Mali
Forty people, including nine soldiers, have been killed in a spate of attacks in central Mali, authorities said Friday, with most of the deaths caused by inter-ethnic violence in the deeply troubled region.
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Father Of Rescued Paris Child Was On Street To Play Pokemon Go: Officials
The family of the young boy saved by "Spiderman" Mamoudou Gassama in a daring rescue that won him global acclaim and a promise of French citizenship has thanked the Malian youth for his quick thinking.
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Kidnapped For Marriage, Mali Pupils Join Forces To Save Classmates
When Fatmata was kidnapped from a market in Mali last year, she was scared for her life. When the Malian schoolgirl realised she would be forced to marry her captor, she feared for her future.
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Trial To Open Of Malian Jihadist Accused Of Timbuktu Attacks
History is set to be made today at the world's only permanent war crimes court when an alleged Malian jihadist is due to plead guilty to attacking the fabled city of Timbuktu.
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Mali Seizes $6 Million Of Cannabis On New Drug Route
Malian customs officials have made one of the country's biggest ever drug seizures, impounding 2.1 tonnes of cannabis detected along a new smuggling route that stretches down the west African coast.
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High-Ranking Terrorist Arrested: Mali Security Sources
Malian special forces have arrested a suspected terrorist leader in the south of the country, security sources said on Sunday.
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Mali Court Jails Men Who Beat Up Former Interim President
A Malian court has sentenced two men to five years in jail for beating up Mali's former interim president, Dioncounda Traore, during the occupation of his palace in May 2012 by protesters demanding he resign, the Justice Minister said on Wednesday.
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Gunmen Attack UN Base, Army Checkpoint In Mali's Timbuktu: Sources
Unknown assailants attacked a UN peacekeeping base and a Malian army checkpoint on the outskirts of Mali's northern city of Timbuktu early on Friday, residents and military sources said.
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Gunman Kills 3 At Christian Radio Station In Mali
A gunman killed three people outside a Christian radio station in the Malian city of Timbuktu overnight, local officials said today.
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12 Air France Personnel at Mali Siege Hotel 'Are Safe': Airline
Twelve Air France employees who were staying at the Radisson Blu hotel in Mali's capital Bamako when it was stormed by gunmen today are in a "safe place", the company said.
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Hostage Freed From Mali Hotel Says Attackers Spoke English
A famous Guinean singer who was among 170 people taken hostage on Friday by Islamist gunmen in the Radisson Blu hotel in Mali's capital, Bamako, said he heard attackers in the next room speaking English.
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Mali Security Forces Evacuate Around a Dozen Hostages From Hotel: Ministry
Malian security services have evacuated around a dozen hostages from the luxury Radisson Blu hotel in the capital Bamako where gunmen took 170 people hostage today, a security ministry spokesman told AFP.
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Mali Hotel Siege: All 20 Indians in Building Evacuated, Says Government
Gunmen went on a shooting rampage at the luxury Radisson Blu hotel in Mali's capital Bamako today, seizing 170 guests and staff in an ongoing hostage-taking, the hotel chain said. At least three hostages have been killed, said Mali's security ministry.
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Mali Hotel Attack Claimed by Fighters Linked to Mokhtar Belmokhtar
A deadly hostage drama at a Mali hotel in which 13 people died -- including five UN workers -- was claimed today by fighters linked to the notorious one-eyed Algerian jihadi leader Mokhtar Belmokhtar.
