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Gaza Truce Talks On Amid Outcry Over Aid Workers' Death
American, Israeli, and Hamas negotiators are expected in Cairo over the weekend in a renewed push for a ceasefire and hostage release deal in a war that reaches the half-year mark on Sunday.
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US Names Operation To Kill Al-Baghdadi In Honour Of Woman Killed By ISIS
The US special forces raid targeting ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was named for Kayla Mueller, a young aid worker who was one of several Americans killed while being held by the ISIS.
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US Aid Worker Arrested For Allegedly Molesting Magistrate In Meghalaya
An American aid worker was arrested for allegedly molesting a judicial magistrate at her home, police said on Saturday.
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Wife Of ISIS Leader Charged In Death Of American: US Justice Department
The wife of a deceased ISIS leader was charged on Monday in federal court in Virginia with conspiracy in the death of American aid worker Kayla Mueller who was killed a year ago while being held hostage in Syria by the militant group, the U.S. Justice Department said.
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US House Honors Dead Aid Worker Held by Islamic State
Somber US lawmakers stood with heads bowed Wednesday during a moment of silence for American aid worker Kayla Mueller, who was held hostage by Islamic State extremists and died.
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Islamic State Hostage Death Confirmed by Family and White House
The parents of Kayla Mueller, the American aid worker abducted in 2013 by the Islamic State, issued a statement on Tuesday confirming her death, four days after the militant group claimed she had been killed in a Jordanian airstrike.
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Islamic State 'Sentenced' US Hostage to Death Last Year: Activist
The young American hostage who Islamic State says was killed in a Jordanian air strike was condemned to death by the militant group last year, according to an American Muslim activist.
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Frenchman Thought Among Killers in Islamic State Beheadings
A young Frenchman is believed to be among the killers on an Islamic State propaganda video showing a beheaded American aid worker and the deaths of more than a dozen Syrian soldiers, France's top security official said on Monday.
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'Pure Evil' As Islamic State Beheads US Aid Worker Peter Kassig
US President Barack Obama condemned as "pure evil" the Islamic State's beheading of American aid worker Peter Kassig after the group released a video showing his body on Sunday.
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Parents of American Held by Islamic State Release Letter, Photos
The parents of an US aid worker held hostage by Islamic State militants on Sunday released photographs of their son and parts of a letter he wrote them from captivity in which he says he is scared to die but at peace with his belief.
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US Has Identified Masked Man in Beheading Videos
The US believes it has identified the British-accented masked man in the videos depicting the beheadings of two American journalists and a British aid worker, the FBI director says.
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Britain Mourns Slain Hostage; Another Under Threat
British aid worker David Haines has been beheaded - like two American journalists before him - and the Islamic State group is threatening to kill a fourth captive.
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Ebola Survivor Gives Blood to ill American
A survivor of Ebola has donated blood to an American aid worker infected with the disease, and doctors treating him at a Nebraska hospital say he has responded well to the aggressive treatment.
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A Mother's Appeal as Fears Mount for Syria Hostages
The mother of a US hostage who has been threatened with death by jihadist militants pleaded for his life on Wednesday amid mounting fears for Americans captured in Syria.
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American Woman is Being Held Hostage in Syria
The Islamic State militant group is holding hostage a young American woman who was doing humanitarian aid work in Syria, a family representative said. The 26-year-old woman is the third American known to have been kidnapped by the radical group.
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Gaza Truce Talks On Amid Outcry Over Aid Workers' Death
American, Israeli, and Hamas negotiators are expected in Cairo over the weekend in a renewed push for a ceasefire and hostage release deal in a war that reaches the half-year mark on Sunday.
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US Names Operation To Kill Al-Baghdadi In Honour Of Woman Killed By ISIS
The US special forces raid targeting ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was named for Kayla Mueller, a young aid worker who was one of several Americans killed while being held by the ISIS.
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US Aid Worker Arrested For Allegedly Molesting Magistrate In Meghalaya
An American aid worker was arrested for allegedly molesting a judicial magistrate at her home, police said on Saturday.
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Wife Of ISIS Leader Charged In Death Of American: US Justice Department
The wife of a deceased ISIS leader was charged on Monday in federal court in Virginia with conspiracy in the death of American aid worker Kayla Mueller who was killed a year ago while being held hostage in Syria by the militant group, the U.S. Justice Department said.
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US House Honors Dead Aid Worker Held by Islamic State
Somber US lawmakers stood with heads bowed Wednesday during a moment of silence for American aid worker Kayla Mueller, who was held hostage by Islamic State extremists and died.
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Islamic State Hostage Death Confirmed by Family and White House
The parents of Kayla Mueller, the American aid worker abducted in 2013 by the Islamic State, issued a statement on Tuesday confirming her death, four days after the militant group claimed she had been killed in a Jordanian airstrike.
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Islamic State 'Sentenced' US Hostage to Death Last Year: Activist
The young American hostage who Islamic State says was killed in a Jordanian air strike was condemned to death by the militant group last year, according to an American Muslim activist.
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Frenchman Thought Among Killers in Islamic State Beheadings
A young Frenchman is believed to be among the killers on an Islamic State propaganda video showing a beheaded American aid worker and the deaths of more than a dozen Syrian soldiers, France's top security official said on Monday.
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'Pure Evil' As Islamic State Beheads US Aid Worker Peter Kassig
US President Barack Obama condemned as "pure evil" the Islamic State's beheading of American aid worker Peter Kassig after the group released a video showing his body on Sunday.
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Parents of American Held by Islamic State Release Letter, Photos
The parents of an US aid worker held hostage by Islamic State militants on Sunday released photographs of their son and parts of a letter he wrote them from captivity in which he says he is scared to die but at peace with his belief.
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US Has Identified Masked Man in Beheading Videos
The US believes it has identified the British-accented masked man in the videos depicting the beheadings of two American journalists and a British aid worker, the FBI director says.
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Britain Mourns Slain Hostage; Another Under Threat
British aid worker David Haines has been beheaded - like two American journalists before him - and the Islamic State group is threatening to kill a fourth captive.
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Ebola Survivor Gives Blood to ill American
A survivor of Ebola has donated blood to an American aid worker infected with the disease, and doctors treating him at a Nebraska hospital say he has responded well to the aggressive treatment.
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A Mother's Appeal as Fears Mount for Syria Hostages
The mother of a US hostage who has been threatened with death by jihadist militants pleaded for his life on Wednesday amid mounting fears for Americans captured in Syria.
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American Woman is Being Held Hostage in Syria
The Islamic State militant group is holding hostage a young American woman who was doing humanitarian aid work in Syria, a family representative said. The 26-year-old woman is the third American known to have been kidnapped by the radical group.
