The French engineer, Francis Collomp, who was held hostage for 11 months by Islamist militants in Nigeria arrived home Monday, after a dramatic escape described as worthy of an action thriller. The plane carrying Collomp, accompanied by France’s Foreign Minister, Laurent Fabius, landed early Monday at a military airport outside Paris. |
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The wife of an Australian Greenpeace activist under arrest in Russia over a protest against oil drilling in the Arctic has called for more intervention from the Australian government to secure his freedom. |
Former Co-op Bank chairman Paul Flowers is suspended by Labour for bringing the party into disrepute after he was reportedly caught buying and using illegal drugs. |
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) The wife of an Australian Greenpeace activist under arrest in Russia over a protest against oil drilling in the Arctic has called for more intervention from the Australian government to secure his freedom.A... |
Pacific Islands Development Program, East-West Center With Support From Center for Pacific Islands Studies, University of Hawai‘i
Filipinos In Am. Samoa Raises $34,000 For Haiyan Relief Besides cash, generous donations of clothing and toys made. WELLINGTON, New Zealand (Radio New Zealand International, Nov. |
In the gloom of a hilltop cave in Nigeria where she was held captive, Hajja had a knife pressed to her throat by a man |
ABUJA (Reuters) - In the gloom of a hilltop cave in Nigeria where she was held captive, Hajja had a knife pressed to her throat by a man who gave her a choice - convert to Islam or die. Two gunmen from Boko Haram had seized the Christian teenager in July as she picked corn near her village in the.... |
PM says relationship with Indonesia is strong but has suffered because of spying row. |
On May 23, shortly after wrapping up negotiations on the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) 958- million-dollar loan – its second in three years – to keep Jamaica out of default, the fund’s mission chief in the country, Jan Kees Martijn, set out to visit Croydon, a former plantation settlement in.... |
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott continues to come under fire for refusing to address claims that phone belonging to the Indonesian president and other officials were spied on. |
What do the Bible, "The Hunger Games" and "Fifty Shades of Grey" have in common? All three are works of fiction, according to the booksellers at Costco. Pastor Caleb Kaltenbach made that shocking discovery last Friday as he was shopping for a present for his wife at a Costco in Simi Valley, Calif. |
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