Authorities in Mali have confirmed the release of an elderly French aid worker, two Italian captives and a top Malian politician, all believed to have been held by jihadists. A tweet on Thursday said that French woman Sophie Pétronin, 75, and Soumaïla Cissé, 70, were on their way to the capital Bamako. |
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By Paul Lorgerie and Tiemoko Diallo. BAMAKO (Reuters) - Kidnapped Malian politician Soumaila Cisse, French aid worker Sophie Petronin and two Italians were freed on Thursday, Mali's presidency said, after lengthy periods in the hands of Islamist insurgents. |
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From her perch inside a small vestibule at the Mexican Consulate in St. Paul — its ventanilla de salud, window of health — Rosalinda Alle does it all. “I help people with resources, health education, preventative care, help them get tested for diabetes and blood pressure,” said Alle, a community health worker for St. |
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BAMAKO (Reuters) - Kidnapped Malian politician Soumaila Cisse, French aid worker Sophie Petronin and two Italians were freed on Thursday, Mali’s presidency said, after lengthy periods in the hands of Islamist insurgents. Their release follows a tense few days as reports the Malian authorities had.... |
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As the hard-partying poster girls of the 1990s, ladettes Sara Cox and Zoe Ball seemed inseparable. There have been rumours in recent years that the once wild pair had “drifted apart” – but Sara’s having none of it, insisting there’s still a strong bond between the BBC Radio 2 presenters. |
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Tropical Weather Louisiana The Rev. Ivory Williams, Sr. and Chris Welch board up the windows of St. John Baptist Church while prepping for Hurricane Delta on Thursday, Oct. 8, 2020, in Charenton, La. (Brad Kemp/The Advocate via AP) (Brad Kemp) October 08, 2020 at 3:59 pm CDT By By REBECCA SANTANA.... |
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Several people were injured, including foreign journalists, in two shelling attacks on a cathedral in the town of Shusha, in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan, on October 8, according to agency reports and the Armenian government. Agence France-Presse and Radio Free Europe/Radio.... |
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Prime Minister Tuilaepa Dr. Sailele Malielegaoi said the Government will not extend the deadline for voter registration, after hundreds were left locked outside the Office of the Electoral Commission on Thursday. Thursday was the final day for voters to complete their compulsory voter registration.... |
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In a tweet that links to an article about Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden's support for abortion without restrictions, Catholic Bishop Joseph Strickland, head of the diocese of Tyler, Texas, said that abortion is not "health care" and that killing a child in the womb by "dismemberment" is "evil. |
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Christian denominations should stick to serving the Lord instead of involving themselves in politics, Prime Minister Tuilaepa Dr. Sailele Malielegaoi says. “If anything [church representatives] should go directly to their respective M.P. instead of coming together as a congregation because when I.... |
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YEREVAN/BAKU -- Armenia has accused Azerbaijan of shelling a historic cathedral in territory controlled by ethnic-Armenian forces in Nagorno-Karabakh as fighting over the breakaway Azerbaijani region continues to rage. Yerevan's state-run Armenian Unified Infocenter reported that the Holy Savior.... |
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