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| Ten Chinese workers among 27 hostages freed in Cameroon | | | By Anne Mireille Nzouankeu YAOUNDE (Reuters) - Twenty-seven hostages seized by militant group Boko Haram in Cameroon in May and July have been released, including 10 Chinese workers and the wife of Cameroon's vice-prime minister, authorities said on Saturday. The freed hostages were flown early on Saturday from the Far North region to the capital, where they are being treated in hospital, Minister of Communications and government spokesman Issa Tchiroma Bakary told Reuters. "You can imagine that after the ordeal they are very happy to be released and very relieved. But they are very weak. ... |
| Suicide bomber kills 11 in market north of Baghdad | | | BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide bomber detonated his explosives belt in a market north of Baghdad on Saturday, killing 11 people and wounding 21 others, medical and police officials said. The attack took place about 28 km (17 miles) north of the capital, between the towns of Tarmiyah and Mishahda. The area has been the scene of clashes between Iraqi forces and Islamic State (IS) fighters, who have taken control of large sections of northern and western Iraq this year. In other violence, four Iraqi soldiers died in a friendly-fire incident in the town of Udaim, 90 km northeast of Baghdad. ... |
| London mayor says UK spies monitoring thousands of terrorism suspects | |  LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's security services are monitoring thousands of terrorism suspects in London and are involved in operations on a daily basis, the capital's mayor Boris Johnson said in an interview published on Saturday. "In London we're very, very vigilant and very, very concerned," mayor Johnson told the Daily Telegraph newspaper. ...
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| China sentences two cult members to death for McDonald's murder | | | BEIJING (Reuters) - China on Saturday sentenced two members of a banned religious cult - a father and daughter - to death for the murder in a McDonald's restaurant of a woman who refused an apparent attempt by the group to recruit her, state media said. The 37-year-old woman, surnamed Wu, was attacked in May in the eastern province of Shandong by members of Quannengshen, the Church of Almighty God, which had preached that a global apocalypse would take place in 2012. ... |
| Actress Amanda Bynes placed in psychiatric care - family lawyer | |  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Troubled former teen star Amanda Bynes has been placed in involuntary psychiatric care, her family's attorney said on Friday. Bynes, 28, who has become known in recent years more for her legal woes and bizarre public behavior than her acting, was placed under so-called involuntary psychiatric hold after arriving in Los Angeles, her family's attorney Tamar Arminak said. Under Californian law a person may be detained for mental health evaluation for up to 72 hours. ...
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| Ten Chinese workers among 27 hostages freed in Cameroon - presidency | | | YAOUNDE (Reuters) - Twenty-seven hostages seized by suspected militants from Boko Haram in Cameroon this year, including 10 Chinese workers, have been released, the Cameroon presidency said on Saturday. The Chinese workers were seized in May near the town of Waza, 20 km (12 miles) from the Nigerian border. The others freed include the wife of Cameroon's vice-prime minister who was seized in July, the presidency said. ... |
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