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MADRID March 13, 2010 - Al Qaeda had kidnapped three Spanish hostages in Mauritania in November. It released one of them - Spanish aid worker, Alicia Gamez, earlier this week.
To free the other two, it wants a $5 million ransom and the release of imprisoned Islamist fighters. Newspaper El Pais said this, based on its sources of information.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE Feb 27, 2010 Laura Silsby and Charisa Coulter, the two U.S. missionaries still in jail in Haiti will not be freed at least until Tuesday.
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BANGKOK Feb 26, 2010 Thailand’s Supreme Court today seized $1.4 billion worth of assets belonging to former premier Thaksin Shinawatra’s family. This leaves about $900 million untouched. The decision could make some anti-government groups happy.
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ABU DHABI Feb 18, 2010 The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) is an international body fighting money laundering and provision of funds to terrorists. It is made up of governments and regional organisations.
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JAKARTA Feb 11, 2010 Antasari Azhar, Indonesia’s former anti-graft chief was today sentenced to 18 years in jail for his role in the murder of Nasrudin Zulkarnaen, a businessman.
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AMSTERDAM Feb 10, 2010 A pack of cocaine was found hidden among 20,000 roses from Latin America at Amsterdam airport, Dutch authorities said on Wednesday.
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BEIJING Feb 8, 2010 Chinese inspectors have shut dairy firms in the northwest after they found contaminated milk powder there. They seized 72 tonnes of milk powder tainted with melamine.
Melamine is a compound commonly used in plastics or fertilizer. But it can also be added to foods to show high protein levels in tests.
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NAIROBI Jan 28, 2010 Somali pirates hijacked a Cambodian cargo ship, the MV Layla-S, off Berbera after it unloaded at the Somaliland port, a regional maritime official said on Thursday.
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MEXICO CITY Jan 25, 2010 Paraguay striker Salvador Cabanas was shot in the head early today in what looked like a robbery attempt. He was being treated in intensive care at a Mexico City hospital, the city prosecutor said.
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TOKYO Jan 19, 2010 Prosecutors are probing into a funds scandal involving Ichiro Ozawa, the No. 2 executive in Japan’s ruling Democratic Party. The probe has been widened on Tuesday.
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