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CNN: At Least 37 Hostages KilledThe In Amenas hostage crisis began on 16 January 2013, when al-Qaeda-linked terrorists affiliated with a brigade led by Mokhtar Belmokhtar took over 800 people hostage at the Tigantourine gas facility near In Amenas, Algeria.
At least 23 hostages and 32 "terrorists" were killed around the sprawling facility in eastern Algeria's desert, the Algerian interior ministry said Saturday. Some 685 Algerian workers and 107 foreigners have been freed, it said. -
Reuters: North Korean nuclear test draws anger, including from China North Korea conducted its third nuclear test on Tuesday in defiance of existing U.N. resolutions, angering the United States and Japan and prompting its only major ally, China, to call for calm.
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Meteor Explodes A meteor streaking through the sky exploded over Russia's Ural mountains, injuring nearly 1,000 people and damaging homes and businesses in the Chelyabinsk region
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ABC News: Pope Resigns Pope Benedict's decision to step down as leader of the Catholic Church made him the first pope to relinquish the office since Pope Gregory XII in 1415.
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