American aid worker kidnapped in Nigeria
Kogi state Police Commissioner Adeyemi Ogunjemilusi says five men kidnapped the woman from her workplace and are demanding a ransom of 60 million Naira ($301,500). – CNN’s Mariano Castillo contributed…
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Half-Million Supporters Demand Pardon For Persecuted Gay Men Day After Graham Moore’s Oscar Speech
On the heels of screenwriter Graham Moore’s moving Oscars speech for his role in creating “The Imitation Game,” the family of the film’s protagonist, late mathematician Alan Turing, is demanding…
Egyptian Judge Orders Release Of Al-Jazeera English Journalists
An Egyptian judge has ordered the release of two Al-Jazeera English journalists, demanding that the Canadian defendant pay a $33,000 bail, pending their retrial. The judge ordered the release of…
Video claims 1 Japanese ISIS hostage killed; new demand made
The voice says his captors no longer want money, but rather are demanding the release of Sajedah Rishawi, who is being held by Jordanian authorities. “You were given a deadline,…
Web of Terror: Paris attackers’ connection to global jihad
But when that gunman, Amedy Coulibaly, took hostages at a kosher supermarket the next day, demanding that police stand down from a siege of the Kouachi brothers happening just outside…