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18 dead in Mali hostage siege a week after Paris carnage

Bamako (AFP) - Special forces stormed a luxury hotel in Mali on Friday after gunmen seized guests and staff in a hostage crisis that left at least 18 people dead, a week after the jihadist rampage in Paris.

  Many of the 170 hostages initially trapped by the suspected Islamists in the besieged Radisson Blu hotel in the Malian capital Bamako were foreigners and a Belgian regional assembly official was reported to be among the dead.

 

About nine hours after the attack began in a hail of automatic gunfire, the country's security minister said there were no more hostages after Malian special forces backed by US and French troops stormed the building.

Mali hotel attack: 3 dead after gunmen take captives at Radisson Blu in Bamako

9:27 a.m. ET] Seven Algerians, including six members of a Algerian diplomatic delegation, are safe after being trapped in the hotel in Mali's capital, the state-run Algerie Presse Service reported Friday afternoon. The Algerians were freed during a counterassault by U.N. and Malian forces, the outlet reported.

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Security forces have reportedly launched a counterassault on a hotel in the capital of the West African nation of Mali, where officials say gunmen took dozens of hostages and killed at least three people Friday morning.

 

The situation began around 7 a.m. at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Bamako, when two or three attackers with AK-47 rifles exited at least one vehicle with diplomatic plates and entered the hotel with guns firing, said Olivier Saldago, a spokesman for the United Nations mission in Mali.

Two Malian nationals and a French national have died, a U.N. official said without elaborating.

The attack, Saldago said, came as the hotel hosted a large delegation to peace talks in the landlocked country, a former French colony that has been battling Islamist extremists with the help of U.N. and French forces.

Alkaline - Champion Boy (Fire Starta Riddim)

Controversial DJ Alkaline have not been on the negative side of the critiques since the day he bust out of the pack. But lately he have been making across the border and slowing transferring over to the positive side with hits after hits getting an average of 600000 views on YouTube.  He also, bought his mother a house and his baby sister a BMW which shows that behind all the controversy he has a good heart.   Champion boy is the song he wrote to emphasize on that feeling when you made it to the top amongst the greatest.

Why Yemen Won't Ban Child Marriage and Rape

The story of Nujood Ali, a young girl married off at 8 then raped and beaten by her husband, shocked the international community recently. But child marriage remains a legal and common practise in Yemen.

"He sexually assaulted me on the wedding night. His mother was holding me," remembers Nujood. Traumatised, she sought refuge from her relatives but was turned away for fear of shaming the family. With no one to rely on but herself, she took a taxi to court where a judge, outraged by her story, granted her a divorce. But Nujood was lucky in a country which does not recognise marital rape as a crime and has no minimum marriage age. A reform to introduce it was blocked last year by Yemen's Muslim Brotherhood. "Islam doesn't specify an age for marriage. Why make a problem out of nothing?" asks one member of Yemen's parliament. Nujood is set on fighting child marriage in Yemen when she grows up; but with an estimated half of all brides aged below 18 and many families hoping to alleviate poverty with dowries, she faces a bitter struggle.












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Bride Kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan

In rural Kyrgyzstan men still marry their women the old-fashioned way: by abducting them off the street and forcing them to be their wife.



Bride kidnapping is a supposedly ancient custom that's made a major comeback since the fall of Communism and now accounts for nearly half of all marriages in some parts.





We traveled to the Kyrgyz countryside to follow/aid and abet a young groom named Kubanti as he surprised his teenage girlfriend Nazgul with the gift of marriage/kidnapping.

Here's the Russian jet that's terrorizing Syria's anti-Assad rebels

According to Yahoo News, Russian Sukhoi Su-25 Frogfoot ground-attack planes perform during the Aviadarts military aviation competition at the Dubrovichi range near Ryazan, Russia, August 2, 2015.
As the Syrian military begins its push to take back opposition-held areas in northwestern Syria, Russia has provided backing through an intensifying aerial campaign.