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January 25, 2012         8:09 a.m. U.S. officials on Wednesday were providing some new details on the dramatic helicopter rescue of an American aid worker and her Danish colleague in Somalia. The Pentagon released a statement Wednesday morning on the U.S. military’s rescue, saying that Jessica Buchanan, 32, and Poul Hagen Thisted, 60, [...]

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Pakistani police officers gather at the entry gate of the house of an abducted American citizen in Lahore, Pakistan on Saturday, Aug. 13, 2011.   Gunmen kidnapped an American development expert after tricking his guards and breaking into his house in Pakistan on Saturday, a brazen raid that alarmed aid workers, diplomats and other foreigners [...]

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27 February 2011 Last updated at 15:52 ET A Canadian national is missing in Afghanistan, Canadian officials have said. A spokeswoman for the department of foreign affairs in Ottawa said the man – named as Colin Rutherford – had travelled to Afghanistan as a tourist. The confirmation followed a statement by the Taliban saying they [...]

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