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  Algerian Islamic militants behead French hostage

  World | September 25, 2014 7:47 IST

  ALGIERS, Algeria: An Algerian splinter group from al-Qaida has beheaded a French hostage over France's airstrikes on the Islamic State group, in a sign of the possible widening of the crisis in Iraq and Syria

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  Hollande confirms killing of French hostage in Algeria

  World | September 25, 2014 6:35 IST

  Paris: French President Francois Hollande confirmed on Wednesday the death of a French man abducted in Algeria by a group linked to Islamic State (IS) Sunni radical militants.At an UN General Assembly meeting in New

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  French hostage killed by Al Qaeda in Mali

  World | July 16, 2013 6:49 IST

  Paris, July 16: French national Philippe Verdon kidnapped and kept hostage by Al Qaeda-linked Islamists in 2011 in Mali has been killed, French President Francois Hollande said."The death of our compatriot Mr. Philippe Verdon is