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Spanish hostages freed by al-Qaida-linked group following prisoner swap, allegations of ransom
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Two Spanish aid workers kidnapped almost nine months ago by an al-Qaida affiliate arrived Tuesday in Barcelona after a multi-million-dollar ransom was reportedly paid for their freedom — a sign of the terrorist group's growing sophistication in bankrolling operations through kidnappings, experts said Aid workers Roque Pascual and Albert Vilalta were abducted last November when their convoy of 4-by-4s was attacked by gunmen on a stretch of road in Mauritania, They were whisked away to Mali, whose northern half is now one of the many stretches of remote desert where al-Qaida of Islamic Maghreb, or AQIM, has stretched its tentacles ,Late on Monday afternoon, the pair stepped out of a helicopter that landed on the grounds of the presidential palace in Burkina Faso and were handed a cell phone.
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CCDH urges rights NGOs to intervene to ensure safe return of Mostafa Salma Sidi Mouloud to Tindouf
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The Moroccan Advisory Council on Human Rights (CCDH) urged, on Tuesday, all the national and international human rights organizations to do their best so that the senior polisario official, Mostafa Salma Sidi Mouloud, can return to Tindouf (south-western Algeria) safe and sound and defend his opinions freely,"CCDH urges all sister national institutions, including the National Consultative Human Rights Commission of Algeria, all international agencies and all national and international human rights associations to do their best so that Mr Mostafa Salma Sidi Mouloud can return to Tindouf safely and defend his opinions freely," The CCDH said in a statement The CCDH, which received a letter from Mostafa Salma Sidi Mouloud in which he expressed fear of "possible retaliation by the leadership of the Polisario Front," underlined that "given the deplorable state of human rights in the Tindouf camps, or even the illegal character of these camps under the international humanitarian law, the fear of retaliation expressed by Mr.
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Perfect timing means to stop waiting for it
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It bothers me when I hear people describe a personal set of conditions that need to be met before they can make the next move in their life Most often, they’re just making excuses — creating obstacles that aren’t actually there, placing the blame on some outside force they can’t control, and choosing to let day after day of inaction turn into many years of waiting for their cosmos to align.
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Indian soldiers die in avalanche
By Agencies
February 8, 2010 12:00 AM
At least 17 Indian soldiers have been killed and another 17 injured following an avalanche that hit an army training centre at a ski resort town in Indian-administered Kashmir, army officials have said
Eighty soldiers, all in need of emergency medical care, have been found during search-and-rescue operations currently under way at Gulmarg, 50km northwest of Srinagar, the main city in Indian Kashmir.
"The avalanche hit a training centre at the army's High Altitude Warfare School at about 11am and swept away soldiers during a training session," Colonel Vineet Sood, an army spokesman, said.
"It was the worst avalanche in the area in many years. About 400 people, including 30 civilian workers, were at the training centre, but the avalanche hit only one portion of the facility," he added.
"We have activated all resources to rescue the buried soldiers." Sood said.
Rescue teams
Farooq Ahmed, a top police officer, said "casualties could rise", and joint rescue teams of police, army and tourism officials had reached the spot where the avalanche struck.
Frequent rain and heavy snowfall often trigger avalanches and landslides in the region, blocking roads and cutting off tourist resorts like Gulmarg.
Gulmarg is also close to the Line of Control, a highly militarised cease-fire line dividing the Himalayan region between India and Pakistan.
The claim over Kashmir has caused two wars between the arch rivals since they became independent from Britain in 1947. Hundreds of thousands of soldiers are posted along either side of the Line of Control.
Last year in April, an avalanche hit an Indian army post in a separate region close to the de-facto border with Pakistan, killing seven soldiers and injuring at least eight others.
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