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A suicide bomber attempted to force his way past the defenses of the city of Timbuktu on Saturday, detonating himself on its outskirts, while a landmine exploded in another part of northern Mali, killing a total of three, officials said. HT Image The twin attacks come as French President Francois Hollande to <a href=https://www.stanley-stanley-cup.us>stanley cup ld French television that French forces had attained their objectives in Mali, a country which until January had lost its northern half to an al-Qaida cell and their allies. After the extremists began a southward push, Hollande unilaterally authorized a military intervention, quickly liberating the main cities in the north. Outside the heavily fortified cities like Timbuktu, however, the jihadists are still present, leading an increasingly brutal insurgency. The jihadist was driving a car loaded with explosives, said a military official based in Timbuktu, who requested anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the press. He arriv
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Richard Holbrooke, the US special envoy on Afghanistan and Pakistan, has hit back at critics who have accused him of disappearing from public view amid major crises in the countries under his purview. HT Image I didn t know I was missing in action because I was kind of busy all day, the senior diplomat said in an interview with Foreign Policy magazine blog The Cable. Holbro <a href=https://www.adidas-originals.es>adidas originals oke has been unusually absent from the public arena as Afghanistan plunged into a political crisis sparked by widespread fraud in the presidential election, and Pakistan suffered a string of attacks and then launched a major counter-militant operation. Like many, we wonder what happened to Mr Obama s special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke, who established a bureaucratic fiefdom at the State Department bu
af1 t has been neither seen nor heard from during this critical period, the New York Times wrote in an October 20 editorial. The fact that the top diplomat, who was appointed to coordinate US policy in Afghanistan and Pakistan early on in US President Barack Obama s term, is not known for shrinking from the media spotlight only deepened suspicions in Washington. McClatchy news agency blog Nukes and Spooks reported, based on three unnamed ad
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