Algeria siege inquest to begin

An inquest into the deaths of six Britons and a UK-based Colombian killed during a militant attack on a gas plant in Algeria is under way in London.

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Inquest into death of tragic teen Jack Burden could be held in Tanzania
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An inquest into the death of a teenager who died while helping disadvantaged children in Africa is likely to be held abroad. Jack Burden, 18, was on a school trip of a lifetime with pals from Harton Technology College in South Shields when it is thought he ...

Artist felt indeterminate jail term was like death sentence, inquest told  The GuardianView Full coverage on Google News

Girl, 13, died of cancer after being sent home by doctors for chest infection, inquest hears  Daily MailView Full coverage on Google News

The rate at which people are taking the law into their own hands by killing suspected criminals is cause for grave concern. This has put the Police Force and the judicial system in the spotlight in that they reflect a general loss of trust in the two institutions in areas where violent crime is prevalent.

An attack by suspected Islamist militants who took 170 people hostage at a hotel in the Malian capital is over, US officials say.

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Tanzania's elephants under siege
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Tanzania has emerged as the epicentre of Africa's elephant poaching crisis after a government census revealed it had lost a “catastrophic” 60% of its elephants in just five years. The results will pile pressure on a government that has been heavily criticised for ...
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The Westgate shopping mall in the Kenyan capital Nairobi, where al-Shabab militants killed 67 people in September 2013, opens its doors again.

>Local banks are among the victims of the largest global heist in which financial institutions lost an estimated $1 billion after hackers--mainly from Eastern Europe, Ukraine, Russia and China--broke into the banks’ network between 2013 and 2014.