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  • Algeria: 12 hostages have died in the siege

  • The bloody three-day hostage standoff at a natural gas plant in the Sahara took a dramatic turn Friday as Algeria's state news service reported that nearly 100 of the 132 foreign workers kidnapped by Islamic militants had been freed.

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    • AIN AMENAS, Algeria
    By ANIS BELGHOUL,Associated Press
    PAUL SCHEMM,Associated Press
    Updated Jan. 18, 2013 @ 2:47 pm
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