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VIDEO: Cars swept away in France flooding October 4, 2015
Footage filmed on the streets of Cannes shows cars displaced in the aftermath of flooding that has killed at least 13 people.
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VIDEO: Hungary 'in no hurry to close borders' October 4, 2015
Of the 180,000 refugees and migrants who entered Germany in September, 140,000 passed through Hungary.
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VIDEO: Catholic priest 'happy to be gay' October 4, 2015
A senior priest at the Vatican has revealed he is gay, on the eve of a major meeting set to discuss the Catholic Church's teaching on family.
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VIDEO: Many dead in Guatemala landslide October 3, 2015
Guatemalan authorities say the number of people killed when a hillside collapsed on houses in the village of El Cambray, 15km (nine miles) outside the capital, has risen to 56.
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VIDEO: Pakistan's first female fire fighter October 3, 2015
Shazia Parveen is breaking taboos in Pakistan by becoming the country's only female fire fighter.
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VIDEO: Oregon gunman killed himself October 3, 2015
Police in the US state of Oregon reveal that the gunman who shot dead nine fellow students at a community college also killed himself.
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VIDEO: UN denounces Kunduz hospital bombing October 3, 2015
The UN says the bombing of a hospital in Kunduz, in northern Afghanistan, was "tragic, inexcusable and possibly even criminal".
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VIDEO: Farmers find woolly mammoth skeleton October 3, 2015
Farmers in Michigan uncover a woolly mammoth skeleton in a soybean field.
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VIDEO: Hurricane Joaquin lashes Bahamas October 3, 2015
State of emergency declared for parts of the US east coast as Joaquin continues to move from the Bahamas towards Bermuda.
– ABDUL ABDULLAH YAHIA
* Abdul-Abdullah Yahia, born in 1970, also known as “the Emir,” was a petty thief and greengrocer from the Bab el-Oued neighborhood of Algiers, one of the poorest neighborhoods of Algeria’s capital. He spoke “approximate” French. Abdul-Abdullah Yahia did not receive any special Islamic education and was not a fanatic Muslim.
When the civil war in Algeria breached out in 1992 Abdul-Abdullah Yahia joined the Algerian Armed Islamic Group – GIA. Abdul-Abdullah Yahia, probably, became more radical in his Islamic views and, by 1994, he became a leading member in the elite group named itself “Signing with Blood” and a lieutenant, one of 9, of Djamel Zitouni, the head of GIA. Djamel Zitouni succeeded Ahmed Abu Abdullah, the former head of GIA, after he was killed on 09/26/1994. Djamel Zitouni’s policy was to expend the war in Algeria to France since he believed that France was the source of power and legitimacy of the Algerian Regime. According to the Algerian intelligence Abdul-Abdullah Yahia took part in “attacks of rare violence and savagery” and was considered extremely devout.
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