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Nigeria Militants Kidnap 14, Including 2 Red Cross Workers

December 5, 2019 3:31 pm

Armed militants in northeast Nigeria have kidnapped 14 people, including two Red Cross workers and an army sergeant, security sources said on Thursday.

The group were intercepted by fighters from the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) on Wednesday night in Borno state, two Nigerian security sources said.

“Terrorists from ISWAP set up a roadblock on a road between Maiduguri and Damaturu yesterday… and took 14 people,” said one security source said.

“Among the kidnap victims are an army sergeant and his family and two Red Cross staff who were also taken.”

A second security source confirmed the kidnapping …

UNESCO lists new sites including Jaipur as World Heritage

July 7, 2019 12:16 am

The United Nations cultural body UNESCO – yesterday added the Indian “Pink City” of Jaipur, the ruins Liangzhu City in China and the Plain of Jars located in central Laos to its World Heritage list.

The additions followed a vote.

The fortified commercial city of Jaipur was founded in the 18th century by Sawai Jai Singh II.

It is built according to a grid plan and the Old City is painted uniformly in a distinctive terracotta hue.

UNESCO also agreed in its morning session to add Bahrain’s Dilmun Burial Mounds, the Budj Bim wetlands landscape formed by Australia’s aboriginal Gunditjmara …