Mali Woman

A Malian mother who gave birth to nine babies in Morocco last year returned home on Tuesday with her infants, Health Minister Dieminatou Sangare told AFP.

A Malian woman gave birth to nine babies on Tuesday - two more than doctors had detected inside her crowded womb - joining a small pantheon of mothers of nonuplets.

The woman, Sarla Mali, had married Pankaj Mali, who belongs to a different community. Family was unhappy with their union.

A woman doctor from Jalgaon district has written a letter to Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis alleging she was "harassed" by the state Health Minister Deepak Sawant's Personal Secretary, a charge denied by the official.

An online monitor of ISIS groups says al-Qaeda's north Africa wing has released a new video of a Swiss woman taken hostage in Mali in January.

Al-Qaeda's north Africa affiliate has claimed the kidnapping of a Swiss woman in Mali's Timbuktu in a video seen by AFP on Wednesday, as Switzerland demanded her unconditional release.

Private Mauritanian news agency Al-Akhbar said Tuesday that it has received a video purportedly from the Al Qaeda-linked Emirate of the Sahara group claiming responsibility for this month's kidnapping of Swiss woman Beatrice Stockly in Mali.

Authorities in Mali published the photographs today of a man and a woman they said helped plan an attack on a luxury hotel in which 19 people and two gunmen were killed, according to state television, which showed the pictures.

The killing of Anita Ashok Datar, the lone American citizen who died in the terrorist attack in Mali, should deepen America's resolve to lead the world to meet the threat posed by radical jihadism, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said today.

An Indian-American woman is among at least 27 people killed during a deadly siege of a Mali hotel by Islamic extremists.

The love story in this fabled desert outpost began over the phone, when he dialed the wrong number. It nearly ended with the couple's death at the hands of Islamic extremists who considered their romance "haram" - forbidden.

A Malian mother who gave birth to nine babies in Morocco last year returned home on Tuesday with her infants, Health Minister Dieminatou Sangare told AFP.

A Malian woman gave birth to nine babies on Tuesday - two more than doctors had detected inside her crowded womb - joining a small pantheon of mothers of nonuplets.

The woman, Sarla Mali, had married Pankaj Mali, who belongs to a different community. Family was unhappy with their union.

A woman doctor from Jalgaon district has written a letter to Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis alleging she was "harassed" by the state Health Minister Deepak Sawant's Personal Secretary, a charge denied by the official.

An online monitor of ISIS groups says al-Qaeda's north Africa wing has released a new video of a Swiss woman taken hostage in Mali in January.

Al-Qaeda's north Africa affiliate has claimed the kidnapping of a Swiss woman in Mali's Timbuktu in a video seen by AFP on Wednesday, as Switzerland demanded her unconditional release.

Private Mauritanian news agency Al-Akhbar said Tuesday that it has received a video purportedly from the Al Qaeda-linked Emirate of the Sahara group claiming responsibility for this month's kidnapping of Swiss woman Beatrice Stockly in Mali.

Authorities in Mali published the photographs today of a man and a woman they said helped plan an attack on a luxury hotel in which 19 people and two gunmen were killed, according to state television, which showed the pictures.

The killing of Anita Ashok Datar, the lone American citizen who died in the terrorist attack in Mali, should deepen America's resolve to lead the world to meet the threat posed by radical jihadism, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said today.

An Indian-American woman is among at least 27 people killed during a deadly siege of a Mali hotel by Islamic extremists.

The love story in this fabled desert outpost began over the phone, when he dialed the wrong number. It nearly ended with the couple's death at the hands of Islamic extremists who considered their romance "haram" - forbidden.