HuffingtonPost.com (exerpts):  Bamako, Mali - Gunmen killed a German man in Mali's most famous city of Timbuktu and seized three men from the Netherlands, South Africa and Sweden, officials and witnesses said, as officials on Saturday ordered a plane to evacuate foreigners from the tourist destination.  The Dutch and Swedish governments confirmed Saturday that their citizens had been taken.  A fellow traveler said the other man seized was South African and she met the German man.  Tour guide ...
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