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After four months of captivity at the hands of Al Quaeda, two Canadian officals who were working with the UN in Niger were freed today in northern Mali.  Al-Quaeda Islamic Maghreb claimed responsibility for the kidnapping.  Tuareg nomadic rebels initially claimed responsibility for the attack, but retracted that statement.

In a move that some call “blackmail”, Turkey has removed its Canadian ambassador because some Canadian officials attended an event commemorating the genocide of Armenians in 1915.  Turkey denies that it was a genocide, and that claims of 1.5 million Armenians killed by Turks are exaggerated.  This is the second time that Turkey has moved to recall its ambassador to Canada over similar issues.