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Gunmen stormed a Radisson Hotel in Mali's capital Bamako, taking 170 hostages and setting off a fight that killed at least 27 people, including at least two of the attackers.  One of the murdered hostages is identified as Geoffrey Dieudonne, a member of Belgium's parliament.  All the remaining hostages - most of whom were also foreign guests - are free at this point.  An Al Qaeda offshoot called al-Murabitoun took responsibility for the siege.  That group is led by Algerian jihadist Mokhtar Belmokhtar, the one-eyed terrorist who has been reported killed several times in the past - but probably isn't dead.

French officials are taking a new view of the raid at Saint-Denis, now that they've discovered that a third suspected terrorist was in the apartment targeted by elite police commandos.  They believe the unknown terrorist detonated his device near 26-year-old Hasna Ait Boulahcen, killing her and setting off the suicide bomb she was wearing.  Audio recordings from the raid captured Boulahcen pleading with police that she was not "with" the target of the raid, her cousin Abdelhamid Abaaoud who was killed.  Link that to the interviews given by her friends and former classmates who said that up until a few weeks ago Boulahcen was a jeans-and-cowboy hat-wearing party girl, and officials are starting to believe that at the very least she had no idea what she was getting into with her cousin's crew.

Prosecutors also said that a second suicide bomber from the Stade de France attack on 13 November passed through Greece on his way to France.  One of the other dead attackers might have come from Syria, posing as a refugee to get into Greece and travel through the European Schengen Zone to get to France.  Meanwhile, France's Prime Minister Manuel Valls announced that the death toll from the attacks had risen to 130 people.

Russia spent the past four days slamming cruise missiles into Islamic State targets in Syria.

Bolivia arrested three Australian backpackers who were allegedly trying to carry explosives on a flight to Brazil.  Fairfax names them as 24-year old Julian Giovanni Vicenzo Musumeci, Justin Maurice Kwong Wei Sun, and Liam Mark Eales, both aged 25.  Two of the men were freed, but the third will reportedly stand trial for having a stick of dynamite and an unidentified pink powder. 

Liberia has three new Ebola cases, three months after the last time the country was declared "Ebola Free".  Among the new infections is a 10-year old boy from a suburb of Monrovia.  The West African Ebola Epidemic has killed more than 11,300 people since December 2013 - 4,808 in Liberia.

An Indian court is halting the Modi government's efforts to pull Greenpeace's license to operate in the country.  Authorities in Tamil Nadu state cancelled Greenpeace's registration earlier this month, but the court says the group can continue to operate until the government clarifies its accusations of financial improprieties.  Greenpeace has operated in India for 14 years, but the government's hostility has grown in recent years.

The former CEO of Rupert Murdoch's Star India network in connection with the murder of his stepdaughter.  Peter Mukerjea has maintained his innocense in the case that has gripped India.  The victim Sheena Bora was first thought to be Mukerjea's sister-in-law, but later found to be his stepdaughter as teh sordid case started to unfold.