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• Suicide Bomber Attacks US Embassy in Turkey 

  

  The Turkish prime minister says a local terrorist Marxist group is responsible; and CNBC's Sharon Epperson reports how the oil market is reacting to the attacks.

• UPDATE 5-Oil rises above $116 on renewed Mideast tension

  LONDON, Feb 1- Brent crude oil rose above $116 on Friday to reach a four-month high after a suicide bombing attack on the U.S. embassy in Ankara increased the focus on tension across the region. Brent futures for March rose $1.18 to a high of $116.73 a barrel, its highest since mid-September, before easing back to around $116.25 by 1500 GMT.

• Crescent Petroleum: Most Stable Period for Oil Prices  

  

  Majid Jafar, CEO of Crescent Petroleum, tells CNBC that a general sense of instability post the Arab Spring has already been factored in to the oil price but there has been no direct impact from the Algerian hostage attack.

• Obama's Media Coverage Criticisms 

  

  Discussing why journalist Steve Kroft couldn't get President Obama and Hillary Clinton to give the "real" narrative about the Benghazi scandal. Dan Gainor, Media Research Center, shares his opinions.

• Will Oil Companies Pull Out of North Africa? 

  

  Neil Atkinson, director of Energy Research & Analysis at Datamonitor, tells CNBC that BP are talking about suspending drilling activities in Libya following the terrorist attack in Algeria.

• Bodies of 9 killed in Algeria return to Japan

  TOKYO-- Seven survivors and the bodies of nine Japanese slain in a hostage crisis in Algeria returned to Tokyo on a government plane Friday. The 16 individuals worked for a Yokohama- based engineering company, JGC Corp. at a natural gas plant in the Sahara that was seized by al-Qaida- linked militants last week.

• Benghazi's Unanswered Questions 

  

  Secretary of State gave her testimony on the Benghazi consulate attack. U.S. Army Retiree Gen. Wesley Clark and Peter Brookes, Heritage Foundation senior fellow, share their opinions on the White House's choices following the attack.

• Hillary Clinton Faces Tough Questions on Beghazi 

  

  Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) and Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) got tough with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton regarding the Benghazi attack, reports CNBC's Michelle Caruso-Cabrera.

• Revival of Centrist Vote in Israel 'Good News': Expert  

  

  Lord Malloch-Brown, EMEA chairman of FTI Consulting, tells CNBC that the revival of the centrist vote in Israel is 'good news' but a weaker Netanyahu may become a 'prisoner' of the right.

• Canada seeks evidence on hostage-taker, summons Algeria envoy

  *Canada summons envoy to make request for information. OTTAWA, Jan 22- Canada wants to see Algeria's evidence for saying that last week's attack and hostage-taking at a desert gas plant was coordinated by a Canadian militant, a government official said on Tuesday. "Canada summoned the Algerian ambassador to Canada to make that point directly," he added.

• Algeria Hostage Crisis Death Toll Hits 80, Could Rise

  

  Algerian special forces have found the bodies of two Canadian Islamist fighters after a bloody siege at a desert gas plant, a security source said on Monday, as the death toll reached at least 80 after troops stormed the complex to end the hostage crisis.

• WRAPUP 3-Algeria finds dead Canadian militants as siege toll rises

  *Group threatens more attacks, says Algeria refused to talk. ALGIERS, Jan 21- Algerian special forces have found the bodies of two Canadian Islamist fighters after a bloody siege at a desert gas plant, a security source said on Monday, as the death toll reached at least 80 after troops stormed the complex to end the hostage crisis.

• Algeria Hostage Crisis Death Toll Hits 80, Could Rise Further

  Algerian troops found 25 bodies of hostages at a bomb-littered gas plant deep in the Sahara desert on Sunday, a day after ending a four-day siege, a security source said, raising the death toll of militants and their captives to at least 80.

• Algeria Expects Heavy Hostage Toll From Siege

  

  Algeria said on Sunday it expected heavy hostage casualties after its troops ended a desert siege, but Western governments warned against criticizing tactics used by their vital ally in the struggle with Islamists across the Sahara.

• WRAPUP 1-Algeria ends desert siege with 23 hostages dead

  ALGIERS/ IN AMENAS, Algeria, Jan 20- Algerian troops ended a siege by Islamist militants at a gas plant in the Sahara desert where 23 hostages died, with a final assault which killed all the remaining hostage-takers.

• US Officials: One American Killed & 2 Escaped in Algeria 

  

  "Let's not forget this is an act of terror," said Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in commenting on the hostages held in Algeria. Americans are still being held hostage, among others, with Peter Brookes, Heritage Foundation senior fellow.

• Latest Twist in McAfee Tale From His Own Lips 

  

  CNBC's Robert Frank talks with McAfee founder, John McAfee, about his belief the terrorist group Hezbollah is now operating in Belize.

• Terrorists Still Holding Hostages in Algeria 

  

  Terrorist want to exchange hostages for Omar Abdel Rahman, reports CNBC's Jackie DeAngelis. Also, a look at the impact on energy prices, with CNBC's Sharon Epperson.

• WRAPUP 7-Sixty foreigners still caught in Sahara hostage crisis

  *Western governments not consulted, Algiers faces questions. ALGIERS, Jan 18- About 60 foreigners were still being held hostage or missing inside a gas plant on Friday after Algerian forces stormed the desert complex to free hundreds of captives taken by Islamist militants, who threatened to attack other energy installations.

• UPDATE 1-U.S. vows to pursue militants behind Algeria attack

  Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said on Friday militants who attacked the United States and its citizens will hunted down, in the first comments by a senior U.S. official on a hostage attack by Islamist militants in Algeria. He said the U.S. government was working around the clock to ensure the safe return of its citizens caught up in the Algeria crisis.