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• China Needs To Cut North Korea Loose: Pro 

  

  Sean King, Senior Vice President, Park Strategies expects North Korea to carry through with its threat of rocket launches. He says that China needs to cut ties with North Korea.

• UPDATE 1-Push to revive assault weapons ban begins in U.S. Congress

  WASHINGTON, Jan 24- A top U.S. The massacre galvanized public support for tougher gun laws, but also rallied pro-gun rights groups like the National Rifle Association to oppose such action. 'The answer is we don't know, "said Feinstein, who asked Americans to pressure Congress.

• Canadian police in Algeria to investigate gas plant attack

  OTTAWA, Jan 24- Canadian police are in Algeria looking for evidence that Canadian citizens were involved in last week's attack and hostage-taking at a desert gas plant, a government official said on Thursday. "I can confirm that they are on the ground," the official told Reuters when asked whether members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police were in Algeria.

• Oil firms face soaring security bill after attacks

  *North Africa likely to suffer oil investment slowdown. This would inevitably mean a big rise in costs, Kuzayev said at the gathering held on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos.

• North Korea to Target US With Nuclear, Rocket Tests

  

  North Korea said on Thursday it would carry out further rocket launches and a nuclear test that would target the United States, dramatically stepping up its threats against a country it called its "sworn enemy".

• Libya reinforces border, oilfields after Algeria attack

  *Italy's Eni, Spain's Repsol operate in area. TRIPOLI, Jan 23- Libya has strengthened its oil protection force in southwestern oilfields near the Algerian border after the In Amenas attack in its neighbour. Libyan oilfields, like Italy's Eni's El Feel and Spain's Repsol's Sharara, are several hundred miles away.

• 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.

• 'Restrepo' director has sorrowful Sundance return

  PARK CITY, Utah-- Sebastian Junger wishes his latest Sundance Film Festival documentary never had to be made. The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington, "a portrait of his" Restrepo "co-director, who was killed covering fighting in Libya in April 2011.

• 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.

• Reuters World News Highlights at 0845 GMT, Jan 21

  ALGIERS, Algeria- The hostage death toll from a four-day siege at an Algerian gas plant deep in the Sahara has risen to almost 60, with at least nine Japanese nationals also reported killed in an attack claimed by a veteran Islamist fighter on behalf of al Qaeda.

• WRAPUP 2-Algeria hostage toll rises with report of Japanese deaths

  ALGIERS, Algeria, Jan 21- The hostage death toll from a four-day siege at an Algerian gas plant deep in the Sahara has risen to almost 60, with at least nine Japanese nationals also reported killed in an attack claimed by a veteran Islamist fighter on behalf of al Qaeda.

• WRAPUP 1- Algeria toll rises as attack claimed for al Qaeda

  ALGIERS, Algeria, Jan 21- The death toll has risen to at least 48 hostages killed during a four-day siege at a gas plant deep in the Sahara as a veteran Islamist fighter claimed responsibility on behalf of al Qaeda for the attack. One-eyed veteran Islamist fighter Mokhtar Belmokhtar claimed responsibility on Sunday for the attack on behalf of al Qaeda.

• 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.

• Five militants captured alive at gas plant-Algeria security source

  ALGIERS, Jan 20- Algerian special forces clearing the In Amenas gas plant captured five militants alive on Sunday, a security source said, bringing the number of militants who are believed to have participated in an attack on the facility to 37.. Algeria said it expected to raise its preliminary tolls for those killed in the four-day siege deep in the Sahara.

• 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.

• UPDATE 1-Jihadist claims Algeria attack for al Qaeda in video- site

  NOUAKCHOTT, Jan 20- Veteran jihadist Mokhtar Belmokhtar has claimed responsibility in the name of al Qaeda for the mass hostage-taking in Algeria and called on France to halt air strikes in Mali, Mauritanian news website Sahara Media said on Sunday, citing a video.

• White House says confident will pass some gun control legislation

  WASHINGTON, Jan 20- A White House adviser on Sunday said he was optimistic Congress will approve at least part of President Barack Obama's proposals to reduce gun violence in the wake of December's massacre at a Connecticut elementary school.

• 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.

• 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.