The French military signed a deal to protect the new UN peacekeeping force in Mali against terrorist attacks. The body of slain French hostage Philippe Verdon, who was kidnapped by al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb in 2011, has reportedly been found in northern Mali. AQIM announced in March that it had executed him in retaliation for the French intervention in Mali.
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