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A ten－day， nationwide state of emergency has been declared in Mali following the attack
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on a hotel in the capital， Bamako ，... by suspected Islamist militants.
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The government says 21 people were killed，... including two gunmen，... at the Radisson
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Blu hotel. China′s state－run Xinhua news agency says
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three Chinese nationals are among the dead. The U.S. State Department said one U.S. citizen
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was killed. A Malian jihadi group and a regional branch
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of al－Qaeda have claimed responsibility for the attack.
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Mali has been fighting Islamist extremists since 2012 when militants took over much of
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the north of the country. Local and French forces managed to drive them
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out in 2013，... but groups have reemerged in the center of the country in recent months.
