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The parents of an American humanitarian worker held hostage by Islamic State militants appealed for his release on Saturday, speaking in a statement and a video message that highlighted his aid work and mentioned his conversion to Islam. Ed and Paula Kassig, of Indianapolis, Indiana, urged the release of their son, Peter Kassig, 26. Kassig was threatened in a video issued on Friday by Islamic State militants that purported to show the beheading of British aid worker Alan Henning, 47. Kassig s parents have sai
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The chilling private diaries of a British reporter, who was murdered for exposing wartime Soviet leader Joseph Stalin s atrocities, are to go on public display for the first time. HT Image Gareth Jones trekked across Soviet Ukraine -- then officially off limits to Western journalists -- to report on the Holomodor -- the man-made famine that killed millions between 1932 and 1933. In March 1933 Jones returned to Berlin to file a press release describing how millions of peasants were starving to death while the Soviet regime exported grain to the West. His chilling report appeared in world s newspapers, including the Manchester Guardian and the New York Evening Post . But Jones work was dismissed as a scare story by Western journalists based in Moscow, keen to maintain favour with Stalin s government, and he was banned from the USSR. Two years later, while working in China, he was murdered, aged 30. Later investigations into the circumstan
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