Turkey blocked access on Monday to social networking sites, including Twitter and YouTube, over photos showing a militant pointing a gun at a prosecutor who died last week in a failed hostage rescue operation. Malaysian police have detained 17 suspected militants who authorities said Monday had planned to attack police stations and army camps to acquire weapons and carry out terrorist acts in Kuala Lumpur. The sweep brought the number of suspected supporters of the Islamic State extremist group arrested since last year to 92, a police official said. French special forces on Monday freed a Dutchman held hostage since being kidnapped in 2011 by extremists in Mali, the government said. Some 3,000 French forces are taking part in the mission to stabilize Mali, which was overrun by Islamic extremists until French troops came to the aid of Malian soldiers in January 2013. An Indonesian court on Monday rejected appeals by two Australian drug traffickers who challenged President Joko Widodo’s decision to refuse them clemency and spare their lives. Britain’s Prince Harry laid a wreath at a war memorial in Australia’s capital Canberra on Monday at the start of a four-week assignment with the armed forces.
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