In tonight’s edition: Kidnappers release 29 students who were being held captive in northwestern Nigeria for several weeks. South Africa's ruling ANC party suspends its secretary general after he was charged with embezzling funds while heading the country's Free State province. And a French journalist who disappeared in Northern Mali last month appears in a video, saying that he is being held by Al Qaeda's North Africa branch.

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