In 2012 Kazakhstans then-foreign minister praised the original film for attracting interest in the country and the number of visas issued by Kazakhstan grew.

according to the prefect of the Birni Nkonni department.who had been living in the region for several years.

who was kidnapped in the central town of Abalak in October 2016 and is believed to have been taken to neighboring Mali.close to the border with Nigeria.Several westerners are currently being held hostage in the region.

There were no immediate further details about his disappearance and no immediate claims of responsibility.including 75-year-old French non-governmental organization worker Sophie Petronin.

were released by their captors in Mali earlier this month under a prisoner swap arranged by the Malian government.

Niger lies in the heart of West Africas vast and impoverished Sahel region.a Scandinavian science and technology publication.

where they found large nails that the county said confirmed it was the site of a Viking ship.The discovery was announced on social media by Trndelag County.

but the ship itself appeared to have been buried centuries later.with Gemini reporting that the bronze cauldron was said to have been melted down into shoe buckles