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OTTAWA Cheap AS Roma Jerseys , Oct. 12 (Xinhua) -- The Canadian family held hostage inAfghanistan by the militant Taliban-linked Haqqani network has beenfreed, Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland said in astatement released Thursday.


Canadian national Joshua Boyle, 34, and his American wife,Caitlan Coleman, 31 were kidnapped in early October 2012 after theycrossed into Afghanistan during a backpacking trip through centralAsia. Coleman was pregnant at the time and they are now back freewith three children Cheap Atletico Madrid Jerseys , having given birth during the captivity.


"Canada has been actively engaged with the governments of theUnited States, Afghanistan and Pakistan, and we thank them fortheir efforts, which have resulted in the release of Joshua,Caitlan and their children," Freeland said in the statement.


On Thursday Freeland told reporters in Mexico City Cheap Chelsea Jerseys , where sheand Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau held a meeting withPresident Enrique Pena Nieto, that she was "not at liberty todescribe the circumstances" of the family's release, whilestressing that no ransom was paid.


Freeland said she and Trudeau mentioned Boyle's case with U.S.Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and President Donald Trump duringtheir Wednesday trip to Washington.


According to a White House statement also issued on Thursday,Trump said that the United States in cooperation with Pakistansecured the release of the Boyle-Coleman family from captivity inPakistan.


Pakistan's Armed Forces said in a statement on Thursday thatU.S. intelligences had been tracking the family and theirkidnappers as they entered Pakistan from Afghanistan on Wednesday.The early Thursday rescue operation "by Pakistani forces, based onactionable intelligence from U.S. authorities was successful."


"All hostages were recovered safe and sound and are beingrepatriated to the country of their origin," it said.


In a video posted on Thursday by the Toronto Star Cheap Barcelona Jerseys , a major dailyCanadian newspaper, Boyle's parents said they were expected to seetheir son "in a couple of days" after speaking to him for the firsttime in five years.


"Most importantly, this morning we relayed to the HighCommissioner of Pakistan in Canada our profound thanks for thecourageous Pakistani soldiers who risked their lives and got allfive of ours out safely in a rescue," said Boyle's father, Patrick,on the video that was shared on the Twitter account of Pakistaniarmy spokesman Asif Ghafoor.


Boyle's sister Cheap Borussia Dortmund Jerseys , Kaeryn, told Xinhua that "We're really glad thatthey're free."


Boyle reportedly told his parents that he and his family were inthe trunk of a car when they were rescued during a shoot-out thatleft the captors dead and Boyle injured with minor shrapnelwounds.


The Toronto Star reported that the last words Boyle heard fromthe kidnappers were "kill the hostages."


The U.S. government offered a military flight to transport Boyleand his family to the United States or to Canada, or "anywhere theywanted to go." Boyle told his parents that he wants to return toCanada with his family. Enditem



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Prospects for a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US counterpart Donald Trump at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Vietnam this week were unclear after contradictory statements from the two sides.


Putin and Trump, who had their first face-to-face meeting in July to discuss allegations of Russian meddling in the 2016 US election, are both planning to attend this week's summit in the Vietnamese city of Da Nang.


The Kremlin said it has been trying to set up a meeting and Trump told Fox News before his Asia tour that he might meet Putin in Vietnam to talk about Syria, Ukraine and North Korea.


Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov told Russian news agencies on Thursday that such a meeting would happen on Friday.


""Right now the time of the meeting is being agreed. It will be on the tenth [of November] Cheap Inter Milan Jerseys ,"" Ushakov told agencies.


But US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, on a visit to Beijing with Trump, said no decision on whether Trump and Putin would have formal talks had yet been taken.


Tillerson also questioned whether the two men would have enough to talk about to justify such a meeting.


(Agencies)

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The $31.5m (￡24.1m) total will be a major disappointment for distributor Warner Bros, which had projected ticket sales of between $45m and $50m.


Its 163-minute running time, limiting the number of screenings, was said to be one factor in the under-performance.


But it was still the weekend's most popular movie in the US. It topped the UK box office Wholesale Jerseys China , with sales above ￡6m.


The sequel to the 1982 cult classic, which also stars Harrison Ford as well as Ryan Gosling, cost Sony and Alcon Entertainment $150m to make.


Despite strong advance ticket sales and glowing reviews from many critics, the movie made $12.7m on Thursday night and Friday, $11.4m on Saturday and a projected $7.4m on Sunday from just over 4,000 cinemas.


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Paul Dergarabedian Wholesale Soccer Jerseys , senior media analyst with comScore, said: ""The core of enthusiastic and loyal 'Blade Runner' fans were over 25 and predominantly male, and propelled the film as expected to the top spot, but a lengthy running time and lesser interest among females made it tougher for the film to reach the original weekend box office projections.""


Men over 25 accounted for half the audience, according to PostTrack, with women over 25 making up 27%.


Jeff Goldstein Wholesale Jerseys , of Warner Bros, said Blade Runner 2049 had disappointed in smaller cities and in the South and Midwest, where the running time and baseball playoffs appeared to have deterred moviegoers.


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