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Jordan proposes prisoner swap, fate of Japanese IS hostage unclear

The mother of Japanese hostage Kenji Goto has made a tearful appeal to the country's prime minister to save her son

 

Jordan offered on Wednesday to hand over an Iraqi woman on death row for her role in a 2005 suicide bomb attack if a Jordanian pilot captured by Islamic State was released.

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