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US Secretary of State 'pleased' at release of US hostage in Niger

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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says he is "pleased" at the freeing of US aid worker Jeffery Woodke, who was kidnapped in Niger in 2016. "I want to thank the government of Niger, where I was just last week, for its important assistance in bringing him home," says the top diplomat during a news conference on the annual human rights report, at the US State Department in Washington, DC. SOUNDBITE

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