News Headlines - 18 January 2013

▽BBC News - Hostages missing after Algeria raid on In Amenas plant

An Algerian army operation to free hostages at a gas facility in the desert has left a number of Islamist militants and their captives missing.

▽Algeria: Hostage 'Had Explosives Around Neck'

An Irishman who escaped from the Algerian hostage crisis had explosives tied around his neck, his brother has revealed.

▽Terrorist with 'perfect English accent' involved in Algerian hostage crisis - Telegraph

An Algerian hostage who escaped told French newspaper Le Monde that one of the Al-Qaeda-linked militants spoke English perfectly, and was among a multi-national group who seemed well acquainted with the BP gas plant in the southeast of the North African country.

▽David Cameron puts Algeria and Mali crises ahead of EU speech | The Guardian

Events dictated that prime minister had to drop long-awaited EU briefing to deal with 'existential terrorist threat'

▽Algerian crisis: energy giants' security concerns - Channel 4 News

Energy giants will be rethinking their presence in the region after Islamist fighters seize foreign workers at Algeria's In Amenas field, an energy security analyst tells Channel 4 News.