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FREED: Princeton Grad Student Held Hostage In Iraq For 2+ Years Released FREED: Princeton Grad Student Held Hostage In Iraq For 2+ Years Released FREED: Princeton Grad Student Held Hostage In Iraq For 2+ Years Released
Freed: Princeton Grad Student Held Hostage In Iraq For 2+ Years Released A Princeton graduate student has been released after she was held hostage in Iraq for two years. President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social Tuesday, Sept. 9 that Elizabeth Tsurkov, was released by Kata'ib Hezbollah and is at the American Embassy in Iraq.  "I will always fight for justice and never give up, Trump wrote. Tsurkov, a Russian and Israeli citizen, had been tortured for many months, Trump said. Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia’ al-Sudani said the release came after extensive efforts by his country's security services. "We reaffirm, once again, that we will not…

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Rye, NY
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Rye Native Dr. Louis Barton Was A True Scholar Rye Native Dr. Louis Barton Was A True Scholar Rye Native Dr. Louis Barton Was A True Scholar
Rye Native Dr. Louis Barton Was A True Scholar Longtime Westchester resident Dr. Louis Wyatt Gunn Barton died in late August at Little Farm, his home of 40 years in Ocie, MO.  Dr. Barton, age 72, was a lifelong student with prodigious academic successes. He was top student and class president at George School, and he graduated magna cum laude from Yale. He studied for masters degrees at Harvard and MIT and earned a doctoral degree in Software Engineering from Oxford University in England.  During his Oxford years, he suffered from ill health and did most of his studying at his home in Ocie. Oxford made an extraordinary deci…

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