Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks during a meeting at the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo Monday.. -EPA
TOKYO: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe admitted Wednesday it was a “race against time” to free two hostages snatched by Islamist militants who are demanding $200 million for their lives.
A defiant Abe said he would not bow to “terrorism” as he took charge of the crisis that Japan was thrust into with the release of a chilling video apparently showing two Japanese men kneeling in the desert of Syria or Iraq.
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