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Al Qaeda has released a new video showing 70-year-old U.S. citizen Warren Weinstein, taken hostage, begging President Obama to yield to the demands of his captors to save his life.
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Brooklyn -
A late Sunday night hostage-barricade drama in Brooklyn culminated in a violent and bloody gun battle early this past Monday morning that left a heavily armed ex-convict and four members of an elite NYPD tactical unit hospitalized with serious injuries.
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An autopsy has confirmed that Franco Lamolinara, an Italian man killed in a failed rescue mission in Nigeria, was shot four times at close range, including a fatal shot to his head.
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Washington -
A would-be armed robber, holding a gun to the head of his hostage, slipped on ice and was shot dead in a hail of bullets from as many as six police officers outside a bank in Washington DC on Friday.
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In a new audio message, Osama Bin Laden is calling on France to withdraw troops in Afghanistan in exchange for release of French hostages held by al-Qaeda and a failure to do so is “a green light” for the hostages’ murders.
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Marinette -
A 10th grade student with a handgun is holding 23 classmates and a teacher hostage at a high school in Wisconsin, and roads in the area have been blocked off.
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Ohio man holds family hostage for a year and rapes one of his children. The man's wife and children told authorities that they wanted to leave the home.
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A gunman with at least one hostage and believed to have a bomb has entered a Discovery Channel building in Maryland. Police are currently trying to negotiate with the gunman via telephone.
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Philippine police investigators said the eight Hong Kong tourists who died in the hostage-taking incident in Manila last Monday were shot by the hostage-taker.
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Manila -
Every story has multiple angles. Every character has multiple facets, each defined by different motives. The story of Rolando Mendoza, the Filipino gunman, is no exception.
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Hostage Headlines
A Swiss couple held hostage by the Pakistani Taliban are free after an eight-month ordeal, the army says.
Claudio Colangelo, one of two Italians taken hostage by Maoist rebels in India almost two weeks ago, is released.
Hostage rescued by Navy SEALs from Somali pirates coming home to U.S.
Colombia's leftist Farc rebels have released their last 10 police and military hostages.
Colombia's largest left-wing rebel group, the Farc, announces it will abandon kidnappings and free 10 members of the security forces it holds hostage.
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