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BBC News is reporting that Colombian rebel group Farc has released their last 10 hostages. A Brazilian military helicopter flew the men, who had been held for more than 12 years, to safety.
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British Prime Minister David Cameron, said on Thurday that a British and an Italian held hostage in Nigeria by a faction of the terrorist group Boko Haram with al-Qaeda contacts were killed before they could be rescued by special forces.
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U.S. Navy SEALs have rescued two aid workers held hostage by a Somali criminal group during an overnight raid in which a number of hostage-takers were killed.
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A kidnapper who was fleeing from police is suing a couple that he held hostage in their own home. The kidnapper claims that the couple broke an oral contract.
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Many masters and shipowners do not report piracy for fear of delays due to protracted investigations, increased insurance premiums, bad publicity, and stifling red tape.
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US military sources have announced that suspected Somali pirates have killed of all four American hostages on the yacht Quest.
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Somali pirates have captured a Greek-registered oil tanker with 25 men on board off the coast of Oman. The supertanker, Irene SL, has lost all communication with its Greek-based shipping company Enesel.
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Police Patrol, the law enforcement magazine, carried this update to the hostage taking Monday night: "All hostages have been released at the Marinette High School, according to the Marinette County Sheriff's Department, as of approximately 8:15 p.m."
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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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Nigeria's military launched a land, air and sea operation on Wednesday in the Niger Delta oil region resulting in the rescue of 19 hostages including foreigners being held by militants.
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Hostages 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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