Hostages News
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Reports are emerging that one of the Japanese hostages being held by the Islamic State has been beheaded in a video released by the militant group.
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Rome -
Italy on Friday brushed aside reports it had paid off Al-Qaeda to secure the release of two Italian aid workers abducted in northern Syria last summer.
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Rome -
Two Italian women aid workers abducted in Syria last summer have been released, the Italian government said Thursday.
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Paris -
Five people were killed, including the gunman, and four were left critically wounded after a hostage drama in eastern Paris ended with a police assault on Friday.
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Washington, D. C. -
Tuesday's counterattack on a Sydney cafe that freed 15 hostages has prompted the United States to issue a worldwide travel alert advising its citizens traveling abroad to extra careful.
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Sydney -
Australian authorities are restricting some information on the latest terrorist hostage-taking, and getting cooperation from the media. The Sydney event ended after 17 hours with the gunman and at least two hostages dead.
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Washington -
A former commander of Colombia's leftist FARC rebels was jailed for 27 years for his role in the 2003 kidnap of three US citizens held captive for five years, the US Justice Department said.
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Bras -
Inmates at a maximum-security prison in northeast Brazil, who had taken four guards and more than 100 visiting relatives hostage during a riot, released all the captives Sunday, officials said.
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Kiev -
Ukraine's defence ministry said on Wednesday that pro-Russian militants had taken two of its soldiers "hostage" in the separatist eastern region of Lugansk.
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A silent video posted online appears to show the bodies of hostages kidnapped in Nigeria on February 16. Islamist militant group Ansaru claimed to have killed all seven hostages, at the weekend, as special forces launched a rescue mission.
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The international hostage crisis at the BP gas facility in Algeria appears to have come to a deadly conclusion, with Algerian officials finding additional bodies within the complex on Sunday.
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A United States Air Force aero evacuation plane has begun the process of evacuating Americans and other foreign nationals from the BP gas complex in Amenas, Algeria.
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Thursday was a day marked with confusion, concern, frustration and bloodshed as members of the Algerian military launched a rescue offensive on a BP gas complex in Amenas, Algeria.
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Algerian security sources have told Reuters that 35 hostages being held at an oil field in Algeria have been killed. Fifteen kidnappers have also been killed, according to Al Jazeera.
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Toronto -
At a Toronto press conference for his new film Argo, Ben Affleck explains how the story - based on real events - exemplify the need for the U.S. and Canada to work together on international crises.
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Pirates have seized a Greek oil tanker and 24-crew on board, after a gun battle with a naval patrol boat off the coast of Togo.
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Mogadishu -
Two South Africans, Deborah Calitz and Bruno Pelizzari, held hostage since 2010 have been released after spending almost two years in Somali pirate captivity.
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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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Sokoto -
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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Mogadishu -
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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Muscat -
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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Marinette -
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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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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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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Saturday’s execution of a Frenchman held hostage by al-Qaida seems to indicate a change in the way France deals with hostage situations. Often accused in the past of paying for the release of hostages, has France abandoned that policy?
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France has introduced a law obliging citizens who are taken hostage in countries declared to be dangerous to pay back some or all of the cost of their release operations. Confusion reigns as to which hostages would be exempted.
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Pretoria -
Four South African peacekeepers in Sudan’s Darfur region who were held hostage by a previously unknown rebel group have been released.
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mage grab taken off a video on January 20, 2015, reportedly released by the Islamic State allegedly shows Japanese hostages Kenji Goto (L) and Haruna Yukawa (R) with a black-clad militant brandishing a knife at an undisclosed location Screengrab
24 hostages at a high school in Marinette, Wisconsin, have been freed. Map from Google Maps with DJ overlay of information
Peter Kassig is the latest American to be beheaded by ISIS. Screen grab
San Bernardino police SWAT team Swatcop92407
Image grab taken off a video on January 20, 2015, reportedly released by the Islamic State allegedly shows Japanese hostages Kenji Goto (L) and Haruna Yukawa (R) with a black-clad militant brandishing a knife at an undisclosed location AL-FURQAN MEDIA/AFP
500 days of captivity for French journalists in Afghanistan (screenshot from support committee video)
Screenshot from i>Télé report of image of the two French hostages in Afghanistan projected on to the Arc de Triomphe on the day marking the first anniversary of their capture
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