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  • 05/01/2011 | Argentina

    Criminal detained after tense hostage situation

    A criminal took a family hostage in Lomas de Zamora. The incident began at around 8AM this morning, along Machado street at 250. It occurred while the police were busy dealing with youngsters committing a robbery close by.

  • 03/04/2012 | Argentina

    Armed gang takes over private neighbourhood, holds 27 hostage

    An armed gang containing at least five delinquents took over a private neighbourhood close to the Greater Buenos Aires area of Luján and took at least twenty-seven people hostage, thereafter ransacking four homes.

  • 17/01/2013 | World

    30 hostages, 11 militants killed in Algeria gas plant, source says

    Thirty hostages, including at least seven foreigners, and 11 militants were killed on when Algerian forces stormed a desert gas plant seized by Islamist militants, an Algerian security source said.

  • 21/01/2013 | World

    Algeria says 37 foreigners die in siege led by Canadian

    A total of 37 foreign workers died at an Algerian desert gas plant and seven are still missing after a hostage crisis coordinated by a Canadian, Algerian Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal said.

  • 08/01/2011 | World

    Two French hostages killed in Niger, Gov't source

    Two French hostages kidnapped in Niger have been found dead, a government source in the African country said. The pair were abducted from a bar overnight hundreds of kilometres from the lawless desert where Islamist militants, rebels and bandits flourish.

  • 08/03/2012 | World

    Italian, British hostages killed in failed Nigeria rescue

    An Italian and a British hostage kidnapped in May in Nigeria were killed today by their captors during a joint raid by British and Nigerian forces in an operation to free them, Italy's government said.

  • 09/03/2012 | World

    Italy gov’t condemns failed British raid in Nigeria

    President Giorgio Napolitano led a chorus of condemnation of Britain's failure to inform the Italian government before launching a botched rescue mission with Nigerian forces that led to the deaths of British and Italian hostages held by a militant Islamist group.

  • 02/04/2012 | Latin America

    Colombian rebels free 10 captives held more than a decade

    Colombia's FARC rebels freed 10 members of the armed forces held hostage in jungle prison camps for more than a decade, the last of a group of captives the drug-funded guerrilla group has held as bargaining chips to pressure the government.

  • 29/11/2011 | Latin America

    Colombia vows to keep up search for FARC hostages

    Colombia vowed to keep searching for captives of FARC guerrillas despite cries from families to prevent loved ones from facing the same fate as four hostages killed by rebels during a military operation.

  • 25/01/2012 | Latin America

    Colombian rebels to free 6 hostages, urging swaps

    A Colombian FARC rebel commander named six military and police captives the group pledged to free in the coming weeks and proposed a constitutional change to allow the exchange of jailed guerrillas for hostages.

  • 01/02/2012 | Latin America

    Colombian rebels delay release of six hostages

    Colombia's largest rebel group said that guerrillas would delay the release of six members of the armed forces held hostage for more than a decade due to military activity in the area.

  • 11/02/2011 | Latin America

    Colombian guerrillas free two more hostages

    Colombian FARC rebels freed a kidnapped politician and a marine in the latest hostage release the guerrillas call a humanitarian gesture, the International Committee of the Red Cross said.

  • 26/11/2011 | Latin America

    Colombia says FARC rebels execute 4 military hostages

    Colombian FARC rebels killed at least four military hostages who had been held prisoner for years, Colombia's defense minister said.

  • 27/11/2011 | Latin America

    FARC rebels execute 4 military hostages

    Colombian FARC rebels executed four members of the security forces during a botched mission to free them from a decade as hostages, the most violent act by the group since troops killed its leader Alfonso Cano this month.


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