Hostage Yana's last first day
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September 1 was to have been a festive day for Yana.
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BESLAN, Russia - A respected pediatrician negotiated through the night to end a standoff with militants who threatened to blow up a school they seized 24 hours before with about 350 hostages, including children, trapped inside.    Crowds of distraught relatives and townspeople waited helplessly for news of their loved ones as the crisis entered its second day Thursday with no sign of a resolution...
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JERUSALEM, July 4 -- An ebullient and relieved Alan Johnston, the BBC correspondent set free Wednesday after 114 days as a captive in the Gaza Strip, suggested the turning point that led to his release was Hamas's takeover of the strip.
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Alan Johnston, the BBC journalist held hostage in the Gaza Strip since March, was handed over by his Islamist captors to ruling Hamas officials in the early hours of Wednesday, Reuters journalists who saw him said.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Kidnappers came for Petit-FrÃÂ¨re Desilus in the early afternoon, as he was driving away from his office.
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JERUSALEM, July 4 -- An ebullient and relieved Alan Johnston, the BBC correspondent set free Wednesday after 114 days as a captive in the Gaza Strip, suggested that the turning point leading to his release was Hamas's takeover of the strip.
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Afghan kidnappers holding hostage three United Nation workers, including Annetta Flanigan from Northern Ireland, say the progress of negotiations for their release will decide whether they extend a deadline to execute the trio.
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THREE United Nations workers held hostage in Afghanistan for almost four weeks yesterday spoke for the first time about their ordeal and said they had been sustained by thoughts of their friends and family.
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TORONTO -- An armed hostage-taking at Toronto&#39;s busy Union Station ended just before 9 am with a man being shot dead by a police sharpshooter, leaving the hostage shaken but unharmed and the normally bustling area eerily quiet.
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Staff are to receive counselling to help them cope with the ordeal, which involved the families of two employees being held hostage for over 24 hours.
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A Greek bus hostage siege ended in the early hours of this morning when all 23 passengers were safely freed and two Albanian gunmen who had demanded a $1 million ransom surrendered, a police spokesman said.
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The brother of Ken Bigley said yesterday that he had a &quot;gut feeling&quot; the British hostage had been handed over to a more moderate group in Iraq.
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BESLAN, Russia -- The first day of classes following the massacre of more than 330 hostages at a school in this southern Russian city have been abruptly canceled, a principal at one of Beslan&#39;s schools has told CNN.
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Margaret Hassan has been murdered. That is the most probable conclusion from a video given to Al Jazeera yesterday. For one who met her and got to know her, even if just
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Hijackers who took as many as 26 people hostage on a commuter bus on the outskirts of Athens released five of the captives. Police are in negotiations to free the remaining hostages, a spokeswoman said.
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Mourners were preparing on Sunday for the first funerals of more than 330 hostages killed in Russia&#39;s school hostage siege as a top local official reportedly resigned over the crisis.
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The last time Alla Gadiyeva saw her first-grade son and mother â-t the violent climax today of Russia&#39;s 53-hour hostage saga â - was helping them to escape.