Eight Georgians abducted in Georgian breakaway region: police
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TBILISI : Armed men abducted eight Georgian civilians in Georgia&#39;s breakaway region of South Ossetia, an area that last month saw fighting between Tbilisi and Ossetian forces, police said.
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China's official Xinhua news agency said Tuesday that eight Chinese had gone missing in Iraq last week, citing local sources in Baghdad.
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Taliban insurgents ambushed a police patrol in southern Afghanistan killing eight, a police commander said, while a suicide bombing and another gunfight claimed four more officers in a weekend of violence.
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Gunmen seized three eastern European workers in the latest kidnapping to hit Nigeria's southern oil region, police said Monday. The men were abducted late Sunday in the region's main city of Port Harcourt, Rivers State police spokeswoman Irejua Barasua said.
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British police carried out a major nationwide anti-terrorism operation on Wednesday, arresting eight people in a series of dawn raids which media reports said had thwarted a significant planned attack.
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Nearly 30 people are being held in Georgia on suspicion of plotting a coup against the government, officials say.
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Eight people are arrested in Birmingham after anti-terror raids targeting what sources say was a kidnap plot.
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Greek police surrounded a bus full of passengers seized by armed hijackers along a highway from an Athens suburb Wednesday, police said.
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Georgian authorities detained four Russian military officers on spying charges Wednesday, and security forces surrounded Russia's military headquarters in Tbilisi to demand that another suspect be handed over, the interior minister said.
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Four people are reported to have been killed in clashes in Georgia's breakaway region of South Ossetia.
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A man who killed eight students and injured four others was seized at 4 pm Friday by local police in Ruzhou, a city in central China&#39;s Henan Province.
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Five Europeans and 13 Ethiopians have been kidnapped by an unidentified group in northeastern Ethiopia, police announced here Friday, after conflicting reports that up to 20 foreigners had been abducted.
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Police have raided Georgian businesses in Moscow after Russia cut transport links with its southern neighbor, escalating a crisis between the two states.
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Fifteen foreigners, including 11 French nationals, a Briton and an Italian, are believed to have been kidnapped in a remote and inhospitable area of Ethiopia where separatist rebels operate.
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Greek police surrounded a bus carrying  26 passengers that was seized by two armed hijackers along a  highway from an Athens suburb on Wednesday, police said.
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Georgia's president claimed Thursday that his troops established control over a rebellious region after three days of clashes, but the defiant local leader targeted in the armed operation escaped.
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Eight terror suspects accused of planning a kidnapping were arrested in pre-dawn raids Wednesday, police said.