Spanish Consulate Hostage Takers on the Run
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Three armed intruders, thought to be  robbers, who had taken at least three hostages at the Spanish  consulate in the Swiss capital were on the run Monday after  Swiss police stormed the building, police said.
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Kidnappers in Iraq have again taken several foreigners hostage, this time workers trying to rebuild the country&#39;s telecommunications infrastructure.
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Video image of hostages sitting below explosives strung from basketball hoops in the gymnasium of a school in Beslan, Russia. Photograph: NTV/AP.
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Spanish police arrested three people today suspected of aiding the escape of Islamic militants after the 2004 Madrid train bombings, police said.Comment
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Seven hostages, including two Italian aid workers, were released by two different groups yesterday. It was the second day in a row that foreign hostages were freed, raising hopes for at least 18 others still in captivity.
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Armed robbers escape by arrangement with police after two-day siege, but then turn themselves in
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The US and British embassies in Iraq pressed ahead with efforts to free a Briton and two US citizens kidnapped at gunpoint from their home in Baghdad this week.
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Three Moroccans suspected of links with international Islamic terrorism are held in Spain for trying to obtain explosives.
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Spanish police said on Monday they had  arrested 14 people, thought to be Moroccans, in a wide-ranging  operation against Islamic militants.
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BOSASSO, Somalia  - Somali security forces on Thursday hunted for the kidnappers of two foreign aid workers who were whisked away by gunmen after a firefight into a mountainous region of Puntland, local officials said.
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Spanish police said on Monday they had arrested 14 people, thought to be Moroccans, in a wide-ranging operation against Islamic militants.
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Security forces in Somalia are hunting the gang who seized two aid workers, including a female doctor from Spain.
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The parents of abducted Madeleine McCann fly to Spain to publicise her disappearance.
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Police say they control the Spanish consulate in the Swiss capital - but there is no sign of the intruders.
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The first Westerners were kidnapped in Afghanistan yesterday when three UN election officials were bundled into a car by gunmen who ran their vehicle off the road in the capital Kabul.
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Diplomatic efforts mount as a deadline nears for two French journalists held hostage in Iraq.