Venezuelan bank robbers arrested, hostages freed
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ALTAGRACIA DE ORITUCO, Venezuela  - Venezuelan police swooped down on an ambulance used by robbers escaping a bank siege on Tuesday, arresting all four men and freeing a group of captives to end a two-day hostage standoff.
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Three foreign U.N. workers held hostage  in Afghanistan were freed unharmed on Tuesday, almost four  weeks after their abduction at gunpoint on a Kabul street  raised fears of a wave of Iraq-style kidnappings.
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President Hugo ChÃ¡vez of Venezuela announced Thursday that Colombian guerrillas had freed two high-profile hostages from captivity.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Wednesday Colombian rebels are ready to free two hostages, telling him the location they can be picked up from.
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Kidnappers freed six foreigners Wednesday, including an American boat captain, abducted in a nightclub raid in Nigeria's southern oil region, the government said.
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All Royal Dutch Shell contractors kidnapped in Nigeria this week have been freed by their captors, a company spokeswoman said on Wednesday.
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Two hostages freed by Colombian rebels arrive in Venezuela after several years in captivity.
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Two helicopters sent by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez landed in Colombia Friday on a delicate mission to pluck three hostages from the rebel-held jungle.
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More than 100 fighters belonging to an armed nationalist group that seized a remote Peruvian police station and took officers and soldiers hostage surrendered to authorities Tuesday and freed their 17 captives, officials said.
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Helicopters sent by Venezuela's president picked up two hostages freed by Colombian rebels in the jungle Thursday and flew the women across the border in a mission that could open a new path to freedom for dozens of captives.
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BELFAST -- In one of the world's biggest robberies, thieves took the families of two top bankers hostage and forced the bosses to help them steal more than $39 million from the vaults of a Belfast bank's main office, authorities said yesterday.
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Gunmen who held dozens of hostages inside a Venezuelan bank for more than a day fled in an ambulance but were caught Tuesday along a roadside, where they surrendered and freed their last five captives.
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BELFAST, Dec. 21 -- Thieves took hostage the families of two top bankers and forced the officials to help them steal more than $39 million from the vaults of a Belfast bank&#39;s main office, authorities said Tuesday.
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SAN JOSE DEL GUAVIARE, Colombia, Jan 10 - Marxist rebels freed two women hostages from Colombia's jungle on Thursday in a deal brokered by Venezuela's leftist president, Hugo Chavez, that could mark a breakthrough in peace efforts.
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Two hostages freed by Colombian rebels arrive in Venezuela, bringing an end to years of captivity.
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MOSCOW - Russian police on Thursday freed several hostages being held by twin brothers fleeing the army who earlier killed two police officers.
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Colombia's FARC rebels will release three more hostages, all former local lawmakers, to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez after he brokered the release of two captives last month, according to a rebel statement given to local Noticias Uno television on Saturday.