Eight Georgians abducted in Georgian breakaway region: police
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Armed men abducted eight Georgian civilians in Georgia's breakaway region of South Ossetia, an area that last month saw fighting between Tbilisi and Ossetian forces, police said.
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Aug. 18 (Bloomberg) -- South Ossetia accused Georgian soldiers of attacking a village after several days of shelling in the border area, Interfax reported, citing the government of the breakaway region.
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Eight people have been arrested under anti-terrorism legislation during early morning raids in Birmingham, west central England, police said.
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Three members of Iraqi interim prime minister Ayad Allawi&#39;s family were abducted from their Baghdad home, police said Wednesday.
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Five out of 13 Ethiopians believed to have been kidnapped with five Britons in the remote Afar region have been found by the security forces, the state news agency said.
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Fifteen foreigners, including 11 French nationals, two Britons 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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Police arrested eight people on Wednesday in Birmingham on suspicion of committing, preparing or instigating terrorism, West Midlands Police said.Comment
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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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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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Elite troops kill eight kidnappers during fierce gunfight in south-west of the country.
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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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Eight terror suspects accused of planning a kidnapping were arrested in pre-dawn raids Wednesday, police said.Comment
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British police arrested eight people in a major anti-terrorism swoop on Wednesday which media reports said had thwarted a plot to kidnap a young man and carry out an "Iraq-style" execution.
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Police were holding eight people on  Tuesday, at least four of them foreign doctors, over a  suspected al Qaeda plot against Britain that triggered a  manhunt reaching as far as Australia.
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Police in central England arrested eight people in a major security swoop on Wednesday which a defense source said involved a plot to kidnap and possibly kill a Muslim British soldier.Comment
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Kathmandu, Sept 19 (PTI) Suspected maoist rebels have abducted more than 100 students and teachers from three schools in western and eastern districts of Nepal over the weekend, media reports said today.
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Spanish police arrested eight youths Wednesday on suspicion of committing urban violence in the northern Basque region, the interior ministry said.