Swiss police hunt hostage-takers
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Swiss police search for three masked men who seized the Spanish consulate in the capital Bern then fled.
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Pakistan security forces searched for two Chinese engineers and their Pakistani guard who were kidnapped Saturday in a tribal area near Afghanistan.
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Iraqi police said an intensive search was under way for two CBS journalists who were kidnapped in the southern city of Basra
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Security forces in Afghanistan have launched a massive search for three United Nations election workers kidnapped in the capital, Kabul.
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20 people, including two leaders, were arrested near Pau in southwestern France in a vast French-Spanish police operation. Explosives, grenades, machine guns, grenade launchers, detonators, bullets and other weapons have been excluded during operation.
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German police are trying to find the perpetrators of an attack on a Jewish nursery in Berlin.
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Police were on Tuesday night hunting for a gang who stole more than Â£20m in what is thought to be the biggest bank raid in British history.
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Belgian police offer a reward of two million euros as they hunt a thief who carried out a huge diamond heist.
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Police hunt a prisoner who escaped from his handcuffs and the custody of Reliance security guards in Fife.
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Afghan police tightened security in the southern city of Kandahar on Sunday as officials searched for an American aid worker, her Afghan driver and their kidnappers.
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By Melissa Eddy Associated Press  BUCHENWALD, Germany -- The hunt begins with a number.
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The hunt was on today for a British man and two of his American colleagues who were kidnapped by gunmen from their house in Baghdad.
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Would-be robbers took six people hostage in a bank south of Paris on Tuesday, but all were released unharmed during several hours of negotiations with authorities, and the gunmen surrendered, police said.
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Palestinian police are searching for an Israeli Arab employee of the CNN network kidnapped in Gaza on Monday. Journalists&#39; organisations have also called for the release of Riad Ali, who was seized by unknown
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Three armed men entered the Spanish consulate in Bern, injuring a guard and briefly holding two people hostage, but escaped before Swiss police mounted a massive security cordon around the building.
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Afghan police have arrested three suspects in the kidnapping of a Briton and two other foreign election workers and are concentrating their search for the victims in a valley north of Kabul, a government source says.
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LIMA, Peru  - Peruvian authorities were trying on  Tuesday to negotiate the surrender of an armed group holding  hostages in a police station, hours after arresting their  leader who had demanded the president's resignation.