Honduran prisoners hold 4 hostage
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Four armed inmates were holding a prison administrator, his secretary and two female guards hostage Wednesday in western Honduras, police said. They were demanding a getaway car.
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Afghan authorities have arrested four  people suspected of being involved in the kidnap of a German  national, an Afghan minister was quoted as saying on Wednesday.
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Thousands of soldiers and police took over Honduras&#39; main cities on Saturday in a show of force to prevent new attacks by youth gangs after gunmen murdered 28 people on a public bus earlier this week.
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The massacre of 28 people near San Pedro Sula in Honduras left many Delawareans who have volunteered there stunned and saddened. Honduran officials said Friday that gunmen
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Gunmen thought to be street gang members opened fire at a packed bus in a Honduran city, killing 28 people, including 4 children.
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Honduran police tonight announced the arrest of two more people in connection with the bus massacre in which 28 were killed and 14 wounded.
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MONTERREY, Mexico - Four women were briefly detained for allegedly seizing a man they were trying to force to marry a former girlfriend he impregnated, police said Thursday.    The 22-year-old man told police the 16-year-old ex-girlfriend, her mother, sister and aunt approached him Tuesday outside the food processing plant where he works and forced him into a taxi...
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Kidnapping has fallen sharply, but 4,040 people are still held by rebels and criminals.
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ANDAHUAYLAS, Peru -- The leader of a paramilitary nationalist group that seized a police station, took 10 officers hostage and allegedly killed four more surrendered late last night as security forces launched an offensive against his followers, an Interior Ministry official said.
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SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador - Imprisoned gang members enraged by a tough new anti-crime law rioted and seized about 100 hostages at two Salvadoran prisons Thursday.
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Four Red Cross staff, two of them foreigners, were held by unknown kidnappers Thursday as military officials announced two Danish soldiers were killed in a new attack by extremist Taliban fighters.
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BAGHDAD -- An insurgent group that has claimed responsibility for a series of hostage-takings threatened yesterday to execute two Americans and a Briton who were kidnapped Thursday unless the United States frees female Iraqi prisoners, the Al-Jazeera satellite channel reported.
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FOUR Iraqi religious leaders, including two imams, appealed today for the release of four aid workers - two Italians and two Iraqis - who were taken hostage in Baghdad overnight.
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Four suspected Basque separatists, including a key bomb-maker, are held in France, Spanish officials say.
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TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras, Dec. 25 -- Authorities on Saturday announced the arrest of two additional suspects in an attack on a bus that killed 28 passengers and wounded 14, while thousands of soldiers searched for other gunmen and families buried the victims.
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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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ALTAGRACIA DE ORITUCO, Venezuela  - Venezuelan police swooped 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.