Bank robbers seize hostages in Venezuela standoff
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ALTAGRACIA DE ORITUCO, Venezuela  - Armed robbers held more than 30 hostages at a bank in central Venezuela in a standoff with hundreds of police that stretched into a second day on Tuesday with little sign of a breakthrough, officials said.
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Police reveal that almost Â£500,000 was stolen by armed robbers who held a County Down family hostage.
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Venezuela has started a rescue operation in Colombia to secure the release of two hostages held by leftist rebels, an official said on Thursday, after a similar effort led by President Hugo Chavez collapsed last year.
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Gunmen invaded an oilfield control station operated by Royal Dutch Shell in Nigeria's Bayelsa state in the Niger Delta and are holding several people hostage, a company spokesman said on Friday.
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Left-wing Farc rebels kidnap six tourists on Colombia's Pacific coast, authorities in the country say.
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Marxist rebels kept hold of three hostages in Colombia on Monday despite a deal to free them after years in secret camps, worrying Venezuela's leftist President Hugo Chavez who negotiated the handover with the guerrillas.
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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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Two helicopters left Venezuela on Friday in the first leg of an operation that could free three hostages from the jungles of Colombia.
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Police on Wednesday tried to determine what charges to file against the men who held up to 52 hostages in a botched bank robbery in central Venezuela before being detained.
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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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BELFAST - The robbers who pulled off Northern Ireland&#39;s biggest bank robbery dressed as police officers to get into the home of a banker, taking his wife hostage.
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Colombia agreed on Wednesday to allow Venezuelan aircraft to land in the country and pick up three hostages held by Marxist rebels, a breakthrough that could win the captives' quick release.
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Gunmen seized several hostages from an Italian oil supply vessel off the coast of southern Nigeria, security officials said Wednesday.
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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 Venezuelan mother of major league baseball pitcher Ugueth Urbina is kidnapped near Caracas.
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LONDON  - Bank robbers have fled with several million pounds after two bank employees were taken hostage in Northern Ireland&#39;s capital Belfast, security sources revealed.
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French police on Tuesday freed hostages held by armed robbers in a bank in a south Paris suburb after persuading the men to end their siege.