Police Shoot and Kill Hostage Taker in Toronto
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Toronto police shot and killed a man who was holding a woman hostage in the city&#39;s business core on Wednesday, ending a standoff that brought morning rush-hour traffic to a gridlocked standstill.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti  - Haitian police and U.N.  troops shot and killed three rebels, and another group of  rebels retaliated by briefly holding a group of policemen  hostage on Wednesday.
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LIMA, Peru  - Four police officers died on Sunday  in a shootout with an armed group that took over a police  station in a southern Peruvian town on New Year's Day and held  10 hostages, doctors said.
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Gunmen captured 21 Iraqi policemen and shot them in cold blood on Sunday, a day after attacks on security forces that killed 34 people, police said.
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Police said at least one suspect has taken an unknown number of people hostage at the Mexican Consulate near downtown Los Angeles.
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Iraqi police killed three insurgents on Thursday during a gunbattle in a northwestern Baghdad neighborhood that was a flashpoint of violence earlier this week, a city police officer said.
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Police in the Philippines storm a Manila courtroom, killing a gunmen to end a day-long hostage drama, officials say.
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TORONTO (CP) - An armed hostage-taking at the height of morning rush-hour in front of Toronto's busy Union Station on Monday morning ended with a police sharpshooter killing a male suspect, broadcast reports said.
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KARACHI, Pakistan - Paramilitary police killed a suspected top al-Qaida operative Sunday in a four-hour gunbattle at a house in southern Pakistan that also led to the arrest of two other men, the information minister said.    Amjad Hussain Farooqi had been wanted for his alleged role in the kidnapping and beheading of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in 2002 and two assassination attempts against President Gen...
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Gunmen attacked a police station in the  western Iraqi town of Haditha on Sunday, took 21 policemen  hostage and later shot them dead, police said.
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KARACHI (Pakistan) - Paramilitary police have killed a suspected top Al-Qaeda operative wanted for his alleged role in the slaying of a Wall Street Journal reporter and two assassination attempts against President Pervez Musharraf, the Information
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A man dragged a woman from a taxi by the hair and opened fire with a handgun when three people came to her aid on Monday, killing one person and wounding two in the Australian city of Melbourne, police and witnesses said.
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GOWANDA, N.Y. - A western New York man said to be grieving the death of a family member took a bartender hostage Monday and opened fire on police during a four-hour standoff that ended only after he passed out drunk, authorities said.
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A man took a woman hostage in an airport hotel room early Wednesday and shot through the wall at police, hitting one officer and sparking a standoff before apparently shooting himself, authorities said.
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KARACHI, Pakistan - Paramilitary police killed a suspected top al-Qaida operative, wanted for alleged involvement in the kidnapping of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, during a four-hour shootout Sunday at a southern Pakistan house, the information minister said. At least two other men were arrested...
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Police may have killed a suspected top al Qaida operative today in a four-hour gun battle at a house in southern Pakistan that also led to the arrest of two other men.
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Unidentified gunmen killed a police official in this northern Iraqi city, provincial authorities said.