Hostage Standoff Continues in Greece
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Two gunmen hijacked a bus with 25 passengers on board today, demanding $1 million dollars and a plane to fly them to Russia.
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Three unidentified assailants were locked in a standoff Monday with police after storming the Spanish consulate and taking several people hostage, Swiss authorities said, in what Spanish officials called an attempted robbery.
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The hostage crisis in Greece has ended without loss of life with the surrender of two Albanian gunmen who had been holding a group of passengers captive in a bus in the capital, Athens.
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Police take cover as they surround a bus in eastern Athens early Wednesday Dec. 15, 2004. A Greek public bus with about 27 people aboard was hijacked and shots were fired at police.
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ALTAGRACIA DE ORITUCO, Venezuela  - Four robbers with pistols refused to give up about 30 hostages, including a pregnant woman and children, on Tuesday in a standoff with hundreds of heavily-armed police at a bank in central Venezuela.
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ATHENS, Greece Formal charges, and an appeal for calm. They&#39;re the latest developments in the arrests of two Albanian immigrants charged with staging an 18-hour bus hijacking and hostage siege in Athens.
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A Greek bus hostage siege ended  peacefully on Thursday when all 23 passengers were freed and  police revealed the two armed Albanian hijackers had been  bluffing when they threatened to blow up the bus.
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Seven passengers have been released from the bus hijacked by two gunmen carrying 26 passengers on the outskirts of Athens. Shots were fired at police who surrounded it on the outskirts of Athens.
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THE Government faced a new hostage crisis last night after a Briton running an aid agency was kidnapped by an unidentified armed group.
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As the standoff gripped the nation, Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis postponed his departure for a European Union summit in Brussels by one day until Thursday.
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Two foreign gunmen carrying explosives  hijacked a Greek bus with 26 passengers on Wednesday and  demanded to go to Russia, one of the hostages said.
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The family of a British hostage in Iraq wait for news after his captors reportedly repeat a threat to kill him.
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The government asked its citizens not to retaliate against immigrants Thursday, a day after two Albanian gunmen hijacked a bus. The 18-hour standoff near Athens ended peacefully early Thursday after police
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At least one gunman has taken about two dozen passengers hostage on a bus in the Greek capital Athens, police say. Armed officers have surrounded the vehicle in the suburb of Marathon.
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ATHENS, Dec 15  - Gunmen who commandeered a bus near Athens and demanded a ransom and safe conduct out of the country released four men and one woman Wednesday, police said, bringing to 17 the total number of passengers set free.
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GREEK police are involved in an armed stand-off with hijackers who have seized a passenger bus in Athens and are demanding to fly to Russia.
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Iraq&#39;s hostage crisis continued Thursday, with one group of insurgents saying it had killed 11 Iraqi national guardsmen, another saying it had kidnapped a Polish worker