Tourists freed in Peru coca siege
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Police in Peru storm an ancient Inca temple to free foreign 19 tourists taken hostage by coca growers.
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SANTIAGO, Chile  -- Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori was flown to his home country in police custody Saturday, one day after the Chilean Supreme Court authorized his extradition on human rights and corruption charges.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Three UN workers kidnapped in Afghanistan four weeks ago were released unharmed today, a day after a string of raids by US and Afghan security forces.
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Marxist rebels have abducted up to 10 tourists celebrating Christmas at a lakeside spa in north-western Colombia, officials said. Fighters of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc) raided bungalows
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SAN JOSE DEL GUAVIARE, Colombia  - With broad smiles and long hugs for mediators, two women hostages were freed on Thursday by Colombia's Marxist rebels after years in the jungle, raising hopes for others languishing in secret camps.
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A Colombian aid worker and two Afghan colleagues who were abducted in Afghanistan earlier this month were freed, their organisation said.
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LIMA, Peru  - Peruvian authorities on Monday  launched an offensive to retake a police station and end a  three-day siege by former soldiers in a southern Andean town.
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By Jude Webber and Tania Mellado LIMA, Peru  - Peruvian authorities were trying onTuesday to negotiate the surrender of an armed group holdinghostages in a police station, hours after arresting theirleader who had demanded the president's resignation.
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LIMA - Peruvian anti-drug agents seized almost 1,540 pounds of cocaine destined for the Mexico that was hidden inside of a shipment of squid, police said Monday.
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ALTAGRACIA DE ORITUCO, Venezuela  - Venezuelan police swooped on an ambulance used by robbers escaping a bank siege on Tuesday, arresting four men and freeing a group of hostages held in the getaway vehicle.
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The Colombian government begins freeing jailed rebels in a move it hopes will prompt the release of hostages.
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Three U.N. workers kidnapped in Afghanistan have been released unharmed after more than three weeks in captivity, Afghan officials said Tuesday.
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Three foreign UN workers who were taken hostage last month in Afghanistan have been released unharmed, officials say. A senior Afghan official told the BBC one of the kidnappers had been killed and four others seriously wounded in a military operation.
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Marxist rebels in Colombia have freed four hostages, three of whom were held captive for well over three years in the jungle. The four released hostages - two men and two women were flown to Neiva, 150 miles
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Six people held hostage aboard a bus in Athens for 19 hours have been released and their captors have surrendered.
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ALTAGRACIA DE ORITUCO, Venezuela  - Armed Venezuelan bank robbers fled in an ambulance with a handful of hostages from a police siege in a deal that freed dozens of other captives on Tuesday after a two-day standoff.
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Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori, freed on bail after more than six months in a Chilean jail, said Saturday that his political movement is still strong in Peru and promised a political comeback.