Bus hijackers surrender, 18-hour siege over
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Two armed men who hijacked a public bus and threatened to blow it up surrendered just after midnight Wednesday and released their six remaining hostages, ending an 18-hour standoff.
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The Taliban kidnappers of 23 Korean hostages on Sunday extended the deadline for the South Korean government to agree to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan by 24 hours to 1230 EST on Monday.
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Armed special forces police surround the bus at the end of a hijack siege in eastern Athens early Thursday, Dec. 16, 2004 in this image taken from television.
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An armed group of ex-military nationalists released their hostages and surrendered on Tuesday, four days after seizing a police station and part of a Peruvian town to demand the president's resignation.
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Fourteen people arrested on suspicion of trying to free a convicted al-Qaeda militant are released after 24 hours.
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JANDA, Afghanistan - Taliban militants released the last seven South Korean hostages yesterday under a deal with the government in Seoul, ending a six-week drama that the insurgents claimed as a "great victory for our holy warriors."
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A Greek bus hostage siege ended in the early hours of this morning when all 23 passengers were safely freed and two Albanian gunmen who had demanded a $1 million ransom surrendered, a police spokesman said.
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The two gunmen who had hijacked an Athens-bound commuter bus surrendered to the authorities and released their six remaining captives.
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ATHENS, Greece - A hostage standoff ended near Athens, Greece (search), seemingly without a shot fired, nearly 19 hours after two gunmen seized a bus carrying 26 people and threatened to blow it up.
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A Greek bus hostage siege ended on  Thursday when all 23 passengers were safely freed and two  Albanian gunmen who had demanded a $1 million ransom  surrendered, a police spokeswoman said.
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ARMED police and negotiators were today surrounding a bus after it was hijacked in Athens. Two men with a shotgun - who also claimed to have explosives - had boarded the vehicle at a bus stop.
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A female hostage leaves the bus hijacked by two armed men, thought to be Albanians, just before 6 a.m. yesterday.
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Two armed men who hijacked a busload of hostages at gunpoint in the outskirts of Athens and demanded â¬1m (Â£690,000) ransom surrendered last night.
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ATHENS : Armed men hijacked a bus in an Athens suburb early Wednesday, taking some 20 passengers aboard hostage, a police source said.
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Athens - The two armed men who hijacked a commuter bus outside Athens for over 18 hours had no explosives on them despite their threats to blow up the bus, the Greek police chief said Thursday, after the stand-off ended peacefully.
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A daylong hostage siege ended here early Thursday morning after two gunmen who had hijacked an Athens-bound commuter bus surrendered to the authorities and released their six remaining captives.
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The hostage crisis at a school in southern Russian has ended, after a daylong battle between militants and authorities that left at least 100 people dead, many of them children, and hundreds more wounded.