Police report hostage situation at Mexican Consulate in Los ...
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LOS ANGELES Police say at least one suspect has taken an unknown number of people hostage at the Mexican Consulate near downtown Los Angeles.
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A man with an unknown message for the media sparked a citywide alert Tuesday by briefly taking a female clerk hostage at the Mexican Consulate in Los Angeles before he was shot by police.
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A drug gang has threatened to kill foreign journalists who report on the violence between rival cartels and security forces along the U.S.-Mexico border, media and U.S. officials said on Friday.
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The Mexican government called for an investigation Friday into a shooting by two federal agents that left one person dead at the world&#039;s busiest border crossing. A union representing the Border Patrol agent involved in the shooting defended the officer&#039;s conduct.
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THE pan-Arab television network Al-Jazeera broadcast footage today of a Jordanian truck driver taken hostage in Iraq. The footage showed three masked men standing behind the kneeling hostage, who held his passport in front of him.
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Police were investigating the explosion of two makeshift explosive devices outside the Mexican Consulate in New York on Friday, police said.
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There was confusion over the hostages&#39; nationalities with local police initially saying they were from Britain, the Philippines and Kosovo and were two women and a man.
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Australia is investigating reports that two of its citizens have been taken hostage by militants in Iraq.
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Afghan authorities have arrested three people and seized a car believed to have been used in the kidnapping of three foreigners, government and security sources say, but there was no word on the fate of the hostages.
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A man with an unknown message for  the media sparked a citywide alert on Tuesday by briefly taking  a female clerk hostage at the Mexican Consulate in Los Angeles  before he was shot by police.
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The US State Department recently issued a travel advisory, but Mexicans are being most acutely hurt by the recent security crisis.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - An American and three other foreigners were kidnapped Monday from their office in western Baghdad &quot;in an exchange of fire,&quot; the Interior Ministry spokesman said.
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The Foreign Office said Friday it was urgently checking reports of a kidnapping in Ethiopia, after eleven French nationals and three Britons were reported missing.
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Police shot to death an armed man holding five hostages in a small-town post office west of Paris after a robbery attempt, and the captives were freed unharmed after a three-hour ordeal, the interior minister said.
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An American, along with two Arab nationals and an Asian, were taken hostage on Monday by gunmen in Baghdad, an Iraqi Interior Ministry spokesman said.
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Heavily armed Mexican police, backed by helicopters, locked down the capital's most notorious neighborhood on Tuesday as part of the latest offensive against rampant drug trafficking.
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Embassy hostages kidnapped in Ethiopia released An abandoned vehicle belonging to the group of Europeans who were kidnapped in Ethiopia.Comment