Family held hostage as gunmen attack N. Ireland police station
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Hooded gunmen held a family of five hostage while accomplices stole their car to machine-gun a local police station in Northern Ireland, police said.
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Dutch police were laying siege to a house in The Hague today where an unknown number of terrorism suspects were holed up. Three policemen were injured by a hand grenade thrown when a raid was launched on the house, officials said.
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Dutch military special forces laid siege to a house in The Hague after three police officers were injured in a hand-grenade blast during an anti-terrorist raid.
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A County Antrim man says his family is being terrorised after his son is attacked by a gang of men.
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Gunmen stormed a police station in  southern Baghdad Friday, killing 11 policemen and wounding six,  survivors of the attack said.
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Gunmen belonging to a nationalist group that seized a police station in remote southern Peru ambushed a police vehicle responding to the scene Sunday, killing four officers and wounding several more, hospital officials said.
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Gunmen seized 21 men and boys from an extended Shiite Muslim family in a village northeast of Baghdad and killed them execution-style, police said today, as a bloody wave of sectarian violence continued to claim lives two days after a devastating attack on a Shiite district in the capital.
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Gunmen invaded an oilfield control station operated by Royal Dutch Shell in Nigeria's Bayelsa state in the Niger Delta and are holding several people hostage, a company spokesman said on Friday.
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A couple in their 20s escape injury in a gun attack on their house in north Belfast, police say.
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The family of Irish born aid worker Margaret Hassan have said they fear she may have been murdered by her captors. The 59-year-old director of Care International has been held hostage since October 19.
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Armed men killed a policeman in an overnight attack and kidnapped the wife of a prominent politician in southern Nigeria's oil hub Port Harcourt, a military spokesman said Wednesday.
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Dozens of people, many of them women and children, were killed or wounded in attacks across Iraq Wednesday amid reports that more than 60 Iraqi policemen have been kidnapped.
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Two men and a woman are held hostage over night by a gang of up to 10 armed and masked men.
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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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One person is arrested after police come under a "sustained attack" by a crowd in Magherafelt.
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Gunmen wearing police uniforms kidnapped dozens of people after storming a branch of the Red Crescent in central Baghdad on Sunday, a Red Crescent official and witnesses said.
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Unknown militants attacked two police stations near the restive city of Baquba northeast of Baghdad on Friday, witnesses said. The gunmen attacked the two police stations outside