Venezuela robbers free most hostages, drive off
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ALTAGRACIA DE ORITUCO, Venezuela  - Venezuelan bank robbers carrying pistols and a hand-grenade sped away on Tuesday from a police siege in an ambulance with a handful of hostages after a deal that freed tens of other captives in a two-day standoff.
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Colombia's Marxist rebels are set to free two women hostages to Venezuela after a previous mission to pick them up collapsed on New Years Eve, Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez said on Wednesday.
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By Marco Aquino ANDAHUAYLAS, Peru  - An armed group of ex-militarynationalists released their hostages and surrendered onTuesday, four days after seizing a police station and part of aPeruvian town to demand the president's resignation.
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Seven truck drivers taken hostage in Iraq over a month ago have been released, according to their employer, Kuwait and Gulf Link Transport company.
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Two Venezuelan helicopters and their crews waited in central Colombia Saturday morning for directions as to where in the jungle to fly to pick up three hostages being freed by leftist rebels.
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Fighters belonging to an armed nationalist group that seized a remote Peruvian police station and took officers and soldiers hostage surrendered to authorities Tuesday and freed their 17 captives, officials said.
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SAN JOSE DEL GUAVIARE, Colombia  - Marxist rebels freed two women hostages held for years in Colombia's jungle in a Venezuelan-brokered deal on Thursday, raising hopes for dozens of other captives languishing in secret camps.
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Colombia's FARC rebels will release three more hostages, all former local lawmakers, to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez after he brokered the release of two captives last month, according to a rebel statement given to local Noticias Uno television on Saturday.
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ALTAGRACIA DE ORITUCO, Venezuela  - Armed robbers held more than 30 hostages at a bank in central Venezuela in a standoff with hundreds of police that stretched into a second day on Tuesday with little sign of a breakthrough, officials said.
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SEVEN truck drivers from Egypt, Kenya and India held hostage in Iraq since July 21 and working for a Kuwaiti firm have been released, Al-Arabiya television has reported.
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SAN JOSE DEL GUAVIARE, Colombia, Jan 10 - Marxist rebels freed two women hostages from Colombia's jungle on Thursday in a deal brokered by Venezuela's leftist president, Hugo Chavez, that could mark a breakthrough in peace efforts.
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MOSCOW - Russian police on Thursday freed several hostages being held by twin brothers fleeing the army who earlier killed two police officers.
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Fears mount of bloody end to standoff in which armed robbers hold 30 hostages
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President Hugo Chavez said Wednesday that he hopes three hostages will be freed by Colombian rebels within hours, and that Venezuela has planes and helicopters ready to retrieve them.
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Armed robbers escape by arrangement with police after two-day siege, but then turn themselves in
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A daylong hostage siege ended early yesterday 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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Would-be robbers took six people hostage in a bank south of Paris on Tuesday, but all were released unharmed during several hours of negotiations with authorities, and the gunmen surrendered, police said.