Venezuelan bank robbers arrested, hostages freed
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ALTAGRACIA DE ORITUCO, Venezuela  - Venezuelan police swooped on an ambulance used by robbers escaping a bank siege on Tuesday, arresting all four men and freeing a group of captives to end a two-day hostage standoff.
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ALTAGRACIA DE ORITUCO, Venezuela  - Venezuelan bank robbers with pistols and a hand-grenade refused to give up dozens of hostages, including a pregnant woman and children, on the second day of a standoff with heavily armed police on Tuesday.
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Three foreign U.N. workers held hostage  in Afghanistan were freed unharmed Tuesday, almost four weeks  after they were abducted at gunpoint on the streets of the  capital Kabul, the United Nations said.
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All Royal Dutch Shell contractors  kidnapped in Nigeria this week have been freed by their  captors, a company spokeswoman said on Wednesday.
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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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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said two women held hostage by Colombian rebels for more than six years were freed Thursday, saying he spoke with the former captives by phone and they were being flown out of the jungle.
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More than 100 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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Fears mount of bloody end to standoff in which armed robbers hold 30 hostages
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A gang held the families of two Northern Ireland bank officials hostage for 24 hours before stealing more than 20 million pounds (&#36;39 million) in one of Britain's biggest ever robberies, police said on Tuesday.
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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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ALTAGRACIA DE ORITUCO, Venezuela  - Four robbers with pistols refused to give up about 30 hostages, including a pregnant woman and children, on Tuesday in a standoff with hundreds of heavily-armed police at a bank in central Venezuela.
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BELFAST - The robbers who pulled off Northern Ireland&#39;s biggest bank robbery dressed as police officers to get into the home of a banker, taking his wife hostage.
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Venezuelan authorities seized 2.5 tons of cocaine bound for Africa and arrested nine suspects including four federal police officers and a U.S. citizen, the military said Sunday.
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Colombia's government on Sunday cleared the way for FARC guerrillas to handover three more hostages to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez even as the Andean neighbors quarrel over his role in freeing rebel captives.
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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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Three workers of the United Nations kidnapped in Afghanistan four weeks ago were released unharmed Tuesday, a day after a string of raids by US and Afghan security forces.
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Venezuela says it has made progress on securing the release of three more Farc hostages in Colombia.