Hostages Leave Spanish Consulate in Berne-Police
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Three armed men, suspected robbers, were thought to be trapped in the Spanish consulate in the Swiss capital Berne Monday but three of their hostages had left the building, police said.
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An armed man took a female hostage  at the Mexican Consulate in Los Angeles on Tuesday, but he was  shot by police and the woman escaped unharmed, according to  television video.
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ALTAGRACIA DE ORITUCO, Venezuela  - Venezuelan police swooped on an ambulance used by robbers escaping a bank siege on Tuesday, arresting four men and freeing a group of hostages held in the getaway vehicle.
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BESLAN, Russia - Camouflage-clad commandos carried crying babies away from a school where gunmen holding hundreds of hostages freed at least 26 women and children Thursday during a second day of high drama that kept crowds of distraught relatives on edge.    Men and women wept with disappointment or hugged each other with relief as a man read the names of the freed hostages over a loudspeaker...
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Police say they control the Spanish consulate in the Swiss capital - but there is no sign of the intruders.
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Seven hostages, including two Italian aid workers, were released by two different groups yesterday. It was the second day in a row that foreign hostages were freed, raising hopes for at least 18 others still in captivity.
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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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Spectators are evacuated from Real Madrid's Bernabeu stadium following a bomb scare.
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Gunmen kidnapped two Spanish aid workers with the international agency Doctors Without Borders, their driver and a local official said.
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Gunmen on Monday took hostage about 30 students and teachers at a high school in volatile northwestern Pakistan, police said.
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Two of Spain's most wanted alleged terrorists and at least 16 other suspected members of the armed Basque separatist group ETA were captured Sunday in a vast French-Spanish police operation, authorities said.
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About 20 children taken hostage at a school in north-west Pakistan after police shootout
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Four armed inmates were holding a prison administrator, his secretary and two female guards hostage Wednesday in western Honduras, police said. They were demanding a getaway car.
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BAYONNE, France  - Two of Spain's most wanted alleged terrorists and at least 16 other suspected members of the armed Basque separatist group ETA were captured Sunday in a vast French-Spanish police operation, authorities said.
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Iraqi police said an intensive search was under way for two CBS journalists who were kidnapped in the southern city of Basra
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Spanish police arrested three people today suspected of aiding the escape of Islamic militants after the 2004 Madrid train bombings, police said.Comment
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At least 25 students were taken hostage in northwest Pakistan Monday by a group of five or six suspected criminals being pursued by police, police told CNN.