Six people taken hostage in Paris bank
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Two men who burst into a bank in a  Paris suburb near Europe&#39;s biggest wholesale food market took four employees and two customers hostage Tuesday, police and the bank said.
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Two French journalists have been taken hostage in Iraq by Islamic militants demanding the rescission of a ban on the Islamic headscarf in French schools, the Arabic satellite news channel Al-Jazeera reported.
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Kidnappers seized six Egyptians and four Iraqis working for the country's mobile phone company, authorities said Friday, and Muslim leaders in Britain announced plans to send negotiators to Baghdad in hopes of winning the release of hostage Kenneth Bigley.
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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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Gunmen who held dozens of hostages inside a Venezuelan bank for more than a day fled in an ambulance but were caught Tuesday along a roadside, where they surrendered and freed their last five captives.
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Nigerian gunmen kidnapped six foreign  staff of United Company RUSAL after blowing up their apartment  with explosives in the southeastern town of Ikot Abasi,  security sources said on Sunday.
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LONDON  - Bank robbers have fled with several million pounds after two bank employees were taken hostage in Northern Ireland&#39;s capital Belfast, security sources revealed.
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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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Gunmen kidnapped six workers from an Italian oil production facility off the coast of Nigeria on Friday, forcing Italy's ENI to halt production of 50,000 barrels per day, authorities said.
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A dozen French peacekeepers have been arrested on suspicion of robbing a bank they had been ordered to guard in the Ivory Coastâs rebel territory .
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Twelve French soldiers were arrested for a robbery of a Central Bank of West African States (BCEAO) branch in Cote d&#39;Ivoire, a spokesman for French military said Monday.
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As it was previously reported, the gang attacked the homes of two Northern Bank&#39;s officials late Sunday. The robbers took officialsâ families as hostages and stole about â¤22 million in cash prepared for the Northern Bankâs 95 branches and ATMâs.
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BELFAST -- In one of the world's biggest robberies, thieves took the families of two top bankers hostage and forced the bosses to help them steal more than $39 million from the vaults of a Belfast bank's main office, authorities said yesterday.
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In one of the world's biggest robberies, thieves took the families of two top bankers hostage and forced the bosses to help them steal more than &#36;39 million from the vaults of a Belfast bank's main office, authorities said Tuesday.
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An armed gang who fled with hostages after freeing 30 people held at a bank in Venezuela are captured.
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BELFAST, Dec. 21 -- Thieves took hostage the families of two top bankers and forced the officials to help them steal more than $39 million from the vaults of a Belfast bank&#39;s main office, authorities said Tuesday.
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A gang held the families of two Northern Ireland bank officials hostage for 24 hours before stealing about 20 million pounds (&#36;39 million) in one of Britain's biggest robberies, police said on Tuesday.