Crew of hijacked ship 'unharmed'
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Crew members on a tugboat seized by pirates off the Somali coast are unharmed and have access to food and water, the ship's Danish owner said Wednesday.
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Hijackers have released two more of the around 24 hostages they are holding after seizing a bus in an Athens suburb, bringing the total freed to 12.
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Afghan officials are optimistic that three UN hostages, including a Briton, will be freed unharmed, a government spokesman said. A Taliban splinter group claims it abducted the trio - Annetta Flanigan from
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The 12 crew of an oil industry support vessel are  winched to safety after fire breaks out off Aberdeen.
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A group of 24 Filipino hostages kidnapped more than three weeks ago have been freed, a spokesman for Baco-Liner, their employer, said Tuesday.
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Hijackers who took as many as 26 people hostage on a commuter bus on the outskirts of Athens surrendered early today and all the captives have been freed, Greek police said.
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Rescue operations Friday saved scores of people from two ships that ran aground in stormy waters off the British coast, but efforts to evacuate the injured captain of third distressed vessel had to be called off.
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Three foreign UN workers held hostage in Afghanistan were freed unharmed Tuesday, almost four weeks after they were abducted at gunpoint on the streets
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: The crew of an Australian navy frigate rescued 15 Indonesian sailors moments after their freighter sank in the Java Sea, the naval commander said on Saturday.
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The crew of an Indonesian cargo vessel hang on until rescuers from HMAS Anzac arrive. Fifteen people on board the vessel were rescued.
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Five sailors were rescued yesterday after surviving for seven days adrift in a life raft in storm-tossed seas. The group, including two Britons, had run out of supplies of food and water.
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An Italian priest kidnapped almost six weeks ago in the Philippines by Islamic militants was released unharmed early Friday, the Italian prime minister and officials here said.
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A coastal rescue team saved 34 passengers and two crew from a ferry in Devon that broke free of its guide cables in bad weather and began drifting out to sea, the coastguard said.
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Police in the Canary Islands arrest a man as the hijacking of a Mauritanian plane ends safely, officials say.
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Twenty crew have been rescued from a ship which is listing in the Channel about 35 miles off the Devon coast.
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Three foreign UN 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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Pirates hijack a Russian tug off the coast of Somalia and hold the crew captive, officials say.