Two captors held as Ugandan hostage drama ends without injuries
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Ugandan armed forces on Wednesday stormed a government building in the capital Kampala and freed two civil servants who had been held for several hours by two gunmen, an AFP journalist said.
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Two members of the DR Congo security forces are arrested over the killing of a journalist, police say.
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Two Italian aid workers held hostage in Iraq were freed unhurt last night, three weeks after they were seized from their Baghdad office.
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Afghan kidnappers holding hostage three United Nation workers, including Annetta Flanigan from Northern Ireland, say the progress of negotiations for their release will decide whether they extend a deadline to execute the trio.
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A POLICE siege of a building in The Hague where suspected terrorists have been holed up since yesterday had ended with two people &quot;possibly&quot; arrested, the ANP news agency reported.
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All the three UN hostages were released unharmed and without any deal with the hostage takers, Afghan Interior Minister announced here Tuesday.
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Three United Nations hostages were freed in Afghanistan unharmed and healthy after almost four weeks in captivity amid conflicting claims over whether the government promised to free Taliban prisoners in exchange for their release.
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The four British men freed from Guantanamo Bay are released without charge by police.
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The Afghan Government has said it believes that three kidnapped UN workers are in the hands of criminals and not the Taliban-linked militants who have threatened to kill them.
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The Government is leaving no stone unturned in its attempts to free aid director Margaret Hassan from her captors in Iraq, the DÃ¡il was told today.
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Afghan officials denied Tuesday that they struck a deal with kidnappers who released three foreign U.N. workers unharmed in Kabul.
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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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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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A Greek bus hostage siege ended  peacefully on Thursday when all 23 passengers were freed and  police revealed that the two armed Albanian gunmen had been  bluffing when they threatened to blow up the bus.
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GERAKAS, Greece: A dramatic 19-hour hostage siege on board a bus in Athens ended without bloodshed yesterday after two Albanian gunmen freed the last of their 23 hostages and surrendered.
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A small group of suspected gunmen stormed Uganda's Water Ministry Wednesday and took three people hostage to protest against proposals to allow President Yoweri Museveni for a third term. Police and soldiers with assault rifles cordoned off the three-story building, just 328 feet from Uganda's parliament building in the capital Kampala.
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CARE Internationalâs operations in Iraq remained suspended tonight as kidnapped aid chief Margaret Hassanâs second day in captivity drew to a close with no word on her fate.