2 taken hostage in Chicago standoff
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Two women were taken hostage inside their Chicago apartment building early Thursday, sparking a police standoff that stretched more than six hours on Thanksgiving morning.
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A senior Iraqi official says two Americans and one British contractor were seized from their central Baghdad home and taken hostage.
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Detectives link a gun attack on a County Antrim police station to the hostage taking of a family of five.
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The second of two American hostages in Iraq has been beheaded by a militant outfit headed by Al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, reports Arabic television channel Aljazeera quoting a statement on a Muslim extremist website.
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Gunmen kidnapped two Americans and a  Briton from a house in an affluent central Baghdad neighborhood  Thursday, the latest in a nearly six-month campaign of  abductions of foreigners in Iraq.
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Gunmen kidnapped two Americans and a  Briton from a house in an affluent central Baghdad neighborhood  on Thursday, the latest in a nearly six-month campaign of  abductions of foreigners in Iraq.
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The US embassy confirmed Thursday that two Americans and one Briton were kidnapped in Baghdad. &quot;Two American citizens, Jack Hensley and Eugene &#39;Jack&#39; Armstrong, were kidnapped
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GUNMEN stormed a mobile phone company office in Baghdad and seized two Egyptian employees, Government officials said today. The kidnapping happened last night in the upscale Harthiya neighborhood, said Interior
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Insurgents threatened to behead two Americans and a Briton captured in Baghdad on Saturday and launched a suicide car bomb attack on Iraqi security forces in the northern
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A group led by Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi said yesterday that it had executed a second American hostage in as many days and threatened to kill a British man
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An al-Qaida linked group threatened in a videotape to behead two Americans, Jack Hensley and Eugene Armstrong, and Kenneth Bigley of Britain within two days.
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BAGHDAD : Two Americans and a Briton were kidnapped from their smart Baghdad home, as the two main powers behind last year&#39;s invasion became the latest victims of a five-month-old hostage crisis.
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A handful of people were still being held hostage by two armed, masked men who hijacked a bus near the Greek capital and were threatening to blow it up.
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Three unidentified assailants were locked in a standoff Monday with police after storming the Spanish consulate and taking several people hostage, Swiss authorities said, in what Spanish officials called an attempted robbery.
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ATHENS, Greece - A hostage standoff ended near Athens, Greece (search), seemingly without a shot fired, nearly 19 hours after two gunmen seized a bus carrying 26 people and threatened to blow it up.
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At least one suspect took an unknown number of hostages Tuesday at the Mexican consulate, and a TV news camera later showed a man apparently being shot as he held a woman by the neck.
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The victim was identified as Eugene Armstrong, an American, who was seized along with another American and a Briton.