Gunmen free Pakistani school children and surrender
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Gunmen who took up to 250 Pakistani school children hostage on Monday in a northwestern town freed them all and surrendered to tribal elders, a government spokesman said.
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At least seven of a dozen children kidnapped on their way to school in Haiti are returned to their families.
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About 200 chidlren hostages on Friday managed to escape the school when Russian special forces stormed the school seized by gunmen Wednesday morning and hostage-takers tried to flee the school.
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Fighters belonging to an armed nationalist group that seized a remote Peruvian police station and took officers and soldiers hostage surrendered to authorities Tuesday and freed their 17 captives, officials said.
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Islamist militants take children and teachers hostage in a school near the Pakistani district of North Waziristan, officials say.
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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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Hundreds of Pakistanis who have fought alongside the Taliban against US-led forces have been released from an Afghan jail. The 368 prisoners, the last of more than 2500 Pakistanis captured during the overthrow
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Two armed men who hijacked a bus carrying two dozen passengers in Athens yesterday, and threatened to blow it up freed their remaining hostages last night and surrendered to police.
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Rival Palestinian security forces began withdrawing from parts of Gaza City and freeing hostages under a new ceasefire deal on Tuesday after a day of gun battles and abductions in which six fighters were killed.
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Would-be robbers took six people hostage in a bank south of Paris on Tuesday, but all were released unharmed during several hours of negotiations with authorities, and the gunmen surrendered, police said.
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The hostage crisis at a school in southern Russian has ended, after a daylong battle between militants and authorities that left at least 100 people dead, many of them children, and hundreds more wounded.
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WANA, Pakistan  - Pro-Taliban militants in northwest Pakistan released 15 paramilitary troops on Tuesday after nearly three weeks in captivity, a tribal elder said.
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Gunmen abducted 10 children after hijacking a school bus and another car Wednesday in brazen daylight assaults, according to local media reports.
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ATHENS -- Two armed Albanian hijackers surrendered and released their hostages early today, 18 hours after seizing a bus in an Athens suburb and threatening to blow it up if authorities did not pay a ransom.
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The two gunmen who had hijacked an Athens-bound commuter bus surrendered to the authorities and released their six remaining captives.
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The hostage crisis in Greece has ended without loss of life with the surrender of two Albanian gunmen who had been holding a group of passengers captive in a bus in the capital, Athens.
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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.