Venezuelan bank siege in second day
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Fears mount of bloody end to standoff in which armed robbers hold 30 hostages
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Pakistani forces today battled with militants holed up in basement rooms of the compound for a second full day.
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Maoist rebels kept vehicles off roads leading to Nepal's capital for a second day on Thursday and residents said fuel was being rationed and food prices had begun to rise.
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A second explosion rocked an underground gas storage facility early Friday, forcing authorities to expand evacuations around the blaze that continued burning a day after an initial blast.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Rafael Chavez Frias left here Saturday afternoon for Jinan to start the second leg of his five-day China tour in east China&#39;s Shandong Province.
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A leftist rebel group, the Popular Revolutionary Army, said it bombed Mexican oil and gas pipelines this week in the second such attack in two months, Mexican media said on Tuesday.
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ALTAGRACIA DE ORITUCO, Venezuela  - Venezuelan bank robbers with pistols and a hand-grenade agreed to give up most of their hostages on Tuesday and drive away from a two-day-old siege in an ambulance with a few captives, officials said.
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Two people were wounded after a second bomb exploded in Nepal's capital on Friday, the third day of a blockade of the commercial center called by Maoist rebels.
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Venezuela has started a rescue operation in Colombia to secure the release of two hostages held by leftist rebels, an official said on Thursday, after a similar effort led by President Hugo Chavez collapsed last year.
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Kenyans faced a second day of protests on Thursday as the opposition called for more rallies against President Mwai Kibaki's disputed re-election.
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A second 24-hour postal strike is underway as part of a continuing row over pay and job security.
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Police clashed with militants on Monday  in the second shootout in as many days in Kuwait, which has  been battling a surge in al Qaeda-linked violence.
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ALTAGRACIA DE ORITUCO, Venezuela  - Armed Venezuelan bank robbers sped away from a police siege on Tuesday in an ambulance with a handful of hostages after a deal that freed dozens of other captives in a two-day standoff.
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Police clashed with militants on Monday in the second shootout in as many days in Kuwait, which has been battling a surge in al Qaeda-linked violence.
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Hundreds of police fired water cannon and tear gas at demonstrators seeking to force the prime minister from office in a second day of protests, but he stood his ground Wednesday and said his government ...Comment
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people and stoking fears that sectarian divisions over when to hold elections could unleash further bloodshed. In a second dawn attack in the capital on Friday, guerrillas killed at
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Second powerful earthquake in as many days triggers regional tsunami warning.