Moscow inmates seize hostages
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Two people have been taken hostage during a riot at a pre-trial detention centre in Moscow, reports say.
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A heavily armed gang seized up to 400  hostages at a Russian school near Chechnya Wednesday and  threatened to shoot dead 50 children for any one of their  comrades killed, a senior local official said.
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Russian special services free two people who were held hostage by inmates at a pre-trial detention centre in Moscow.
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Hundreds of federal police and soldiers seized control over the nation's top-security prison Friday amid reports of a planned escape, possible murder plots and a jailhouse alliance between two reputed drug trafficking kingpins.
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Kidnappers armed with AK-47&#39;s and rocket-propelled grenades stormed an office in western Baghdad on Monday, overpowering the armed guards and capturing four
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BESLAN, Russia - Camouflaged security agents carried babies to safety after militants holding hundreds of hostages at a school released at least 31 women and children Thursday, and officials expressed hope that negotiations would bring more progress in the standoff in southern Russia.    But a crowd of hostages' relatives keeping vigil outside the school was shaken when a pair of explosions went off just ahead of the release...
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High-ranking military officials helped the Beslan school hostage-takers, Russian investigators say.
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Security forces raided a Moscow jail and freed the warden and 14 employees several hours after they were seized Monday by inmates wearing guards' uniforms and armed with metal rods, Russian authorities said.
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Three foreign election workers were kidnapped by armed men in the Afghan capital Kabul on Thursday, government sources and election commission officials said.
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Three foreign election workers have been kidnapped in the Afghan capital, Kabul, officials say.
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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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An armed gang holding at least 120  hostages in a school in the southern Russian region of North  Ossetia have freed 15 children, Itar-Tass news agency quoted  officials at the scene as saying Wednesday.
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Russia put a 10-million-dollar price tag on the heads of two Chechen rebel leaders accused of masterminding the hostage-taking which ended in a bloodbath at a Beslan school.
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Authorities have detained two residents of the southern province of Ingushetia on suspicion of being linked to terrorists who held more than 1,000 people hostage in a school in September, officials said Thursday.
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Hostage-takers free 32 women and children but are still holding more than 300  people at a school in Russia.
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Members of a radical, right-wing political party briefly seized a Kremlin-controlled building Tuesday in downtown Moscow to demonstrate against President Vladimir Putin, a security official said.
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Russian special services on Monday freed   all hostages who were being held by inmates at a Moscow prison,   the Interfax news agency reported, citing the head of Russia's   prison service.