FILIPINO REBELS HOLD HOSTAGES AS HUMAN SHIELDS
By BULLIT MARQUEZ Government troops take their positions as about 200 Muslim rebels, enraged by a broken peace deal with the Philippine government, held scores of hostages as human shields…
Hostage situations
WOMAN TAKEN HOSTAGE IN MALI BACK IN TIMBUKTU
By RUKMINI CALLIMACHI FILE – In this April 24, 2012 file photo, released Swiss hostage Beatrice Stockli, left, arrives by helicopter from Timbuktu, Mali after being handed over by a militant…
GERMANY: MAN TAKES 3 HOSTAGES AT CITY HALL
Onlookers stand in front of the city hall in Ingolstadt, Germany, Monday, Aug. 19, 2013, after a man has taken several hostages in the city hall of Ingolstadt. Police spokesman…
POLICE KILL LA. BANK HOSTAGE TAKER; 1 HOSTAGE DIES
By HOLBROOK MOHR Investigators work throughout the early morning hours Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2013 at the Tensas State Bank branch in St. Joseph, La., where a gunman took three people…
FRENCH FAMILY OF 7 TAKEN HOSTAGE IN CAMEROON FREED
By DIVINE NTARYIKE and LORI HINNANT French President Francois Hollande speaks at the Elysee Palace in Paris , Friday, April 19, 2013. A French family with four young children kidnapped…
1 OF 2 MASS. BOMB SUSPECTS DEAD; SUBURBS SHUT DOWN
By EILEEN SULLIVAN, MEGHAN BARR and KATIE ZEZIMA An FBI official arrives at the Watertown neighborhood of Boston, Friday, April 19, 2013. Reports of explosives being detonated and police are…
FRANCE CONFIRMS DEATH OF AL-QAIDA CHIEF ABOU ZEID
GREG KELLER French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, left, and Mali’s Foreign Minister Tieman Coulibaly, right, pose for journalists after a meeting in Lyon, central France, Tuesday, March 19, 2013. (AP…
SYRIAN REBELS TREATED UN HOSTAGES LIKE ‘GUESTS’
By JIM GOMEZ CORRECTS DAY HOSTAGES WERE RELEASED TO SATURDAY INSTEAD OF FRIDAY- Armed Forces of the Philippines spokesperson Col. Arnulfo Burgos Jr. gestures as he talks to reporters about…