Police Shoot and Kill Hostage Taker in Toronto
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Toronto police shot and killed a man who was holding a woman hostage in the city&#39;s business core on Wednesday, ending a standoff that brought morning rush-hour traffic to a gridlocked standstill.
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A woman was shot in the head at a  Toronto-area high school on Friday and police locked down the  school with its students and teachers inside as they searched  for the gunman.
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The British hostage held in Iraq by a militant group led by al-Qaida ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was killed Friday, pan-Arab Abu Dhabi TV reported.
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A gunman took at least two people hostage Wednesday during an attempted bank robbery outside Chicago, authorities said.
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TORONTO: A police sharpshooter shot dead an armed man who held a woman hostage in front of Toronto&#39;s Union Station at the height of morning rush-hour yesterday.
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Paramilitary police killed a suspected top al-Qaida operative, wanted for alleged involvement in the kidnapping of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, during a four-hour shootout Sunday at a southern Pakistan house, the information minister said. At least two other men were arrested.
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Suspected insurgents shot dead a policeman in Nepal's capital on Saturday as the military said it could escort food shipments into the city to ease a rebel-inspired blockade.
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Toronto police shot and killed a man  who was holding a woman hostage in the city's business core on  Wednesday, ending a standoff that brought morning rush-hour  traffic to a gridlocked standstill.
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An armed man took a female hostage  at the Mexican Consulate in Los Angeles on Tuesday, but he was  shot by police and the woman escaped unharmed, according to  television video.
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Police said at least one suspect has taken an unknown number of people hostage at the Mexican Consulate near downtown Los Angeles.
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KARACHI, Pakistan  - Paramilitary police killed a suspected top al-Qaida operative Sunday in a four-hour gun battle at a house in southern Pakistan that also led to the arrest of two other men, the information minister said.
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A gunman who held two girls hostage and   shot one of them at a Colorado high school on Wednesday was   killed by police who stormed the classroom building where he   was barricaded, police said.
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A gunman who shot and injured three people -- including one of two hostages he held in a South African restaurant -- was killed in a shootout on Saturday when police stormed the building, a police spokeswoman said.
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Gunmen killed a Lebanese businessman in his home early Friday in oil-rich southern Nigeria, police said, while attackers tried to ambush a truck carrying several foreign workers in what appeared to be a kidnapping attempt later in the day.
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Suspected insurgents shot dead a  policeman in Nepal's capital on Saturday as the military said  it could escort food shipments into the city to ease a  rebel-inspired blockade.
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Saudi police killed one militant and injured another in a shootout in the capital Riyadh, security sources said on Tuesday. They said a civilian working at a gas station nearby was also
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HARARE -- Police killed a protester and arrested the leader of the main opposition party as they broke up a prayer meeting protesting government policies yesterday. Police spokesman Wayne Bvudzijena said one man was fatally shot when 200 opposition party members attacked about 20 policemen. Three policemen were hospitalized with injuries, Bvudzijena told state television. Police said they arrested Morgan ...