Athens Hostage Drama Ends Without Violence
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ATHENS, Greece - A hostage standoff ended near Athens, Greece (search), seemingly without a shot fired, nearly 19 hours after two gunmen seized a bus carrying 26 people and threatened to blow it up.
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Three men arrested in connection with the killing of a doorman in Londonderry are released without charge.
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A woman hostage gets off a hijacked bus as special police forces surround it in eastern Athens Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2004. A Greek public bus with about 26 people aboard was hijacked and shots were fired at police.
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TORONTO -- An armed hostage-taking at Toronto&#39;s busy Union Station ended just before 9 am with a man being shot dead by a police sharpshooter, leaving the hostage shaken but unharmed and the normally bustling area eerily quiet.
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TWO armed hijackers have released the six remaining hostages being held on a bus near Athens. The gunmen - thought to be Albanians - left the bus after throwing out their rifle, pistol and a sack of grenades, the Greek Net television station reported.
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Philippine police stormed a courtroom to end a 24-hour hostage standoff Wednesday, freeing all four captives who were held by a movie stuntman and his common-law wife. The gunman was killed when he dropped a grenade during the confrontation.
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A roadside bomb blast targeting a police  convoy in Athens early on Friday caused no injuries but alarmed  authorities who had been insisting that Greece's leftist  guerrillas were defeated.
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The Greek capital allayed all fears of a city not ready for the 28th Olympiad.
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A bomb exploded Tuesday near the culture minister&#039;s home in central Athens, causing no injuries but raising concern that far-left militant groups could be staging a comeback in Greece.
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A police anti-terror operation in The Hague has ended with the arrest of two suspects after a violent 14-hour siege, Dutch officials say.
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Athens - The two armed men who hijacked a commuter bus outside Athens for over 18 hours had no explosives on them despite their threats to blow up the bus, the Greek police chief said Thursday, after the stand-off ended peacefully.
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A Greek bus hostage siege ended today when all 23 passengers were safely freed and two Albanian gunmen who had demanded a $1 million ransom surrendered, a police spokeswoman said.
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All the three UN hostages were released unharmed and without any deal with the hostage takers, Afghan Interior Minister announced here Tuesday.
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Greek police disclosed Thursday that they received a bomb threat before the Olympic Games' opening ceremony, but chose not to evacuate the stadium. The threat turned out to be a hoax, like more than 80 other bomb threats that kept officials busy during the games.
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A moderate earthquake rattled northwestern Greece on Thursday, but no injuries or damage were reported, authorities said.
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Two Albanian gunmen who hijacked a  packed Greek bus and threatened to blow it up turned out to be  bluffing because they did not have any explosives, Greek police  chief George Angelakos said on Thursday.