Hostage siege ends peacefully at bank
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Would-be robbers took six people hostage in a bank south of Paris on Tuesday, but all were released unharmed during several hours of negotiations with authorities, and the gunmen surrendered, police said.
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Three foreign UN workers held hostage in Afghanistan were freed unharmed today, almost four weeks after they were abducted at gunpoint on the streets of the capital Kabul.
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ALTAGRACIA DE ORITUCO, Venezuela  - Armed Venezuelan bank robbers fled in an ambulance with a handful of hostages from a police siege in a deal that freed dozens of other captives on Tuesday after a two-day standoff.
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The announcement signaled an end to a wrenching hostage crisis that had gripped South Korea for almost six weeks.
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Gunmen who took up to 250 Pakistani school children hostage in a northwestern town on Monday freed them all and surrendered to tribal elders, a government spokesman said.
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Would-be robbers held about 30 people hostage inside a Venezuelan bank Tuesday amid a lengthy and tense standoff with police
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The hostage crisis at a school in southern Russian has ended, after a daylong battle between militants and authorities that left at least 100 people dead, many of them children, and hundreds more wounded.
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Three foreign UN workers who were taken hostage last month in Afghanistan have been released unharmed, officials say. A senior Afghan official told the BBC one of the kidnappers had been killed and four others seriously wounded in a military operation.
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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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Would-be robbers took eight people hostage in a bank south of Paris on Tuesday, but all were released unharmed during several hours of negotiations with authorities, and the gunmen were arrested, police said.
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ALTAGRACIA DE ORITUCO, Venezuela  - Venezuelan police swooped on an ambulance used by robbers escaping a bank siege on Tuesday, arresting all four men and freeing a group of captives to end a two-day hostage standoff.
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A tense 18-hour hostage drama in an Athens suburb ended without casualties last night when two men who had hijacked a bus and threatened to blow it up surrendered to the police.
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An attempted escape at Boksburg prison in Johannesburg of South Africa has been thwarted and the warders held hostage have been freed, a warder said on Monday.
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The family of a bank official who were being held hostage in north Belfast manage to escape.
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A Greek bus hostage siege ended on  Thursday 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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Palestinian security prisoners ended their hunger strike yesterday as they declared their 19-day protest succeeded in achieving most of their demands.
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As it was previously reported, the gang attacked the homes of two Northern Bank&#39;s officials late Sunday. The robbers took officialsâ families as hostages and stole about â¤22 million in cash prepared for the Northern Bankâs 95 branches and ATMâs.