Peruvian Police Station Hostages Released
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More than 100 fighters belonging to an armed nationalist group that seized a remote Peruvian police station and took officers and soldiers hostage surrendered to authorities Tuesday and freed their 17 captives, officials said.
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The leader of an armed group which took over a police station in a southern Peruvian town three days ago and demanded the president's resignation made a fresh promise on Monday to surrender.
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Russian police forced three inmate hostage-takers to release their 15 captives unharmed Monday after an hours-long standoff at a pretrial detention center in southeast Moscow, said Interfax news agency, quoting prison system director Yuri Kalinin.
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LIMA, Peru  - Peru declared a state of emergency  in the southern Andean town of Andahuaylas on Saturday where an  armed group led by a radical former soldier stormed a police  station and was holding 10 officers hostage.
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ALTAGRACIA DE ORITUCO, Venezuela  - Venezuelan police swooped down 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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LIMA, Peru  - The leader of an armed group which  took over a police station in a southern Peruvian town three  days ago and demanded the president's resignation made a fresh  promise on Monday to surrender.
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LIMA, Peru  - An armed group led by a radical  former soldier stormed a police station in a poor southern town  and took 10 officers hostage on Saturday to demand the  resignation of Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo.
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LIMA, Peru  - Five Peruvian police officers died  in a shootout on Sunday with an armed group who took 10  hostages in the siege of a police station in southern Peru on  New Year's Day, RPP radio reported.
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LIMA, Peru  - An armed group which took over a  police station in southern Peru and killed four officers to  demand the resignation of unpopular President Alejandro Toledo  will not surrender on Monday as planned, its leader 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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President Hugo ChÃ¡vez of Venezuela announced Thursday that Colombian guerrillas had freed two high-profile hostages from captivity.
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LIMA, Peru  - An armed group led by a radical  former soldier stormed a police station in a southern town on  Saturday and took 10 officers hostage to demand the resignation  of Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo.
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ATHENS -- Two armed Albanian hijackers surrendered and released their hostages early today, 18 hours after seizing a bus in an Athens suburb and threatening to blow it up if authorities did not pay a ransom.
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Three workers of the United Nations kidnapped in Afghanistan four weeks ago were released unharmed Tuesday, a day after a string of raids by US and Afghan security forces.
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An Italian volunteer worker kidnapped earlier by an unidentified group in the southern Philippines has been released, the Philippine military said Wednesday.
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The French Foreign Ministry has confirmed that two French journalists held hostage by an Iraqi insurgency group since August have been released.
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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.