Islamist bombers kill 20 in Niger attacks, seize hostages
Agence France-Presse | Thursday May 23, 2013
Islamist militants staged twin suicide car bombings on an army base and a French-run uranium mine in Niger on Thursday, killing at least 20 people and taking several trainee officers hostage in the impoverished west African state.
Five dead as police helicopter, chasing kidnappers, crashes in Venezuela
Agence France-Presse | Thursday May 23, 2013
A Venezuelan police helicopter crashed Thursday while chasing a car in which kidnappers were holding hostages, and all five people aboard the aircraft died, the police chief said.
North Korea releases detained Chinese sailors, say reports
Agence France-Presse | Tuesday May 21, 2013
North Korea has released 16 Chinese fishermen and their boat, Chinese state-run media said Tuesday, after reports that armed assailants had taken the sailors hostage and demanded a ransom.
US student killed by cop in hostage crisis: Authorities
Associated Press | Sunday May 19, 2013
A New York college student being held by an armed home intruder was shot and killed by a police officer who had responded to a report of a home invasion at an off-campus home, police said on Saturday.
Brothers of Cleveland kidnap suspect hope he 'rots in jail'
Reuters | Tuesday May 14, 2013
Two brothers of a former Cleveland school bus driver accused of holding three women hostage in his house for a decade described Ariel Castro as a "monster" and said they hope he "rots in jail" if convicted of kidnapping and raping the women.
Bloody end to hostage standoff in New Jersey; suspect killed
Reuters | Monday May 13, 2013
A tense weekend standoff in a South Trenton, New Jersey, neighborhood ended early on Sunday with a hostage taker dead and three children rescued, authorities said.
Taliban free four Turkish engineers in Afghanistan: Prime Minister Recep Erdogan
Agence France-Presse | Sunday May 12, 2013
Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday announced that the Taliban have freed four of eight Turkish engineers taken hostage last month in Afghanistan.
12 held hostage in Brazil prison mutiny: reports
Agence France-Presse | Sunday April 21, 2013
Three inmates seized 12 people hostage on Saturday during a prison mutiny in central Brazil, media reports said.
Delhi incensed, protests over five-year-old girl's rape and police response
Reported by Alok Pandey; Edited by Mala Das (with inputs from Agencies) | Saturday April 20, 2013
A five-year-old who was kept hostage, mutilated and raped by her neighbour, is fighting for her life at Delhi's famous AIIMS hospital. Doctors say she is now conscious, but still in critical condition.
Delhi Rape: 5-year-old girl's barbarous rape stirs protests, police offers weak defence
Edited by Prasad Sanyal (with inputs from Reuters) | Friday April 19, 2013
Delhi rape: A five-year-old who was kept hostage, mutilated and raped by her neighbour, is fighting for her life in Delhi. The barbarous attack on her- she was violated with pieces of a candle and a bottle- have outraged the city, triggering large ...
Cameroon says French family taken hostage freed
Associated Press | Friday April 19, 2013
Cameroon's government says a French family of seven kidnapped there two months ago while on vacation has been freed. Neither the French nor Nigerian governments, who were thanked in the statement Friday from the office of the president, could confirm...
5-year-old who was raped, kept hostage allegedly by her neighbour battles for life at hospital
Edited by Surabhi Malik | Friday April 19, 2013
The five-year-old girl from Delhi who was raped several times allegedly by her neighbour and kept as hostage at his flat for two days is battling for her life at the intensive care unit a hospital in the city.
Five-year-old kept hostage, alleged rapist escapes
Edited by Mala Das (with inputs from IANS) | Friday April 19, 2013
A five-year-old girl was raped several times by her neighbour who abducted her and kept her hostage inside his flat in east Delhi for two days, according to police.
French gangster blows-up five prison doors and escapes in spectacular jailbreak
Agence France-Presse | Sunday April 14, 2013
One of France's most dangerous gangsters, known for brazen attacks on cash-in-transit vehicles, on Saturday blasted his way out of jail after briefly taking several wardens hostage, officials said.
Four Italian journalists taken hostage in Syria freed
Agence France-Presse | Saturday April 13, 2013
Four Italian journalists who were being held hostage in Syria have been freed, Prime Minister Mario Monti said in a statement on Saturday.
