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Canada hostage situation ends peacefully

World
2009-10-22

A man who barricaded himself with eight hostages inside the Edmonton Workers' Compensation building has surrendered, 10 hours after the drama began. Edmonton police spokesman Dean Parthenis said the man surrendered...

3 hostages killed, 22 freed in Pakistan army HQ

World
2009-10-11

THREE hostages were killed and 22 others have been freed from the Pakistan army headquarters as the security forces' mop-up operation enter final phase, Pakistani army spokesman Major General Athar Abbas said this...

Arrest over knifepoint hostage drama

Metro | Crime and public security
2009-9-18

PROSECUTORS in Luwan District yesterday ratified the arrest of a man who allegedly robbed a passer-by and held another woman at knifepoint as a hostage in a stand-off with police. The man, surnamed Wang, was...

French hostage escapes in Somalia, officials say

World
2009-8-26

ONE of a pair of French security agents kidnapped by insurgents in Somalia last month has escaped, Somali officials said today. A military officer said the man is believed to have killed three of his captors. The...

City police rescue woman held at knifepoint

Metro | Crime and public security
2009-7-30

POLICE safely rescued a woman held hostage at knifepoint by a man in an ordeal that lasted close to two hours early this morning in downtown Shanghai. The man armed with a knife was fleeing police. He took the...

Hostage engineers take employers to court

National
2009-6-22

TWO engineers who were freed after being held captive by Pakistani Taliban militants a year ago say their employers have not paid any compensation and have terminated their employment contracts. Zhang Guo, 29,...

Wuhan hero cop regains consciousness

National
2009-6-4

A POLICEMAN who was seriously injured rescuing a woman hostage from an armed man yesterday has regained consciousness after surgery, cnbuhei.com reported. Tan Jixiong was shot in the head by the gunman during the...

Somali pirates seize tugboat; US captain still held hostage

World
2009-4-12

PIRATES seized a US-owned, Italian-flagged tugboat with 16 crew yesterday in the latest hijacking in the busy Gulf of Aden waterway, a regional maritime group said. Andrew Mwangura, of the Mombasa-based East African...

Kidnapped American UN worker freed in Pakistan

World
2009-4-5

AN American UN worker abducted more than two months ago turned up unharmed yesterday, lying alongside a road in western Pakistan with his hands and feet bound and pleading "Help me, help me," the man who found him...

New deadline for US hostage in Pakistan

World
2009-3-2

A suspected separatist group that has been holding an American UN worker in Pakistan for a month said it would kill him in four days if the government does not release more than 1,000 prisoners. The threat on the...