Tokyo : The Mideast is half a world away from Japan, and its troubles often seem so too. So Japan was shocked by a stark video from Islamic militants last week threatening to kill two
Tripoli, Libya: A Libyan security official says gunmen have stormed a luxury Libyan hotel popular with foreigners and have taken hostages after killing at least three guards.Essam Al-Naas, a spokesman for a Tripoli security agency,
Tokyo: Japan's prime minister said Sunday he was “speechless” after an online video purported to show one of two Japanese hostages of the extremist Islamic State group had been killed and promised to save the
Tokyo: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe angrily demanded Sunday that the extremist Islamic State group release a Japanese journalist it is holding hostage after a new online video purported to show that another hostage had been
Paris: At least seven people were killed Friday, including three gunmen, after security forces brought to an end two tense hostage dramas in separate locations in the French capital.While Cherif and Said Kouachi, the two
Paris: Two police officials say at least four people, including the attacker, have died at a kosher grocery in Paris where a gunman took several hostages.Security forces stormed the grocery minutes after their counterparts assaulted
Sydney: The Sydney hostages pleaded for help—for those among them who were pregnant, sick and elderly. Also for those who were young and deserved a shot at a decent life.After a gunman took 17 hostages
New Delhi: The Indian Consulate in Sydney was today evacuated in view of the hostage situation in a cafe near its premises and all the staff members are safe, the External Affairs Ministry today said.“As
Sydney: Five people ran out a fire exit of a Sydney cafe where a gunman took an unknown number of people hostage at the height of Monday morning rush hour. Two people inside the cafe
Sydney: Three people have run out a fire exit of a Sydney building where a hostage situation has been unfolding. It is not clear whether they were hostages or whether they were escaping from another
London: The 81-year-old father of the British journalist John Cantlie, who was captured by the Islamic State (IS) in Syria, Friday pleaded with the Sunni radical group to release his son.In a nearly five minutes
Nairobi: With no sign of Kenyan authorities going to arrive at a final figure of the number of people killed in the Al Shabaab bloodbath, soldiers have revealed of the horrific torture meted out to
Beijing, Jun 25: Chinese workers keeping an American executive confined to his Beijing medical supply factory said Tuesday that they had not been paid in two months in a compensation dispute that highlights tensions in
Beijing, Jun 25: An American executive said he has been held hostage for four days at his medical supply plant in Beijing by scores of workers demanding severance packages like those given to 30 co-workers
Islamabad, Jul 16: Burqa-clad Taliban militants today stormed a police station used by local intelligence personnel at Bannu in northwest Pakistan and took several hostage, before securitymen stormed the building to end the siege. Four
Bhubaneswar, Apr 18: Maoists holding BJD MLA Jhina Hikaka hostage on Wednesday refused to extend the deadline which expired at 5:00 pm for meeting their demands and said his fate would be decided at the
Bhubaneswar, Apr 4: Bowing to Maoists' demands, for securing the release of a BJD MLA and an Italian from the captivity of ultra-Left activists' captivity, Odisha government today said it would facilitate the release of
Bhubaneswar, Mar 26: Hours after being released by Maoists, Italian tourist Claudio Colangelo arrived here on Sunday night and met his country's Consul General Joel Melchiori.Accompanied by security personnel, 61-year-old Colangelo was brought to the
Bhubaneswar, Mar 21: The Maoists today offered to release one of the two Italians held captive by them if two of their demands, including release of some rebels, were met, as the Odisha government asked
Abuja, Mar 9: A British-Nigerian operation, using helicopters and hundreds of troops including the elite SAS, to rescue two abducted foreigners went awry today with the militant group Boko Haram killing the captives. The special
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