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  Japan attempting to verify new IS audio's authenticity

  World | January 29, 2015 13:34 IST

  Tokyo: Japan's foreign ministry was Thursday desperately trying to verify the authenticity of the another audio message purportedly from the Japanese hostage Kenji Goto who has been held by the Islamic State (IS) group, Xinhua

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  What Japanese think about the hostage crisis

  World | January 27, 2015 16:37 IST

  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

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  Gunmen at Libyan luxury hotel take hostages; 3 guards dead

  World | January 27, 2015 16:59 IST

  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,

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  Shinzo Abe 'speechless' after video claims IS hostage dead

  World | January 25, 2015 7:40 IST

  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

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  Japan, US condemn unverified video claiming IS hostage dead

  World | January 25, 2015 7:02 IST

  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

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  Seven killed as Paris double hostage crisis ends

  World | January 10, 2015 0:03 IST

  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

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  Police officials: 4 dead in Paris grocery hostage crisis

  World | January 09, 2015 23:21 IST

  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

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  Sydney hostages pleaded for sick, elderly, young

  World | December 16, 2014 17:14 IST

  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

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  Indian Consulate in Sydney evacuated, staff safe: Government

  India | December 15, 2014 12:49 IST

  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

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  In Pics: Sydney cafe siege

  World | December 22, 2014 12:15 IST

  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

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  3 people have run out of Sydney building

  World | December 15, 2014 10:43 IST

  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

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  Father of IS hostage appeals for his release

  World | October 04, 2014 6:19 IST

  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

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  Kenya mall massacre: Terrorists castrated hostages, blinded, hanged them by hooks, bodies of children found inside food court fridges

  World | September 28, 2013 13:07 IST

  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

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  Chinese workers holding US boss say wages unpaid

  World | June 25, 2013 16:01 IST

  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

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  US factory boss held hostage by workers in Beijing

  World | June 25, 2013 12:06 IST

  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

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  Taliban storms police building in Pak; take hostage

  World | July 16, 2012 17:04 IST

  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

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  Maoists Refuse To Extend Deadline For Hikaka Release

  India | April 18, 2012 22:51 IST

  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

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  Odisha To Release 27 Persons For Release Of MLA, Italian

  India | April 04, 2012 22:10 IST

  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

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  Colangelo Meets Italian Consul General In Bhubaneswar

  India | March 26, 2012 8:23 IST

  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

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  Odisha Maoists Offer To Release One Italian Hostage

  India | March 21, 2012 14:04 IST

  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