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By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> North Korea has released 16 Chinese fishermen and their boat, Chinese state-run media said on Tuesday, after reports that armed assailants had taken the sailors hostage and demanded a ransom. “All the fishermen with the boat are safe on their way back,” China’s Xinhua news agency said, citing a Chinese embassy official in Pyongyang it said had heard the news from the shipowner. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By MICHAEL SCHWIRTZ, on May 20th, 2013 An officer’s decision to enter a home in Uniondale, N.Y., and open fire, killing a gunman and a student being held hostage, may have eliminated the opportunity to negotiate with the gunman, some experts said.
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By , on May 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A 21-year-old university student killed in a home invasion east of New York was mistakenly shot in the head by an officer who fired eight times at an armed suspect who was holding a gun to the student’s head and then pointed it at him. Seven of the bullets hit the man, who was also killed. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By MICHAEL SCHWIRTZ, on May 19th, 2013 A 21-year-old student who was killed in a home invasion on Friday was mistakenly shot in the head by an officer firing at an armed suspect holding her hostage, the police said.
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By , on May 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Former Philippine president Joseph Estrada was proclaimed the new mayor of Manila yesterday, his first elected post since he was ousted in an anti-corruption revolt 12 years ago. Estrada, 76, capitalised on his movie-star popularity, particularly among the poor, and promised to reverse urban decay of the historic city along Manila Bay. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, as the group calls itself, first announced on Monday that four of the eight Turkish citizens captured late last month after their helicopter made an emergency landing in Logar province had been released, with the other four to follow soon. The Taliban characterised the move as a “goodwill gesture”. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Former President Joseph Estrada was declared the winner of Manila’s mayoral election on Tuesday, his first ballot victory since his ouster in a 2001 anti-corruption revolt and a possible prelude to a return to higher office. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Former Philippine President Joseph Estrada was leading in the vote-count for mayor of Manila on Tuesday in what could be his first elected post since he was ousted in a 2001 revolt on corruption charges. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 13th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The brothers of the US man charged with kidnapping and raping three women, locking them in his home for a decade, said they hope he “rots” in jail, in an interview aired on Monday. He’s a “monster. Hateful. I hope he rots in that jail,” Onil Castro, 50, told CNN. “I don’t even want them to take his life like that,” he said, referring to a possible death penalty charge in the case. “I want him to suffer in that jail.” “I feel the same way,” added brother Pedro Castro, 54. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 13th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A bomb killed 13 civilians including women and children in southern Afghanistan on Monday as they travelled to attend the funeral of earlier bomb victims, police said. It was the latest violence since the Taliban launched their annual “spring offensive” on April 27, opening a crucial period for the country as its security forces take the lead in offensives against the insurgents. “The blast hit a pick-up truck in the Arghistan district of Kandahar province, killing four women, four men and five children,” Abdul Raziq, Kandahar provincial police chief, said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 13th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Taliban insurgent leaders pledged on Monday to release the final four Turkish engineers held hostage since their helicopter crashed in eastern Afghanistan last month. Four other Turkish engineers aboard the helicopter were freed on Sunday, three weeks after the crash in Logar province, a Taliban stronghold south of the capital Kabul. The Taliban said in an emailed statement that the four had been released as a “goodwill, humanitarian gesture and as a sign of respect to the Muslim people of Turkey”. “The other four will be released in the near future,” it added. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 13th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, the Venezuelan better known to the world as Carlos the Jackal, returns to court on Monday to appeal his conviction for a series of deadly bombings in France 30 years ago. The 63-year-old, who has been imprisoned in France since being captured in Sudan in 1994, was found guilty in 2011 of masterminding the 1982 and 1983 attacks on two French passenger trains, a train station in Marseille and a Libyan magazine office in Paris. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 13th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Police surveillance footage said to show a young migrant worker moments before she fell to her death has sparked accusations of a cover-up after she appeared to be wearing different clothing to that photographed by witnesses at the scene. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 12th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> When the dust settles from today’s violent and raucous midterm elections, President Benigno Aquino is expected to emerge politically stronger, thanks to unlikely alliances he’s forged. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, on May 12th, 2013 The authorities went to a home in South Trenton near the Delaware River on Friday and discovered at least one dead and others being held by an armed man.
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By , on May 11th, 2013 The police said that a man had killed at least one person inside a home and was holding children hostage.
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By , on May 10th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A Finnish couple and an Austrian student abducted in Yemen by al-Qaeda militants more than four months ago have been freed and have arrived safety in Vienna, authorities said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By Christine Pelisek, on May 10th, 2013 Despite the agony they endured, the three women held hostage in Cleveland likely forged bonds.
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By Christine Pelisek, on May 8th, 2013 If three women were held hostage for 10 years on your block, would you notice? By Christine Pelisek.
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By , on May 2nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> North Korea has sentenced a US citizen to 15 years of prison labour for “hostile acts” against the communist regime, the North’s official Korean Central News Agency said on Thursday. Pae Jun-ho, known in the United States as Kenneth Bae, was arrested in November as he entered the northeastern port city of Rason. “The Supreme Court sentenced him to 15 years of compulsory labour for this crime,” KCNA said. Pyongyang has not specified the basis of the crimes allegedly committed by Bae, who is believed to be a Korean-American tour operator. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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North Korea releases 16 detained Chinese fishermen after Beijing intervenes
<!– google_ad_section_start –> North Korea has released 16 Chinese fishermen and their boat, Chinese state-run media said on Tuesday, after reports that armed assailants had taken the sailors hostage and demanded a ransom. “All the fishermen with the boat are safe on their way back,” China’s Xinhua news agency said, citing a Chinese embassy official in Pyongyang it said had heard the news from the shipowner. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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