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By , on June 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> British Prime Minister David Cameron says leaders gathering on Monday for the G8 summit in Northern Ireland should reach speedy agreement on trade and tax reforms, and draw inspiration from the host country’s ability to resolve its own stubborn conflict. Speaking hours ahead of the summit’s official opening at a lakeside golf resort, Cameron said he expects formal agreement to launch negotiations on a European-American free trade agreement. He said a pact to slash tariffs on exports would boost employment and growth on both sides of the Atlantic. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By MICHAEL SCHWIRTZ and J. DAVID GOODMAN, on May 23rd, 2013 The ordeal of Pedro Portugal, 52, a businessman, ended when officers posing as building inspectors raided a warehouse where he was kept for 32 days, the authorities said.
Continue reading Suspects Are Arrested in Kidnapping and Torture of Queens Man
By By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, on May 22nd, 2013 President Mohamed Morsi said seven Egyptian security officers who were abducted nearly a week ago had been freed, ending increasing anxiety over the government’s grip on security in the region.
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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 , 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 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 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 , on April 28th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Nine officials, six police officers and six ethnic Uygurs died in the incident on Tuesday afternoon in a town in Bachu county, Kashgar prefecture, about 1,200 kilometres southwest of the provincial capital, Urumqi, said Hou Hanmin, a Xinjiang government spokeswoman. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 28th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> At least two people died and 10 were hurt on Sunday when part of an apartment block in the French city of Reims collapsed after a suspected gas blast. Firefighters were hunting for victims trapped under debris of the council estate building, where the extremity of a long strip of flats collapsed, taking around 10 apartments down. Local authorities said the “probable” cause of the accident at the four-storey building in the heart of the Champagne region was a gas explosion. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 23rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Afghan village elders were locked in talks with the Taliban on Tuesday in a bid to free 10 foreign and one Afghan hostage being held captive by the militia for a third day, officials said. The Taliban, who are fighting an 11-year insurgency against US-led Nato troops and the Afghan government, said earlier the captives were in good health and had been moved to a “safe area”. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By KIM SEVERSON, on April 11th, 2013 A man called firefighters to his house in a suburb of Atlanta and then held them hostage for almost four hours until he was shot when the police stormed the house Wednesday evening.
Continue reading Man Takes Firefighters Hostage and Dies in Raid, Police Say
By By JENNIFER PRESTON, on April 11th, 2013 After luring the fire department to his home in suburban Atlanta with a false medical call, a gunman held four firefighters captive.
Continue reading The Lede: Video: Suspect Dead After Taking Firefighters Hostage in Georgia
By , on April 7th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The attacks centred around the volatile city of Jos, where thousands have been killed since Nigeria became a democracy in 1999. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 6th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has warned that the fall of his regime would destabilise the region “for many years”, as US President Barack Obama announced talks with Middle East allies over the crisis. “The whole world knows that if Syria is partitioned, or if terrorist forces take control of the country, there will be direct contagion of the surrounding countries,” Assad said in an interview with two Turkish media outlets, video of which was posted on his Facebook page Friday. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By Andrew Becker, on April 4th, 2013 One admitted to kidnapping and ransoming hostages in the Ivory Coast. Others said they had molested children or committed rape. And one, as he prepared for survival in a post-apocalyptic world, contemplated assassinating President Barack Obama.
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By By AZAM AHMED, on April 3rd, 2013 Insurgents staged a complex assault in a western Afghan capital and then shot hostages dead, in one of the deadliest attacks of the past decade.
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Britain’s Prime Minister Cameron rallies world leaders to G8 summit
<!– google_ad_section_start –> British Prime Minister David Cameron says leaders gathering on Monday for the G8 summit in Northern Ireland should reach speedy agreement on trade and tax reforms, and draw inspiration from the host country’s ability to resolve its own stubborn conflict. Speaking hours ahead of the summit’s official opening at a lakeside golf resort, Cameron said he expects formal agreement to launch negotiations on a European-American free trade agreement. He said a pact to slash tariffs on exports would boost employment and growth on both sides of the Atlantic. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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