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Hostage

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Name: Hostage

First Reported 38 mins ago - Updated 38 mins ago - 1 Documents

Red Cross/Crescent

Sudan: Abducted Red Cross worker freed

Khartoum, 18 March(AKI) - An aid worker with joint British and French nationality was released in Sudan's Darfur region on Thursday after almost five months in captivity. Gauthier Lefevre, 35, who works for the International Committee of the Red Cross, ... [Published 38 mins ago by ADN Kronos International]

Entities: Darfur, Sudan, Red Cross/Crescent

First Reported 6 hours ago - Updated 6 hours ago - 1 Documents

Somalia: Relatives' Agony Over Seamen Held By Pirates

Nairobi When Eugene Onalo bid his wife Millicent Nelima goodbye last November, she was in high spirits and had a lot of expectations. Mr Onalo was leaving for a fishing expedition aboard a Kenyan registered fishing vessel, Fv Saboka, in the Indian Oc ... [Published 6 hours ago by AllAfrica.com]

Entities: Andrew Mwangura, Theory of Relativity, Tanzania, Somalia

First Reported 6 hours ago - Updated 6 hours ago - 1 Documents

University of Houston

Rules target speculators as gas prices rise

Gasoline prices nationwide topped $2.80 a gallon on average last week, and some of the reasons were obvious.A busy summer driving season is just around the corner. Stimulus spending has weakened the dollar, which pushes oil higher. And the global economy ... [Published 6 hours ago by Chicago Tribune]

Entities: Gasoline, nonprescription, University of Houston, Commodity Futures Trading Commission

First Reported 7 hours ago - Updated 2 hours ago - 1 Documents

Serious Organised Crime Agency

New danger in Pakistan

Apart from the severe haircut given to Sahil Saeed by his kidnappers, there are few remaining outward signs of the little boys ordeal in Pakistan. The camera crews have gone from outside his familys terraced house in Shaw, Oldham. Inside, Sahil, five, ... [Published 7 hours ago by Times Online]

Entities: Kidnapping, Serious Organised Crime Agency, Pakistan

First Reported 15 hours ago - Updated 34 mins ago - 1 Documents

The Labour Party (United Kingdom)

Labour under pressure over BA strike

Who is winning the battle at British Airways? The union, or the company? Both are claiming victory over the weekend’s strike. The union, Unite, says support has been solid, while BA claims 11,000 turned up for work as normal and it reinstated flights ... [Published 15 hours ago by EuroNews]

Entities: The Labour Party (United Kingdom), British Airways plc, Hostage, JavaScript, Gordon Brown

First Reported 18 hours ago - Updated 18 hours ago - 1 Documents

Hostages freed in Cameroon

The Invisible Cure: Africa, the West and the Fight Against AIDS Was R286.95 Now R258.26Yaounde - Cameroonian forces earlier this week freed seven Chinese hostages held by an armed gang off the southwest Bakassi region, the president's office said."The ... [Published 18 hours ago by News24.com]

Entities: Cameroon, Hostage, Laurent Esso, Xue Jinwei

First Reported 20 hours ago - Updated 20 hours ago - 1 Documents

Taliban

Taliban hand over 22 hostages to Lashkar in Kurram

PARACHINAR: The local Taliban, as a result of a pact with Masozai national Lashkar, handed over 22 hostages to the Lashkar in Kurram Agency.The accord between the local Taliban and Masozai national Lashkar came about after an armed clash that continued ... [Published 20 hours ago by Jang Group]

Entities: Hostage, Taliban

First Reported Mar 21 2010 - Updated 21 hours ago - 2 Documents

Maoists release nine hostages, demand to end 'Operation Green Hunt'

Jharkhand, March 21 (ANI): Maoists released nine hostages unharmed in Latehar district of Jharkhand on Saturday. These people were abducted from Menaka police station area in the morning and they were released by evening.The released people were told ... [Published 21 hours ago by Yahoo! India]

Entities: Maoist, Hostage, Social Welfare

First Reported 23 hours ago - Updated 23 hours ago - 1 Documents

Russian kills wife, daughters

MOSCOW - A DISTRAUGHT debtor shot and killed his wife and two daughters in a Moscow apartment to spare them the burden of his financial misery, the Interfax news agency reported, quoting a police source.The man, identified as Yuri Merkind, then boarded ... [Published 23 hours ago by Straits Times]

Entities: Moscow, Anatoly Bagmet, Debtor, Hostage

First Reported Mar 21 2010 - Updated 11 hours ago - 7 Documents

Pakistan kidnappers 'threatened to chop up UK boy'

The father of a five-year-old British boy held hostage for 12 days in Pakistan said Sunday the kidnappers had threatened to chop off parts of the boy's body if he did not pay a ransom. Raja Naqqash Saeed told the Mail on Sunday newspaper how the gang ... [Published Mar 21 2010 by France24 - Asia Pacific]

Entities: Pakistan, United Kingdom, Hostage

First Reported Mar 20 2010 - Updated Mar 21 2010 - 6 Documents

Darfur hostage describes ordeal

The longest-held foreign hostage in the Sudanese region of Darfur has said he was not mistreated, but faced a "daily struggle" to stay positive.Gauthier Lefevre, a 35-year-old French-British aid worker, spoke about his 147-day ordeal in the Sudanese capital ... [Published Mar 21 2010 by BBC]

Entities: Darfur, Hostage, Sudanese, Red Cross/Crescent

First Reported Mar 21 2010 - Updated Mar 21 2010 - 1 Documents

Letter torment of woman stalked from jail

A STALKER used a legal loophole to bombard his victim with more than 100 'pornographic, abusive and threatening' letters sent from his prison cell.The woman received the hate-mail from the man – who had terrorised her for more than 20 years – despite ... [Published Mar 21 2010 by Scotland on Sunday Online]

Entities: Stalking, Scottish Prison Service, Scottish Parliament, Stalker, Hostage

Quotes

One major Darfur rebel group last month signed a peace deal with the government but the region remains unstable. "We are relieved and happy that Gauthier will soon be back with his family and friends, who have been living a painful nightmare for almost five months and cannot wait to see him return home" said Jordi Raich, who heads the ICRC delegation in Sudan. Lefevre is 'tired but appears to be in good health,' the statement said

Sudan: Abducted Red Cross worker freed [ADN Kronos International - 38 mins ago]

The White House signaled it would be a schizoid day with a statement that Obama was closely eyeballing the House process and also "like the rest of America, examining the rubble of his [NCAA basketball] bracket."

Obama's long day full of wrangling, deal making [New York Daily News - 2 hours ago]

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Taliban hand over 22 hostages to Lashkar in Kurram [Jang Group - 20 hours ago]
Maoists release nine hostages, demand to end 'O... [Yahoo! India - 21 hours ago]

Blogs

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Sandip Roy: Health Care Reform's Lessons for Im... [The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed - 3 hours ago] I hear 200,000 people came to the National Mall in Washington D.C. on Sunday. But the three top stories on Google News were Health care vote results: ...
Why Libertarians Should Be Pacifists, Not Isola... [EconLog - 5 hours ago] Hard-core libertarians often describe themselves as "isolationists." As Murray Rothbard argued:Pending the dissolution of States, libertarians desire to limit, ...
Rubber Room: The Movie [Gothamist - 14 hours ago] You’ve heard it described, now two filmmakers are ready to give us a rare glimpse into the bizarre saga of NYC’s infamous rubber room. The long-term holding area ...
US strike kills 4 in North Waziristan [The Long War Journal - 16 hours ago] The US launched another airstrikes in Pakistan's Taliban controlled-tribal agency of North Waziristan, the fourth in the region in six days. Unmanned US Predators ...
Kurram lashkar cuts deal with the Taliban [The Long War Journal - 19 hours ago] A tribal militia and the Taliban in the remote Pakistani tribal agency of Kurram have ended the fighting after the two groups signed a peace accord. The Masozai ...

Audio/Video

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Breaking News: Man holds cops hostage, threaten... [Russia Today - YouTube - Mar 18 2010]
Mali : Spanish, Italian hostages released [France 24 English - YouTube - Mar 10 2010]
French hostage returns home [Reuters - YouTube - Feb 25 2010]
French hostage returns home [Reuters Video: Top News - Feb 25 2010]
Afghan war scenes [Reuters - YouTube - Feb 15 2010]