... proof that the Jordanian pilot, Lt. Muath al-Kaseasbeh, is still alive. The Thursday deadline passed without any word of the fate of the two hostages. A second Japanese hostage, Haruna Yukawa, purportedly was executed by the militant group. Goto’s wife Rinko said in a statement that she has ...
... it been like? HAJIME OZAKI: Yes, of course, most of the Japanese population are very much concerned and worried about the fate of the two hostages, and there was a press conference by one of the -- the mother of one of the hostages the other day, and it -- her appeal ...
RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany -- President Barack Obama is condemning what he calls "the brutal murder" of a Japanese hostage by the Islamic State group. Obama's statement doesn't say how the United States knows that Haruna Yukawa is dead, and the Japanese government is trying to verify an online ...
A video released Saturday purportedly announced the execution of one of the two Japanese hostages being held by the militant group Islamic State in Syria. Japanese officials condemned the apparent execution of Haruna Yukawa, a 42-year-old unemployed widower who went to Syria in July and was captured the ...
... his cabinet. Parliament has called an emergency session for Sunday on whether to accept the resignations. The deadline has come and gone for two Japanese hostages held by Islamic State forces in Syria. On Tuesday, the militants had threatened to kill Kenji Goto and Haruna Yukawa unless Japan paid $200 ...
... This makeshift memorial, one city block from the Lindt cafe, marks the loss of two innocent lives after a self-styled sheik took 17 people hostage. The prime minister, Tony Abbott, also laid flowers after admitting there were difficult questions to face. Why, for example, was the hostage taker, Man ...
... JUDY WOODRUFF: We return now to the deadly hostage standoff in Australia. Stuart Cohen is a freelance journalist based in Sydney. He's been reporting the story for NPR. I spoke to him a short time ago via Skype. Stuart Cohen, thank you for talking with us. First of ...
Police are responding after at least one gunman reportedly took hostages at a cafe in Sydney on Monday morning. An unknown number of hostages are being held in an "armed incident," which is ongoing at the Lindt Chocolate Café in the city's central business district, Reuters reported. A black ...
... hostages may be killed during the initial abduction, attempting to resist. A hostage may be killed while attempting to escape his or her captors. A hostage may be murdered in cold blood by their captors, or a hostage may be killed during the course of the rescue. Of those hostages ...
... tried and failed to free American journalist James Foley, held by the Islamic State group in Syria. Foley and four other Western hostages were later beheaded by Islamic State members. The al Qaeda branch had no immediate response to the failed U.S. raid or the death of the hostages.
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