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... took 41 foreign hostages, including seven Americans. Early today, the Algerian military stormed the sprawling site, as the militants were attempting to leave with the hostages. Hours later, the country's communications minister told Algerian radio: "An important number of hostages were freed and an important number of terrorists were ...
HARI SREENIVASAN: Pirates in Somalia threatened today to kill an American hostage if the U.S. attempts to free him. The warning followed a Navy SEAL raid that rescued another American and a Dane who had been held since October. The latest U.S. captive was abducted on Saturday. His ...
Somali pirates killed four Americans who had been taken hostage aboard their yacht as U.S. forces followed the vessel. Gwen Ifill examines the problem of piracy off the Horn of Africa with Martin Murphy, a visiting fellow at the Corbett Centre for Maritime Policy Studies at King's College in London.
... every administration. He blames an increase in both the number of positions needing confirmation and heightened polarization in the Senate. "Now you have a widespread hostage-taking phenomenon," Ornstein said. If you want to get the attention of the administration, you just look at all those people awaiting nomination and ...
Romanian-born writer Herta Muller won the Nobel Prize in literature Thursday, becoming only the 12th woman to win the prize in its 109-year history. The Swedish Academy described Muller as writer “who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed ...
U.S. ships and aircraft, including a P-3 Orion surveillance aircraft sent by the Pentagon, are monitoring the boat. At the request of the U.S. Navy, the FBI's hostage rescue team began working with the military to help Phillips and the rest of the American crew. Secretary ...
JUDY WOODRUFF: Our lead story: Pirates off the coast of Somalia hit American targets today. The American crew of a container ship carrying food aid bound for Kenya regained control, but the captain was held hostage on a nearby lifeboat.And the Associated Press, citing U.S. officials, reported U ...
Playwright Horton Foote, who died Wednesday at age 92, wrote prolifically about the daily hardships and triumphs of ordinary Americans. A scene from his play "A Trip to Bountiful," which he adapted for the screen in 1985, depicts the character Carrie Watts on her final visit to her Texas hometown.
Horton Foote, who captured the dignity, depth of character and frequent hardship of American life for the stage and screen, died Wednesday in Hartford, Conn., at the age of 92. In a career that spanned more than 60 plays and films, Foote drew heavily upon the people and stories he ...
... were punctuated by frequent gunshots and new reports of explosions and fires at the Taj Mahal Palace and Tower hotel and the Trident-Oberoi hotel. Hostages and several bodies emerged from the buildings as the day wore on, Reuters reported."The safety of the people trapped is very important," A ...
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