... and three U.S. defense contractors -- all reportedly held in camps well ensconced within Colombia's dense jungles. The rebels have sought to exchange the hostages for jailed guerrillas, a demand the Catholic Church and family members of the hostages have pressed Uribe to accept. On Monday night, Uribe said ...
The hostages, including 17 Americans, are employees of Transocean, the world's largest offshore oil drilling contractor. "Everybody is expected to be moving home from this evening depending on logistics," Joseph Akinlaja, deputy president of the Nigeria Labor Congress (NLC), told reporters. Some hostages may already have been released, according ...
Andrei Seltsovsky, chairman of the health committee of the city of Moscow, told a news conference that 115 hostages perished from "The effects of the gas exposure." Officials would not say what the gas was, but compared it to anaesthetic. Security analysts surmised that it was probably a fast-acting ...
... hostages or blow up the building if Russia did not agree to pull its troops out of the breakaway republic of Chechnya, press reports said. Hostage Maria Shkolnikova told Reuters via cell phone that explosives had been laid in passageways, on seats and were attached to hostages themselves. The Qatar ...
DIMITRI SIMES: Yes but the initiative is in the hands of hostage takers and my concern is that some of the hostages may try to escape. That may become a trigger for the real disaster. As you know, President Bush today became first foreign leader who called President Putin and ...
... Burnhams, missionaries from Kansas, were kidnapped last May from a resort where they were celebrating their 18th wedding anniversary. The guerrillas also captured 18 other hostages, many of whom were released for ransom. Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo offered sympathy to the Burnham and Yap families. "This has been a ...
... opposed to those efforts, saying the promise of statehood has emboldened Hamas and made it more difficult to reach a deal for a ceasefire and hostage release in the Gaza Strip. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government was opposed to Palestinian statehood before the war triggered by Hamas' Oct ...
... rallying young conservatives for Trump, died Sept. 10 after he was shot during an outdoor event at Utah Valley University. On June 14, Democrat Melissa Hortman, Minnesota's state House speaker, and her husband were shot to death in their in their suburban Minneapolis home in what authorities called an ...
So what's left is Gaza City and some camps south of Gaza City, that's where our hostages are being held. They refuse to release our hostages. They refuse to step down and surrender. Look, Nick, it could be over tomorrow. If they release our hostages and lay down ...
... the year, while Democrats haven’t shifted. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said the conflict will continue until Hamas is eliminated and the remaining hostages are released from captivity. Hamas has said its assault was in response to the more than decadelong blockade of Gaza, Israeli raids inside West ...
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