... 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 ...
... reciprocity″ for American products. Carney said Tuesday Canada’s strategy was about becoming more independent. “It’s about ensuring that no country can hold us hostage. And that we can live how we want to live.” The rupture has upended one of the world’s closest relationships. On Aug. 22 ...
... held. On Sunday, Pope Leo XIV condemned the massacre. “I express my prayerful closeness to the victims and their families and ask that all the hostages be released without delay,” he said. "I make a heartfelt appeal to all those responsible to make a concrete commitment to ensuring the safety ...
... leave this room.” A year ago, the coalition’s annual summit was planned as a celebration of the Trump administration’s work to return Israeli hostages held in Gaza since the war began. Instead, it became a days-long condemnation of antisemitism within the conservative ranks sparked by the refusal ...
Niger’s Defense Ministry said its forces were gradually regaining control of the situation after a group of soldiers took their “comrades” hostage at the air base and fired at “sensitive” sites, without specifying cause of the unrest. The chaos persisted for hours late into Saturday as the presidential guard ...
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