... 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 ...
... running high in Madison, Wisconsin, following the fatal police shooting of a man with a knife and the man who killed Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman was sentenced to life in prison. ... Geoff Bennett: In the day's other headlines: The Trump administration is imposing new tariffs on dozens of ...
... welfare check, according to court documents. Mark Hortman answered the door. Boelter gave him a fake name and badge number before requesting he summon Melissa Hortman to the door as well. He shot Mark Hortman multiple times before pushing into the house and shooting the lawmaker as she fled upstairs ...
... ceasefire. The war began after the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, killed around 1,200 people and saw 251 taken hostage. Israel's retaliatory offensive in Gaza has killed more than 73,264 Palestinians, including those killed since the ceasefire, Gaza's Health Ministry said ...
... So it's regrettable, but it's understandable, that once again both sides have fallen back to what they do best, Iran holding international commerce hostage, the U.S. doing strikes that are tactically efficient, but perhaps strategically insufficient. Nick Schifrin: Miad Maleki, the U.S. goal here, stated goal ...
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