Tag: Hostage situations
Video shows Oklahoma jailer being brutalized by inmates
OKLAHOMA CITY — The Oklahoma City Police Department released a video Friday showing inmates drag, beat and stab a jailer before police shot and...
Remains in Mali identified as kidnapped Swiss missionary
BAMAKO, Mali — The body of a Swiss woman who was held hostage for more than five years by an extremist Islamic group in...
Mexican soldiers seized after Guatemalan killed near border
MEXICO CITY — Some 300 residents of a remote stretch of the Mexico-Guatemala border held 15 Mexican soldiers captive for hours after one of...
Family of man held in Lebanon builds support for hostages
Four sisters who started a foundation in the name of their father, an American who was jailed and tortured in his native Lebanon for...
After 100 years, California condor could return to northwest
SAN FRANCISCO — The endangered California condor could return to the Pacific Northwest for the first time in 100 years.
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Steelers cut CB Steven Nelson in cap-related move
PITTSBURGH — The Pittsburgh Steelers released veteran cornerback Steven Nelson on Tuesday, opting to cut him rather than trade him, an announcement that came...
Charles Lewis, former DC chief at AP and Hearst, has died
WASHINGTON — Charles Lewis, a former Washington bureau chief for The Associated Press and The Hearst Newspapers who tirelessly advocated for the release of...
Pirates free 10 abducted fishermen in Nigeria, ransom paid
UGHELLI, Nigerai — Ten foreigners abducted by pirates last month were rescued in southern Nigeria, the army said.
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Government offers plan to release more endangered red wolves
Government wildlife officials released two more critically endangered red wolves into the wild in North Carolina and could place several more captive-bred wolves into...
Palestinians say Israel blocks shipment of vaccines to Gaza
RAMALLAH, West Bank — The Palestinian Authority said Monday that Israel was preventing it from sending coronavirus vaccines to the Gaza Strip that are...
