Maoists holding BJD legislator Jhina Hikaka for 10 days in Odisha on Tuesday set the government a Thursday deadline to meet their demands.

Appealing for his immediate release, Chief Minister Naveen

Colombia's leftist FARC rebels on Monday freed a group of 10 police officers and soldiers they had held hostage for more than 12 years, a Red Cross spokeswoman said.

The Revolutionary Armed Forces of

Malaysian police stormed a kindergarten and shot a man carrying a machete who held 30 children and four teachers hostage for six hours on Thursday in a tense standoff. The hostages were unharmed.

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New Delhi: Government today said it was making all efforts to seek the release of six Indian hostages on board an Egyptian cargo ship which was hijacked by Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden.
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Washington: Twenty-four hostages held by a gun-toting student at a high school in Wisconsin have been released on Monday night, broadcaster CNN reported quoting police.

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A branch of Al Qaeda has called on the French government to withdraw its forces from Afghanistan in return for the safety of five French hostages kidnapped in Niger, in a message broadcast by al-Jazee

Thirty-seven people taken hostage by militants in a Baghdad church were killed and 56 wounded in a drama that was ended when US and Iraqi forces stormed the building, a government official said today

Baghdad, AP: Iraqi security forces stormed a Baghdad church where militants had taken an entire congregation hostage for four hours, leaving at least 52 people dead, including a priest, Iraqi official

Patna, Sept. 5: Despite the Maoists’ assurance that they would release the three Bihar policemen held hostage for the past eight days, there was no trace of the three on Sunday. The state was clueless

With the Maoists continuing to elude the police dragnet, combing operations to trace the three policemen abducted by the Naxals were on Saturday expanded to fresh areas in Bihar's Banka, Kaimur, Jamui