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ATHENS (Reuters) - An unemployed man shot and wounded his former boss and one other worker and took another two hostage at a small factory in Greece in protest at losing his job, police said on Thursday. He later released the hostages and turned himself over to police after officers surrounded the factory in northern Greece. Police said the man, a 61-year-old father of two who was laid off about
US special forces rescued two foreign hostages from Somali pirates in a Tuesday raid. American Jessica Buchanan and Danish national Poul Thisted were working for a Danish demining group when they were kidnapped in October.
Navy Seals, drawn from the unit that killed Osama bin Laden, rescued two hostages, including an American woman, who had been held for months.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two American men jailed in Iran for more than two years for spying arrived in New York on Sunday, saying they were innocent and had been held hostage simply because of their nationality.
Two US hikers accused Iran Sunday of using them as "hostages" in its power struggle with the West and described hearing the anguished cries of fellow inmates being beaten in Tehran's Evin prison.
Seven people were kidnapped in Niger on September 16, 2010 by al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb. As the four remaining French hostages mark their first anniversary in captivity, unrest in neighbouring Libya complicates negotiations for their release.
Osama bin Laden planned to use al Qaeda-held French hostages in North Africa, possibly by killing them, to discredit Nicolas Sarkozy ahead of France’s 2012 presidential election, a radio station said on Friday.
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb released a video on the Internet Tuesday showing four French nationals taken hostage in Niger. In the video, the hostages make an appeal for President Nicolas Sarkozy to withdraw French troops from Afghanistan.
Al Qaeda’s North African affiliate tied freedom for four workers it kidnapped last year in Niger to France’s withdrawal of its troops in Afghanistan.
Al Qaeda’s North African affiliate has released three hostages abducted in September from a French-run mine in Niger, the French presidency said.
Colombian rebels say they are ready to start the unilateral release of five hostages, according to a message posted on a former Colombian senator's website.
A witness tells CNN that a suspect has been taken in to custody after shots were fired at an Arizona mall and hostages were taken. Her account has been confirmed by police.
Gunshots were fired during a school board meeting in Panama City, Florida, officials said Tuesday.
Colombian rebels say they plan to release five hostages as a humanitarian gesture.
Two hostages were injured at a bank in Lima, Peru, before a police sniper killed a man who held 33 people there for seven hours, state media reported.
A 15-year-old northeast Wisconsin high school student held 24 hostages for about five hours Monday, then turned one of his guns on himself when police broke in at the sound of gun shots.
Three French hostages kidnapped in Nigeria have been released, the French government said Wednesday.

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