Colombia’s left-wing Farc guerrillas have said they will free France 24 journalist Roméo Langlois to a representative of newly elected French President François Hollande, a Red ...
Osama bin Laden wanted Al-Qaeda in north Africa to keep French hostages alive until after the presidential election currently taking place, a letter released by US secret services shows.
Somali pirates freed a British hostage Wednesday, nearly seven months after she was taken captive in a raid at a Kenyan beach resort in which her husband was killed.
Armed insurgents on Monday stormed a police headquarters in western Iraq and took hostage senior officials and police officers, security officials said.
The families of eight Hong Kong tourists who were killed in a Philippine bus hijacking last year accused Hong Kong authorities Thursday of not doing enough to help them win compensation.
Last week's release of journalists Hervé Ghesquière and Stéphane Taponier after 18 months as captives of the Taliban received massive coverage in the French media, but their ...