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07/06/2012 - France

Armed man takes hostage in Toulouse weather centre

A security worker is being held hostage in the Toulouse branch of France’s weather forecasting service, Météo France, by an unemployed man armed with a hunting rifle.

31/05/2012 - France - Argentina

Ashton, Hollande welcome France 24 Colombia reporter's release

European foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said Thursday that she hoped the release of France 24 journalist Roméo Langlois marked the “definitive end” of hostage-taking by Colombia’s left-wing Farc guerrillas. Earlier French President François Hollande expressed “great joy”

14/05/2012 - France - Colombia

Colombia's Farc to free France 24 journalist to Hollande envoy

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 ...

04/05/2012 - France - Al-Qaeda

Bin Laden wanted French hostages spared until after presidential poll

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.

08/04/2012 - Mali - Algeria

Kidnapped Algerian diplomats freed in north Mali, report

The seven Algerian diplomats kidnapped in northern Mali have been freed, according to the Algiers-based El Watan newspaper.

22/03/2012 - Report: Somalia

British woman hostage released by Somali pirates

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.

10/12/2011 - France - Mali

Al-Qaeda in Maghreb claims kidnap of two French men, three other Europeans

Al-Qaeda's north African wing has claimed responsibility for the kidnapping of two French citizens and three other Europeans in Mali last month.

02/12/2011 - France

Carlos the Jackal not a revolutionary but a killer, former comrade tells Paris court

A former comrade of Carlos the Jackal described him as a cold-blooded killer and cast doubt on his sanity at his trial in Paris on Friday.

03/10/2011 - Iraq

Iraqi gunmen take police, mayor hostage

Armed insurgents on Monday stormed a police headquarters in western Iraq and took hostage senior officials and police officers, security officials said.

11/08/2011 - HONG KONG

Hong Kong officials criticised over Manila hostage deaths

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.

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