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Hundreds of indigenous protesters were holding 38 police hostage early on Saturday in Peru’s Amazon jungle after fights between tribes and police killed up to 33 people in the worst violence of President Alan Garcia’s government.
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Max Blumental reports on The Daily Beast that Sarah Palin may have quit her job today because she was trying to avert a major, yet-to-be-disclosed corruption scandal....
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The crown of the famed New York Statue of Liberty will reopen tomorrow for the first time since September 11th, 2001, and what better day than the celebration of...
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American nuns could be said to have their habits in a twist in the face of two investigations by the Vatican into whether they have come to espouse lifestyles and views...
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The Jackson family has decided to hold a memorial for their late son at Los Angeles’ Staple Center. Jackson died last week from what was probably a strong...
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Alaska Governor and former Republican 2008 vice-president nominee Sarah Palin has decided to resign from her governorship.
The resignation will come at the end of the...
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A Philadelphia man’s accused of using Tarot cards and mysticism to lure three teenage girls into having sex with him.
“He was reading my cards and told me...
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Brad Pitt surely deserves to be there in the green celebs’ list. Well, you may or may not agree to it. Still his foundation, Make It Right, makes him proud in...
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While the onslaught of miserable June weather played havoc with people’s plans and psyches, it has also provided a quiet benefit to many city neighborhoods. Fatal and...
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Amidst the fireworks, the beer and the cookouts associated with the celebration of the 4th of July Independence holiday, it is common to forget why the founders of the...
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Despite about two trillion dollars pumped into banks and the general economy from the government, the United States’ economy continues to shed jobs.
The U.S....
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Gavin Newsom, the mayor of San Francisco, has an emergency button under his desk that was installed 30 years ago after former City Supervisor Dan White entered City...
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The King of Pop still had it.
In defiance of all the critics who called him Wacko Jacko and a has-been, Michael Jackson still put on a show that eluded most artists....
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California, one of the world’s largest economies, has reached the brink. It is a sad day for America for California always promised the “Golden Road”...
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President Obama promised a break from the old Washington ways of permanent campaigning and a president unaccountable to the people. Put aside the lack of...
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With respect to Gov. Mark Sanford, it’s probably always a mistake for a Puritan to visit Latin America. A handsome cardiologist’s son, he married money,...
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It has long been known that Michael Jackson had an inconsiderate stage-dad. Joe Jackson reportedly pushed his son excessively as a young star.
Jackson has long stated...
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For the first time since 1968, a party will command a filibuster proof majority in the Senate.
After several months of recounts and court battles, Democratic...
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Michael Jackson was so distraught over persistent insomnia in recent months that he pleaded for a powerful sedative despite warnings it could be harmful, says a...
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Dreaming of a house that is remarkably awesome? Designed by Touzet studio, the amazing North Bay Road Residence located in Miami Beach, Florida is one such example. The...
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As Iran stumbles deeper into political crisis, with scores of protestors murdered and likely more deaths coming after Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami declared them...
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AP, Raleigh
A man who took 19 hostages at a small-town North Carolina newspaper more than two decades ago in a supposed bid to call attention to government corruption died Friday...
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AP, Cairo
Al-Qaida in North Africa says it will kill a British hostage if the British government does not release an imprisoned radical preacher.
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AP, Cairo
Al-Qaida in North Africa says it will kill a British hostage if the British government does not release an imprisoned radical preacher.
made popular Apr 26 2009
AP, Bogota
Colombia’s largest rebel group promised on Thursday to release an army corporal kidnapped 11 years ago in a hostage case made famous by his father, who walked...
made popular Apr 16 2009
Somalian pirates: Sea terrorist.
“US military chiefs are bolstering their forces around the Horn of Africa to help tackle Somali pirates holding a US captain...
made popular Apr 11 2009
AP, Bogota
Colombian rebels have freed their last known foreign hostage, an ailing 69-year-old Swede kidnapped nearly two years ago.
made popular Mar 17 2009
AP, Washington
A federal court has dismissed a lawsuit against Libya brought by the estate of American librarian Peter Kilburn, who was kidnapped, held hostage and killed in...
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AP, Bogota
Three Americans held captive by Colombia’s leftist rebels for 5 1/2 years published a memoir Thursday full of wrenching survival stories and unkind words about...
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AP, Warsaw
Poland promised Monday to issue international arrest warrants for Taliban militants after the apparent beheading of a Polish engineer in Pakistan, and officials charged...
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AP, Jerusalem
The fate of an Israeli army sergeant captured by Hamas and being held in Gaza has become murkier with the massive Israeli assault on the Palestinian territory.
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AP, El Monte
A camouflaged gunman was killed and a 6-year-old hostage was shot in the leg during a two-hour standoff with police Tuesday that began when the man snatched the child...
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AP, El Monte
A boy being held hostage by an armed man has been transported by ambulance after gun shots rang out in the Los Angeles-area restaurant where he was being held.
made popular Dec 24 2008
AP, El Monte
Gun shots rang out and a flash-bang grenade went off inside a restaurant where an armed man has been holding a boy hostage in a Los Angeles suburb.
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AP, El Monte
An armed man has grabbed a child off the sidewalk and is holding him hostage inside a restaurant in a Los Angeles suburb.
made popular Dec 24 2008
AP, Paris
President Nicolas Sarkozy says a French aid worker seen in an Afghanistan hostage video was released by his captors “minutes ago.”
made popular Dec 3 2008
AP, London
A French aid worker kidnapped in Afghanistan earlier this month has appeared in a video with two rifles pressed to either side of his head and chains around his legs
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AP, Bismarck
The remains of a North Dakota civilian taken hostage and killed in Iraq nearly three years ago have been recovered along with remains believed to be those of his...
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AP, Bogota
A Colombian lawmaker says he escaped eight years of leftist rebel captivity along with one of his jailers.
made popular Oct 26 2008
AP, Bogota
Soldiers on Sunday freed a Colombian lawmaker who’d been held by leftist guerrillas for eight years in the first such hostage rescue since the July liberation of...
made popular Oct 26 2008
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