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 Post office hostage-taker sentenced to 40 years 
                                            
            
 6 foreign hostages freed in Cameroon 
YAOUNDE, Cameroon — Six foreigners who were kidnapped off the coast of Cameroon in early September have been released, a government spokesman said Thursday. 
                                            
            
 In harrowing book, freed hostage details horror 
                                            
            
 3 French employees kidnapped from ship off Nigeria 
                                            
            
 France’s Sarkozy calls Niger kidnappings worrying 
                                            
            
 French minister in Mali amid hostage standoff 
                                            
            
 French minister heads to Mali amid hostage crisis 
                                            
            
 Al-Qaida claims kidnapping of 5 French in Niger 
                                            
            
 French soldiers hunt for abducted workers in Niger 
                                            
            
 7 people, including 5 French, kidnapped in Niger 
                                            
            
 Philippines says police might have shot hostages 
                                            
            
 Army: Ex-soldier takes 3 hospital workers hostage 
                                            
            
 Colo. woman held by escapee talks about experience 
                                            
            
 Police: Discovery gunman shot; 3 hostages safe 
                                            
            
 Discovery gunman shot by police, 3 hostages safe 
                                            
            
 Hong Kong police inspect Manila hostage bus 
                                            
            
 80,000 in Hong Kong protest Philippine bus tragedy 
                                            
            
 Weeping family buries hostage-taker in Philippines 
                                            
            
 Philippine leader vows punishment in bus hijack 
                                            
            
 Bodies, survivors of Manila hijack drama head home 
                                            
            
 Al-Qaida group says hostage demands were met 
                                            
            
 China anger after 8 tourists die on hijacked bus 
                                            
            
 Spanish hostages freed by al-Qaida arrive in Spain 
                                            
            
 2 Spanish hostages land in Burkina Faso 
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso — Two Spanish nationals kidnapped nearly nine months ago by an al-Qaida-linked group stepped out of a helicopter to freedom in Burkina Faso’s capital Monday where they were greeted by diplomats. 
                                            
            
 9 killed on hijacked Philippine tourist bus 
                                            
            
 8 killed on hijacked Philippine tourist bus 
                                            
            
 Spanish NGO: kidnapped aid workers free 
MADRID — A Spanish relief organization has confirmed that two of its workers kidnapped in Mauritania in November have been released. 
                                            
            
 Al-Qaida group frees 2 Spanish in Mali 
BAMAKO, Mali — Two Spanish aid workers kidnapped almost nine months ago by an al-Qaida affiliate have been set free, Spain’s prime minister said Monday, ending a hostage drama that involved several nations. 
                                            
            
 Embassy official: 2 Spanish hostages freed 
                                            
            
 France declares war against al-Qaida 
PARIS — France has declared war on al-Qaida, and matched its fighting words with a first attack on a base camp of the terror network’s North African branch, after the terror network killed a French aid worker it took hostage in April. 
                                            
            
 2 German aid workers abducted in Sudan set free 
                                            
            
 France announces war against al-Qaida 
PARIS — France has declared war on al-Qaida, and matched its fighting words with a first attack on a base camp of the terror network’s North African branch, after the terror network killed a French aid worker it took hostage in April. 
                                            
            
 Sarkozy: French aid worker executed in Africa 
                                            
            
 Betancourt says she won’t sue Colombia government 
                                            
            
 Nigeria navy says pirates released foreign sailors 
                                            
            
 Somali pirate cook saves hostages, then disappears 
                                            
            
 4th hostage found in Colombian jungle after raid 
                                            
            
 Calif. hostage standoff ends with man shot dead 
                                            
            
 1-year-old held hostage in Sacramento appears OK 
                                            
            
 Armed man holds 15-month-old hostage in Sacramento 
                                            
            
 Armed man in Sacramento holds 1-year-old hostage 
                                            
            
 Armed suspect barricaded inside Calif. apartment 
                                            
            
 Al-Qaida offshoot grows in the desert 
GAO, Mali — Dozens of Malian troops rush through the sweltering desert, yell war cries and open fire, spitting hundreds of bullets from rifles and machine guns. It’s all part of a training session — run by the United States. 
                                            
            
 Attackers strike sect mosques in Pakistan; 80 dead 
                                            
            
 Kidnappers release 2 American hostages in Yemen 
                                            
             
                                            
            
 Al-Qaida group says it abducted Frenchman in Niger 
                                            
            
 Somali militants to stop piracy, free hostages 
                                            
            
 Somali Islamists vow to stop piracy, free hostages 
                                            
            
 Somali militants push toward pirate stronghold 
                                    
                                                        
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