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Two hostages and gunman dead after police storm Sydney café where 17 were held hostage

A hostage crisis in Australia has come to a dramatic and tragic end, 16 hours after it first began

15/12/2014

World News

Australia: two hostages and gunman killed as police storm Sydney siege café

A hostage crisis in Sydney, Australia, has come to a dramatic and tragic end, 16 hours after it first began

15/12/2014

World News

Sydney siege: "This guy appears to be a lone actor" says terrorism expert

Australian police have released the identity of the suspected gunman at the centre of the siege in a Sydney cafe as Man Haron Monis. An Iranian

15/12/2014

World News

Sydney siege: Australians react to the hostage drama

With the siege in Sydney still underway, heavily armed police surround the Lindt cafe in Martin Place. The area will remain in lockdown until

15/12/2014

World News

Australia: two hostages and gunman dead after police storm Sydney siege café

A hostage crisis in Sydney, Australia, has come to a dramatic and tragic end, 16 hours after it first began

15/12/2014

World News

Sydney siege: Five hostages run from cafe

Five people have run out of the cafe at the centre of a siege in Sydney several hours after the incident began. Two women and three men were seen

15/12/2014

World News

Gunman takes hostages inside a Sydney cafe

Armed police mount a standoff against a gunman who takes dozens hostage in a possible Islamist terror attack

15/12/2014

France

Hollande leads homecoming for freed French hostage Serge Lazarevic

French former hostage Serge Lazarevic has arrived back on home soil – his nightmare over after three years of captivity in the hands of al Qaeda’s

10/12/2014

France

Last French hostage freed by al Qaeda begins his long journey home

The last French hostage to be held anywhere in the world has begun his journey home. Serge Lazarevic thanked the president of Niger for being an intermediary in arranging his freedom from al Qaeda.

09/12/2014

Mali

French hostage Serge Lazarevic freed three years after capture by al Qaeda in Mali

A French hostage has been freed by North African Islamist militants who had abducted him in Mali three years ago. Serge Lazarevic was taken by

09/12/2014

Yemen

American hostage Luke Somers killed in failed rescue attempt says sister

The sister of an American photojournalist held by Al Qaeda militants in Yemen says he has been killed in a failed rescue attempt. Thirty

06/12/2014

Yemen

Al Qaeda militants in Yemen threaten to kill US hostage Luke Somers

Al Qaeda militants in Yemen have released a video purportedly showing a British-born US hostage, with the threat to kill him.

04/12/2014

Colombia

FARC release captured Colombian general and call for a bilateral ceasefire

30/11/2014

Colombia

Colombia: Peace talks could resume as FARC rebels release two hostages

26/11/2014

United Kingdom

UK: police probe claims three women were held as slaves in London for more than 30 years

21/11/2013

World

Rasmussen: 'No role for NATO in Mali'

18/01/2013