French President Emmanuel Macron has revealed that the country's envoy to the conflict-ridden state of Niger and his staff are "literally" living like hostages in the embassy.

Macron says French ambassador to Niger 'literally' being held hostage

The inmates released the 50 guards and seven police officers in six Ecuadoran prisons on Friday (September 1) after taking them hostage in the latest incident of narcotics-related mayhem, said the state prison institute.

Inmates in Ecuador jail finally release 50 guards, 7 police officers held hostage

The Sindh government came into action on Sunday after the reports of the demolition of over a century-old-temple in Soldier Bazaar surfaced and promised that construction of any commercial building would not be allowed on a plot which has been emptied after razing the Hindu place of worship.

No construction of building on plot of century-old Hindu temple will be allowed: Karachi mayor

New Zealand prime minister Chris Hipkins has disagreed with US President Joe Biden's remark that Xi Jinping is a “dictator”, as he prepares to meet the Chinese leader on an official trade trip to China.

New Zealand PM disagrees with Joe Biden over Xi Jinping ‘dictator’ remark

The police in Germany on Friday said that a male suspect was arrested after a pharmacy was stormed by a special unit in the southwestern city of Karlsruhe where many people were held hostage for hours.

Police enter Karlsruhe pharmacy, arrest hostage-taker in Germany

During one protest in Colombia, 79 offices and nine oil field workers reportedly were taken hostage by members of rural communities who also blocked access to an oil field and started a fire.

Violence in Colombia: Protesters demand oil firm to build roads in the region

A professor from Australia and his fellow researchers have been freed from captivity more than a week after they were abducted in the highlands of Papua New Guinea.

Papua New Guinea: Australian professor, fellow researchers freed after week-long abduction

Papua New Guinea's Prime Minister James Marape on Monday confirmed that some people have taken an Australian university professor as a hostage in the highlands of Papua New Guinea.

Australian professor taken hostage in Papua New Guinea's highlands, says PM Marape

Separatists in Indonesia's Papua region released hostage pilot images. New Zealand pilot Philip Mehrtens was taken hostage last week.

Indonesia's rebels release images of hostage pilot

A New Zealand pilot has been taken hostage by rebel fighters in Indonesia's Papua region. Information is being gathered on the status of other 5 passengers. The separatist fighters set the commercial plane on fire after it landed in the remote highland area of Papua. The west Papua national liberation army claimed responsibility for the attack...

Chief supervising Editor- TV RI World, Imanuddin Razak speaks to WION

Rebels demand independence for West Papua

Pakistani army commandos on Tuesday stormed a counter-terrorism centre and killed militant detainees who had seized control of the facility, as well as rescuing their hostages, after talks failed to resolve a two-day standoff.

Gravitas Global Headlines: Pakistan army frees hostages, kills all militants

According to the sources, it is now being said that the hostage crisis in Pakistan's Bannu has now ended. The hostages according to report have all been rescued.

WION Dispatch: Pakistan hostage crisis ends after 3 days

A group of terrorists has seized a counter-terrorism centre in the northwestern Pakistani area of Bannu. According to officials, the terrorists took policemen hostages demanding safe passage to neighboring Afghanistan in exchange for their lives.

Terrorists take Pakistani policemen hostage at counter-terrorism center in Bannu

German police confirmed on Saturday that the hostage situation in the eastern German city of Dresden was over. Media reports quoted officials as saying that the gunman was killed after sustaining life-threatening injuries.

Germany: Hostage situation in Dresden over, 'injured' suspect dead

During his remarks at an electric vehicles component plant in Michigan, President Joe Biden spoke on his intention to compete with China. He also added that the US is not going to be held hostage anymore in chip supply.

US will not be held hostage in chip supply, says Joe Biden during Michigan speech

Twelve people were taken hostage by an armed man on Tuesday at a bank in Kutaisi, Georgia's second-largest city, who demanded a hefty sum of money, according to officials.

Gunman who took 12 hostages at a bank in Georgia arrested

A hostage crisis in a bank in Beirut ended after the authorities agreed to grant a local gunman partial access to his frozen funds in exchange for releasing all six hostages.

WION Dispatch: Lebanon bank hostage crisis ends after partial payout

An armed Lebanese man stormed into a bank in Beirut on Thursday, holding staff members hostage and threatening to light himself on fire with gasoline if he didn't receive his trapped savings, a security official reported.

Armed man demanding savings holds Beirut bank staff hostage

The man who held a customer hostage at gunpoint at an Amsterdam Apple store has died of the injuries he sustained during his arrest, public prosecutors said on Wednesday.

Hostage taker in Amsterdam Apple store dies of his injuries

A British Pakistani took hostages in America's Texas this weekend. The terrorist was the brother of "Lady Al-Qaeda" - a woman who is serving an 86-year-long jail term in the US. Is Britain the new laboratory for radical Islam? Palki Sharma brings you a report.

Gravitas: United Kingdom: A new launchpad for terror attacks?

The man who died after holding four people hostage at a Texas synagogue was identified by the FBI as a 44-year-old British citizen named Malik Faisal Akram. US President Joe Biden has called this incident an “act of terror”.

FBI identifies Texas hostage-taker as British citizen named Malik Faisal Akram

An unidentified man in Texas had taken hostage four people at a synagogue, demanding the release of Aafia Siddiqui, dubbed as the “Lady Qaeda”, who is currently lodged in US jail.

Who is Aafia Siddiqui, the Pak prisoner at the centre of Texas hostage situation?

Three Chinese men kidnapped in Mali escaped their captors at the weekend and were rescued by security forces on Monday, the Sahel state's army said. The trio was abducted on July 17 when armed men attacked a construction site in the southwest of the conflict-ridden country.

Three Chinese hostages in Mali rescued after escape

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