Several police officers were held hostage by angry demonstrators in the same city but later released.
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The Italian Foreign Ministry reported Saturday that four Italian journalists who were held hostage in Syria for more than a week were released.
Official demonstrations mark the anniversary of the seizure of the American embassy in 1979, after which 53 Americans were held hostage for 444 days.
One piece of good news is that the three Britons who were held hostage by the Chechen rebels, two towards the end, survived the ordeal.
The French public's rejoicing at the freeing of two journalists who were held hostage in Iraq continued though so did questions over whether a ransom had been paid.
Its gung-ho aura grew when, after two EDSmen were held hostage in a maximum-security prison in Iran in 1979, EDS' own commandos, the Sunshine Boys, staged a private rescue.
The robbers stole millions from the vaults of the bank's headquarters at Donegall Square West on 20 December, as the families of the two bank officials were held hostage.
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For two months this summer, four Japanese geologists and several local people who had been working in the southern part of the country were held hostage by Islamic guerrillas.
Other lawsuits have been filed against the FARC in federal court, records show -- including a pending 2009 case seeking damages filed by three American contractors who were held hostage by the guerrilla group.
However, the widower's tangled love life was exposed on the programme, and there was tragedy for him when he and his pregnant mistress Serena Donovan were held hostage during a siege at the hospital.
"It would be disappointing and disturbing if our ability to provide assistance to victims of natural disasters and our troops in Bosnia and Iraq were held hostage to partisan politics in the House, " White House Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles said in a statement.
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Such demonstrations are organised every year, but are not attended by reformists such as Abbas Abdi and others who took part in the embassy seizure, which led to a rupture of relations between the two countries as US diplomats were held hostage for 444 days.
He said the latest reports indicate she is being held near Haredhere, a pirate base almost 200 miles (320 km) up the coast from the Somali capital, Mogadishu - the same area where the British couple Paul and Rachel Chandler were held hostage for more than a year.
But the Iran hostage crisis played a huge role because the American people were horrified that our fellow citizens were being held hostage, number one.
He said the couple were being held hostage on a Singapore-registered container ship called the Kota Wajah.
The Algerian military's intervention apparently came as a surprise to some of the governments whose nationals were being held hostage.
In the early 1990s, patients who could not pay were sometimes held hostage for weeks until their families found cash to free them.
All four Gwinnett County, Georgia, firefighters who were being held hostage suffered minor injuries when authorities entered a home to free them, Gwinnett County police spokesman Ed Ritter said.
The circumstances are unclear but a video posted by opposition activists purported to show a young Alawite boy describing how government forces had destroyed a building where the civilians were being held hostage by pro-government militia.
The 444 days that began on November 4, 1979 deeply affected the lives of courageous Americans who were unjustly held hostage, and we owe these Americans and their families our gratitude for their extraordinary service and sacrifice.
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He said their captors had not officially asked for a ransom and that they were currently being held hostage on board a container ship.
Five firefighters were initially being held hostage, but one of them was released late Wednesday afternoon so he could move the fire truck from in front of the house, according to the fire department spokesman.
Two Israeli athletes were killed and nine held hostage in an attempt to gain the freedom of 200 Palestinian prisoners held by Israel.
Earlier, Algeria's state media reported that all Algerian nationals who had been held hostage were free: some had fled, while others were released.
On Thursday, Algeria's state media reported that all Algerian nationals who had been held hostage were free: some had fled, while others were released.
They made it clear they were no longer prepared to be held hostage by the Greeks.
All 86 passengers who had been held hostage for five days were freed.
Commandos were continuing their sweep of another hotel, the Oberoi-Trident, where a number of guests were trapped in their rooms or being held hostage, said JK Dutt, of the National Security Guards.
They held 52 Americans hostage, and we were pathetically impotent in our efforts to do anything about it.
On Wednesday, the al-Shabab account posted a link to a video of two Kenyan civil servants held hostage in Somalia, telling the Kenyan government their lives were in danger unless it released all Muslims held on "so-called terrorism charges" in the country, reports Reuters news agency.
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