U.S. companies have been taken hostage by the political debate and the fiscal cliff.
He was 76 years old when he was taken hostage in February 1999, according to the complaint.
Three crewman have been taken hostage after pirates attacked a British ship off the west coast of Africa.
Then came the next big break: In the pre-dawn hours of Friday, a motorist was carjacked and taken hostage.
He was later taken hostage in an enclosed lifeboat that was soon shadowed by US warships and a helicopter.
France declared war on AQIM in 2010, after a 78-year-old aid worker taken hostage died in Mr. Zeid's custody.
Mark Grant, from Grangemouth, is believed to have been among the foreign nationals taken hostage at the gas plant.
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Our navies have confronted the danger of piracy, with U.S. sailors even rescuing Iranian citizens who had been taken hostage.
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The Chandlers, of Tunbridge Wells, were taken hostage on October 23 as they sailed their yacht in the Indian Ocean.
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The contractors, working for Canada's Gran Tierra Energy, were taken hostage in the southern Cauca region, Reuters news agency reports.
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The three, Marc Gonsalves, Keith Stansell and Thomas Howe, were taken hostage by the Farc after their plane crashed in the jungle.
Mr Taylor was taken hostage while working for Texas-based oil firm Weatherford.
The situation with oil workers taken hostage in Algeria puts a "dark cloud" over the country's production, an international energy body has said.
Among those attending Tuesday's meeting were the family of Margaret Hassan, the British aid worker who was taken hostage and killed in Iraq in 2004.
British special forces are on standby to stage a rescue mission in Algeria, after foreign gas plant workers were taken hostage, says the Times.
The companies and the governments of those taken hostage have given few details about the number and identity of those taken captive, citing security reasons.
Vallandingham was among 12 staff members taken hostage on April 11, 1993, when inmates overtook the prison that sits 10 miles north of the Ohio River.
In the past, most of the people taken hostage were Russians, but in recent months foreigners working for charities and non-governmental organisations have also become kidnap targets.
The force could also be made available to support the UN in an emergency, such as the crisis in May when UN peacekeepers were attacked and taken hostage.
Turkey's foreign ministry confirmed late Wednesday that a Turkish male citizen, Aydin Tufan Tekin, had been taken hostage in Lebanon and said Turkish diplomats were working to obtain his release.
In December 1998, a group of 16 western tourists, mostly British, was seized at gunpoint on a remote desert road in southern Yemen and taken hostage by fanatical, machine-gun-wielding militants.
Anderson told the story of Frank Reed, a fifty-four-year-old American private-school director who was taken hostage and held in solitary confinement for four months before being put in with Anderson.
Paul and Rachel Chandler, who were taken hostage by Somali pirates in 2009, have told Radio 5 live that they were disappointed in the way the government handled their kidnapping.
Numerous other Yemeni soldiers were taken hostage, officials said.
In 1995, when hundreds of peacekeepers were taken hostage by the Bosnian Serbs, Britain and France were desperately grateful to Mr Milosevic and his security chief, Jovica Stanisic, for negotiating their release.
Mr Le Drian also said during his interview that seven French citizens who had been taken hostage in Niger and Mali in recent years "are alive", and there had been "contacts with hostage-takers".
In contrast with Shell--Nigerian civil unrest has disrupted one-quarter of its output for the past 18 months--Addax has had no outages, but several contractors have been taken hostage, and last February one was killed trying to escape.
If the worst happens, and employees are seriously injured or are taken hostage, some corporations will already have have emergency evacuation plans in place, and even hostage negotiators on hand, particularly if a ransom is being demanded.
Serving as a platoon commander in 1 Para, Mr Ellicock was flown to Sierra Leone in September 2000 to take part in the rescue of five soldiers from the Royal Irish Regiment taken hostage by a rebel militia.
He contacted her later that morning and told her that he had been taken hostage and told her that he understood that the kidnappers were demanding the hostages be exchanged for al Qaeda prisoners in Mali, the spokesman said.
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