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Taken hostage in Syria Cantlie was taken hostage while reporting in Syria in November 2012.
And he disappeared — taken hostage — shortly after he landed.
In 1979, it was not only Americans taken hostage by a medieval theocratic order; the Iranian people were also taken hostage and held captive after their democratic revolution was usurped by Khomeini.
So did foreigners, some of whom also were taken hostage.
He has never been taken hostage or held at gunpoint.
Officials said four staff members had initially been taken hostage.
During the incident in Tennessee, one officer was briefly taken hostage.
Some shoppers at the mall were taken hostage for a time.
"We almost felt like we were being taken hostage," Bridges said.
Lindhout, a freelance journalist, was taken hostage in Somalia on Aug.
Dozens of inmates were also taken hostage during the unfolding drama.
Soon a prison guard was shot and taken hostage, relatives said.
Many abduction victims are killed shortly after they are taken hostage.
Russia denied that any of their military personnel had been taken hostage.
Benson is taken hostage while trying to stop a violent home invasion.
Well it turns out they hadn't been taken hostage by the Riddler.
He was then taken hostage for eight hours before he was killed.
And Ruhollah Khomeini after Americans were taken hostage in Iran in 28503.
"She was taken hostage just to put pressure on me," he said.
Soon, the woman provided an explanation: The five had been taken hostage.
They should not be taken hostage to serve the interests of some pilots.
Buba says she was taken hostage exactly one year and 33 months ago.
Buba says she was taken hostage exactly one year and 10 months ago.
Some cadets were taken hostage during the raid, which lasted nearly five hours.
But to many, it looks as if his presidency has been taken hostage.
There were also unconfirmed reports of at least 20 civilians being taken hostage.
The case for damages was brought by 409 Russian nationals who either were taken hostage or injured in the incident, or were family members of those taken hostage, killed or injured, the European Court of Human Rights statement said in April.
There are unconfirmed reports that they have taken hostage the families of some defectors.
It looked like the Hollywood power could had been taken hostage by Barnaby Joyce.
Police found no one dead, injured or taken hostage inside the house, he said.
Among the parishioners in Rouen was a nun who was taken hostage at Hamel's church.
Another prison official who had been taken hostage was rescued from the prison's C Building.
Hotels and cars were destroyed and four policemen have been taken hostage, the government said.
Civilians were taken hostage, thousands of them fled and almost the whole city was evacuated.
A mother and her teenage daughter who had been taken hostage were rescued, he said.
Since he was taken hostage, Mr. Cantlie has appeared in several Islamic State propaganda videos.
Four employees were initially taken hostage, but two of them were released a few hours later.
By the time backup arrived, four corrections employees, including a female counselor, had been taken hostage.
Fontes said 74 prisoners were taken hostage during the riot, with some executed and some released.
Without his testimony they might never know why they or their family members were taken hostage.
Some 200 trainees are stationed at the facility, officials said, and some had been taken hostage.
In both instances the attacks targeted establishments popular with Westerners, dozens of whom were taken hostage.
According to Delaware Online, five correctional officers were taken hostage at around 10:30am Wednesday morning.
A third gunmen had stayed in the helicopter with the pilot, who had been taken hostage.
A sergeant rounded up the children and moved them to safety before he was taken hostage.
The group has recently beheaded two Canadians taken hostage last year, but recently freed Filipina, Marites Flor.
There was the press conference where an entire Twittersphere jokingly wondered whether Christie had been taken hostage.
In the future, it could be a person's car or pacemaker that is taken hostage, they said.
In October, a South Korean ship was seized, with its captain and Philippine crewmember also taken hostage.
Since then, the government has faced questions about its protocols around paying ransoms for Canadians taken hostage.
If a migrant is taken hostage, the insurance guarantees that smugglers will negotiate for the person's release.
"If Russians have been taken hostage ... there will soon be consequences," the ministry was quoted as saying.
The Illinois native was reportedly taken hostage in Khost, a province near the Afghanistan and Pakistan border.
In March the football team of the University of Buea was taken hostage; many parents paid ransoms.
Officials previously said a total of five staff members were taken hostage, but later lowered the number.
The Japanese have also been unsympathetic to captives who go into danger zones and are taken hostage.
At least one other person was taken hostage but released after a little more than two hours.
The expedition soon turned into a nightmare when Caldwell and three others were taken hostage by militant rebels.
By the time backup arrived, four corrections employees, including a female counselor, had been taken hostage, police said.
When Drift's second-in-command is taken hostage, they're forced to raise the funds to get her back.
Bashar, also wounded, according to reports, and taken hostage by Assad's military, has not been heard from since.
Russia and the government say that civilians have been taken hostage by the fighters in rebel-held areas.
In Afghanistan, a 73-year-old man from Massachusetts who was taken hostage in 2014 remains unaccounted for.
Swiss shareholder group Actares said insurance systems are being "taken hostage" by high prices for life-saving drugs.
Four prison officers were also taken hostage in Bologna, where 350 inmates occupied two sections of the jail.
The Royal Belgian Football Association said on Tuesday that it would not be "taken hostage" by the controversy.
At least 1,728 people have been rescued after either being taken hostage or being trapped in the firefight.
But the son is taken hostage by bank robbers, and his father must scramble to meet their demands.
A corrections worker taken hostage by inmates was found dead this morning, a day after the standoff began.
In February, 22 Indian nationals were taken hostage on an oil vessel off the coast of West Africa.
Users are warned that entering the wrong decryption code could lead to files that are taken hostage being destroyed.
McAvoy plays a British Secret Service agent who's taken hostage by Jihadist fighters while on a mission in Somalia.
S (Maria Doyle Kennedy), and daughter Kira (Skyler Wexler) were taken hostage and her sestra Cosima (Maslany) went missing.
And while no prison guards were among the victims, two were taken hostage by prisoners and were eventually released.
They had been among four officers taken hostage in the inmate uprising that broke out about 10:30 a.m.
We've encouraged them, frankly, to take more hostages and put more American lives at risk of being taken hostage.
Most of the dead died in the fire, they said, while two guards were taken hostage, but later released.
We've encouraged them, frankly, to take more hostages and put more American lives at risk of being taken hostage.
In November, Islamic State said it had killed a Chinese citizen it had taken hostage in the Middle East.
It is also intended to compensate the Americans taken hostage at the United States Embassy in Tehran in 1979.
Tino Sehgal's work can adopt the worst patterns of participatory art in which the visitor is virtually taken hostage.
Jacques Hamel, an 86-year-old priest who had been taken hostage, was killed, the French broadcaster Francetvinfo reports.
Twenty-four hours after he arrived in Timbuktu, Mali, Mr. Gustafsson was taken hostage from his hotel at gunpoint.
In the chaos, the two robbery suspects, the UPS truck driver taken hostage and Cutshaw, were killed, authorities said.
In "Trespass," she plays Sarah, a member of a family who is taken hostage by a group of extortionists.
In the same state, some election workers and police officers were taken hostage, but released unharmed, the groups said.
On Monday, the Philippine military said a German national was believed to be the latest person to be taken hostage.
The fishing vessel Naham 3 had its 26 Asian crew members taken hostage and held for more than four years.
Hearst later claimed in recordings released to the media that she'd developed an affinity for the group while taken hostage.
Two of the crew are still missing after they were taken hostage by two pirates who escaped in another vessel.
Two French soldiers were killed in an operation to rescue four people taken hostage in Burkina last week, France said.
An American woman, Kayla Mueller, taken hostage and killed by ISIS, inspired the name for the raid to kill Baghdadi.
At a military housing block, a sergeant helped get children who were playing outside to safety before being taken hostage.
Previous collaborator Grant Singer has directed the clip, and it finds Abel Tesfaye and his new hair getting taken hostage.
The operation to stop the hijacker and rescue the crew members who were taken hostage took eight minutes, authorities said.
Boyle and his wife were taken hostage in 2012 by a Taliban-linked group while on a backpacking trip in Afghanistan.
Context: The 26-year-old Mueller was taken hostage by ISIS in August 2013 while doing relief work with Syrian refugees.
Kurtulmus said Turkey was trying to warn Europe over what it sees as European politics being taken hostage by rising racism.
Chinese universities, Russia's interior ministry and Britain's National Health Service (NHS) all saw their computer systems taken hostage in the attack.
Pulido, a Mexican national and striker for Greece's Olympiacos club, was rescued late Sunday, a day after he was taken hostage.
She was taken hostage by ISIS in Aleppo, Syria, in 2013 after she visited a Spanish MSF (Doctors Without Borders) hospital.
The most obvious example of this is clearly poor Bernard (Jeffrey Wright), whose mind has been taken hostage by the imprint?
Next we find out that a beauty queen has been taken hostage, and that five schools are vying to rescue her.
He was taken hostage in Iraq in 2004 with three other Japanese but was freed after Islamic clerics negotiated his release.
Kidnap for ransom attacks increased, with 18 incidents of kidnapping and 96 seafarers taken hostage, up from 44 the previous year.
Mr. Sutherland was among dozens of Westerners taken hostage in Beirut in the 1980s at the height of Lebanon's civil war.
Turkey's state-run Anadolu news agency said the chief of Turkey's military staff had been taken "hostage" in the capital Ankara.
"The first indications show that she was certainly taken hostage by a terrorist group, al Mourabitoun," prosecutor Boubacar Sidiki Samake told Reuters.
"More great economic news on Friday," McEnany, who legitimately comes across like someone taken hostage by Stephen Miller, preaches to the choir.
Three other corrections employees were also taken hostage, including a female counselor who was "shielded" and protected by some of the inmates.
President Trump welcoming American Joshua Holt back to the White House two years after he was taken hostage and imprisoned in Venezuela.
The Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) confirmed that a priest in Marawi City has been taken hostage, reported CNN Philippines.
McGown was taken hostage while on vacation in Timbuktu, northern Mali, along with Swedish national Johan Gustafsson and Dutch national Sjaak Rijke.
In Oklahoma in July, two corrections officers were taken hostage during a mele involving about 400 prisoners at Great Plains Correctional Facility.
"When Americans are taken hostage by terrorist groups, there's this framework that says we don't negotiate, there are no concessions," Simon said.
I asked why and they told us not to tell other family members or close friends that Luke had been taken hostage.
In 1970, he was taken hostage for a month while covering the civil war in Chad with a group including Mr. Pledge.
Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.) is mourning two Emory University students taken hostage and killed during a terror attack in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
But many of the seamen taken hostage by Somali pirates have at least been set free fast, once fat ransoms have been paid.
The film, starring Gerard Butler and Gary Oldman, features a plot in which Russia's president is taken hostage by his own defense minister.
And in late October, the body of a South Korean man Noi-Sung Hong, taken hostage by Abu Sayyaf in January, was found.
Russia's Foreign Ministry warned Ukraine "there will soon be consequences" if any Russian crew members were "taken hostage", the RIA news agency reported.
Hafiz Abdul Qaum says the attack happened early Thursday in Kamdesh district and seven staff members were taken hostage, with five later freed.
Hostages escape Militants had executed more than a dozen people, and numerous others had been taken hostage, the Department of National Defense said.
On Tuesday, 10 Turkish sailors were taken hostage by armed pirates who attacked a Turkish-flagged cargo ship off the coast of Nigeria.
"And if you are taken hostage there, say your Our Fathers because I will never, never pay anything to retrieve you," he added.
Imaankaf Darifa, the woman taken hostage in the school on Monday, told the AP that she tried to keep the attacker from children.
This theme found its fullest expression in her 2001 best seller, Bel Canto, whose glamorous characters were taken hostage at a birthday party.
Amazing — Iran finally has been requested by our government to compensate our American U.S. Embassy employees violently taken hostage by Iranian terrorist kidnappers.
You'd rather not think about pilots getting drunk, Air Force One being taken hostage, or snakes somehow making their way onto your flight.
If a group of Jewish people are taken hostage or under threat somewhere, the IDF or Mossad will come and get them out.
I have talked with boys and girls who were taken hostage by Boko Haram and then in turn forced to kidnap other children.
One photo, Mr. Tahlil wrote, depicted the man who had broken Mr. Moore's hand when he was taken hostage, according to the complaint.
In keeping with Murphy's law, the home comes under siege; Ms. Union's character has to save her children after they are taken hostage.
Initially, 66 Americans were taken hostage, but that number dwindled to 52 by July 000 as some hostages were released for various reasons.
Several Indonesian sailors were taken hostage earlier this year by suspected members of militant group Abu Sayyaf, a group known for piracy and kidnappings.
The first was a terrorist attack on a school in Beslan, in the north Causasus, in which 000,225 people, mostly children, were taken hostage.
"Wizard of Wall Street" Lee Gates, who is taken hostage on-air by a rogue gunman (Jack O'Connell) while hosting the show Money Monster.
US forces are reportedly responding to an American citizen who was taken hostage by militants linked to the Taliban in Afghanistan on January 30.
"I feel like the Newman family has been taken hostage by Bob Forrester," the eldest daughter, Susan Kendall Newman, told Vanity Fair in 2015.
The head of the Bundesbank reiterated that defense on Wednesday, saying central banks should avoid being taken hostage by financial markets or fiscal policies.
At his Christmas eve Mass on Saturday, Francis said the feast had been "taken hostage" by dazzling materialism that puts God in the shadows.
Thanks to the hijabs, multiple news outlets are reporting that Judy King has been taken hostage in a "possible terror situation" at the prison.
Ms. Garcia's story takes place in 1943 in Cuba, where a night watchman is taken hostage by German soldiers who arrive in a submarine.
Government officials in Yobe State, where Dapchi is, said on Wednesday that they had no credible information that the girls had been taken hostage.
Prison guards union Sappe said two guards had been taken hostage in the northern city of Pavia and were released after a police raid.
The report examined the cases of 21,24 Westerners from 22014 countries who have been taken hostage overseas by terrorist, militant and pirate groups since 22014.
When an archeological team is taken hostage, Torin's team is sent in, only to find that their mission is far more complicated than previously thought.
In 2000 a group of British peacekeepers in Sierra Leone who refused to fire on children armed with AK-47s were taken hostage by them.
The initial demand was one billion pesos each for the detainees, who were taken hostage at an upscale resort on Samal Island on Sept. 21.
PARIS (Reuters) - A priest taken hostage in a church in Normandy, northern France, was killed with a blade, a police source told Reuters on Tuesday.
Father Teresito "Chito" Soganub, the vicar general of Marawi City, had been taken hostage by Islamist militants along with about a dozen of his parishioners.
Ridsdel was one of two Canadians who were taken hostage last September by Abu Sayyaf, considered by the Canadian Government to be a terrorist organization.
The International Committee of the Red Cross said that a second midwife taken hostage by Boko Haram jihadists in north-eastern Nigeria had been murdered.
"They beat us and we were kept bound in a room," said Abdul Hamid Mir, the boy's uncle and one of those also taken hostage.
They and other British extremists, including a former Londoner known as Jihadi John, belonged to a team that executed Americans taken hostage by the group.
Eight guards and 10 inmates had been taken hostage during the riot that began Sunday afternoon, the Rio state penitentiary administration said in a statement.
In one of the clashes, police said two Lashkar militants killed a 12-year-old boy they had taken hostage before being gunned down themselves.
"Europe is being taken hostage by American policy," said Marietje Schaake, the vice president of the European Parliament's Delegation for Relations With the United States.
Two nuns and two worshippers were also taken hostage after the attackers stormed into the church during mass, according to the French broadcaster France 3.
The rescue ended an intensive effort by American intelligence officials to locate the couple — who had been taken hostage in October 2012 — and their children.
Its legacy is felt even today; President Trump recently threatened to attack 52 Iranian locations to mirror the 52 Americans taken hostage at the embassy.
Here's a map of how tens of thousands of Windows computers were taken hostage by malicious software that encrypted files and demanded a ransom payment.
Hours later, after Guzmán was released, the cartel did the same for nine soldiers and two officers who had been taken hostage, according to Sandoval.
The ambassador was 76 years old when he was taken hostage in February 1999, during a period of extreme violence between drug traffickers and paramilitary groups.
A report from the International Maritime Bureau says that, in the first six months of last year, 250 crews were taken hostage in successful naval hijackings.
Two officers are were killed and dozens were wounded or taken hostage after ISIS gunmen attacked a cafe in Bangladesh Friday night, according to multiple reports.
Days after Pandit's death in March, 12-year old Atif Mir was taken hostage by militants in Bandipora, in north Kashmir, along with six other relatives.
Parents complained that they were not certain if their children had been taken hostage because no official list of names was published, according to news reports.
An armed robbery at a Florida jewelry store escalated into an intense rush-hour car chase involving a hijacked UPS truck, with its driver taken hostage.
"He took the high road so UNAIDS could move on," Sidibé said, and prevented the organization from being "taken hostage" by the court of public opinion.
Mr. Cantlie, a freelance photographer, was taken hostage in November 2012, along with the American journalist James Foley, who filed for GlobalPost and Agence France-Presse.
Lopez has spent his decades-long career flying across the world, acting for distraught families whose loved ones have been taken hostage by terrorists and criminals.
What it's about: A punk band reluctantly takes a gig at a skinhead bar, only to find themselves taken hostage by a gang of neo-Nazis.
"I totally agreed that this conflict has caused battiness and hatred among our people, but we should not be taken hostage by battiness and hatred," he said.
Human Rights Watch researcher Tara Sepehri Far said there is a rising trend of people taken hostage in Iran and used as bargaining chips for political gains.
Levinson, a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and Federal Bureau of Investigation agent, was taken hostage in 2007 and has not been in contact with his family since.
The convent was badly damaged during fighting in 2013 and 12 nuns were taken hostage and held by Islamist fighters for months before they were released unharmed.
"The United States continues to work through every possible means to ensure the safe release of U.S. citizens reported missing or taken hostage in Syria," they said.
"Pompeo and other U.S. officials are trapped in old illusions ... They are taken hostage by corrupt pressure groups," Zarif said in a live interview on state television.
Being purely humanitarian and not part of broader truce or political negotiations, aid deliveries were less likely to be taken hostage by rival sides, the person said.
Multiple guards were taken hostage by inmates Wednesday at the James T. Vaughn Correctional Center in Smyrna, Delaware, a Correctional Officers Association of Delaware official tells PEOPLE.
Earlier, in 2004, a Japanese high school graduate, an aid worker and a freelance photographer taken hostage in Iraq were also condemned as irresponsible after their release.
The Russian defense ministry denied any military personnel were taken hostage, RIA news agency said citing a Russian military official at the Hmeimim air base in Syria.
CNN Philippines reported that 10 people taken hostage while fleeing Marawi had escaped their Maute captors during an air strike on Monday and were in safe hands.
"I and over 11 others have been taken hostage by SARS accusing us of being cultists," he wrote during a series of frantic tweets from the cell.
The disembodied voices of family and former friends pled for rescue … they'd been taken hostage by futuristic criminals with the technology to put voices in my head.
After President Trump referred to the dozens of Americans taken hostage in 211, survivors said they were still waiting for the full $21979 million payment once promised.
MOGADISHU, Somalia — Somali troops on Wednesday rescued eight Indians who had been taken hostage two days earlier by pirates near the coastal town of Hobyo, officials said.
Soon I'm working on a story for Rolling Stone with him about an American soldier from Idaho who'd been taken hostage by the Taliban, named Bowe Bergdahl.
About 35 people were taken hostage Friday night when gunmen stormed the popular Holey Artisan Bakery in Dhaka's Gulshan area, a diplomatic zone, during the Ramadan holy month.
All of this information points towards the leading theory Jaime is actually alive and taken hostage by Team Targaryen, meaning the Kingslayer is now his little brother's captive.
One such example was the release of Caitlan Coleman and her Canadian husband, Josh Boyle, nearly five years after they were taken hostage by a Taliban-affiliated group.
Security forces responded with two raids in the span of a week, killing dozens of militants and freeing a police officer who was taken hostage during the attack.
An American professor taken hostage by the Taliban in Afghanistan last year is seriously ill, according to a statement Monday from the extremist group reported by CBS News.
About 50 people were in the market in Trèbes at the time of the attack, Mr. Molins said, although he could not specify how many were taken hostage.
He was believed to have been taken hostage by the Nusra Front, which now calls itself Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham, a group known to capture foreigners for ransom.
The woman taken hostage at the school, who works as a cleaner there, spoke to Belgian state radio on Wednesday, identifying herself only by her first name, Darifa.
Ivan and another brother, Alfredo, were briefly taken hostage by the rival Jalisco New Generation cartel while their dad was still running the show from prison in 2016.
He ministered to victims of the firebombing of Tokyo during World War II. He was taken hostage in 22000 when Japanese Red Army terrorists hijacked a commercial jet.
Wilbanks, then 32, emerged three days later and claimed that she had been taken hostage by a Latino man and caucasian woman while she was out for a run.
In 1979, President Jimmy Carter, a Democrat, used the law to block all the assets in the United States belonging to Iran after Americans in Tehran were taken hostage.
A severed head that could belong to a Canadian taken hostage by Islamic State-affiliate Abu Sayyaf has been found in the Philippines, according to reports out of Manila.
US forces are allegedly responding to an American citizen who was taken hostage by militants linked to the Taliban in Afghanistan on January 30, according to a new report.
If Jaime is to be rescued — and he'll have to be pulled out of that lake pretty quickly if he's going to survive — he'll almost certainly be taken hostage.
Four Jews, including his friend, died in the kosher supermarket in Paris after being taken hostage with 25 other shoppers by a militant claiming allegiance to the Islamic State.
Last month, the Arakan Army said Myanmar's army sank several boats carrying dozens of soldiers and police officers taken hostage by the ethnic group, adding that many had died.
Hulusi Akar, who was briefly taken hostage by the plotters on the night of the coup, also said the armed forces would continue to perform their duties with determination.
Our democracy is a work in progress, but we must ensure it is not taken hostage by those who put their own interests over those of the American people.
Held hostage by opportunistic separatist authorities, they are simultaneously cast as outlaws by the Ukrainian government — as separatist sympathizers and disloyal citizens, whose sin was having been taken hostage.
Mr. Besconde was seized four months ago in the Celebes Sea and was taken hostage by an Abu Sayyaf commander, whom the military identified only as Sadjawaan. Brig. Gen.
"The Yobe state government has no credible information yet as to whether any of the schoolgirls was taken hostage by the terrorists," said Abdullahi Bego, an aide to Gov.
Belgium&aposs interior minister says the woman taken hostage inside a school in Tuesday&aposs shooting in Liege may have talked the gunman down and helped to avoid more deaths.
Tara is ultimately proven right when Jesus is taken hostage by the man, who reveals he was just pretending in an attempt to trick the duo into letting him go.
All of the defendants are charged with kidnapping, riot and conspiracy in the February uprising, during which correctional officer Steven Floyd was killed and three other prison workers taken hostage.
Kevin King was 59 years old and a professor at the American University of Afghanistan when he was taken hostage along with an Australian colleague, Timothy Weeks, in August 2016.
Erbol radio reported that Illanes sent out an early call for help, soon after he was taken hostage, in which he said he had been threatened with being cut up.
John McCain, who retired from the Navy as a captain, awarded a Silver Star and a Distinguished Flying Cross, was only a war hero because he had been taken hostage.
The News Journal reported Wednesday afternoon that it had received a phone call from a woman claiming her fiancé was an inmate in the prison who had been taken hostage.
At first, officials thought that five employees had been taken hostage, but one who was hiding in another part of the building, unknown to the inmates, was able to escape.
BARBARA ROSEN New York The writer is the wife of Barry Rosen, the former United States Embassy press attaché in Tehran who was taken hostage by Iranian militants in 1979.
A protest by inmates overnight had spiraled out of control, one prisoner was killed and a number of guards were taken hostage, Nuevo Leon state security spokesman Aldo Fasci told reporters.
The mother of four young children who were taken hostage and killed in a standoff earlier this week in Orlando, Florida, is "shell-shocked right now," a family friend tells PEOPLE.
The two women were friends of American humanitarian aid worker Kayla Mueller, who was taken hostage by ISIS in 2013 in Aleppo, Syria, and killed 18 months later, ABC News reports.
And even as "implementation" day arrived and the U.S. and Iran worked out a deal to free prisoners, three more Americans were taken hostage in Baghdad, reportedly by Iran-backed militias.
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Surveyors were taken hostage in Yemen, accused of being representatives of Dracula in Papua New Guinea, worked in sandstorms and temperatures of 2200 degrees Celsius in Ethiopia.
In the middle of a live broadcast, the fast-talking host of a "Mad Money"-style show is taken hostage, along with his crew, including the producer, played by Julia Roberts.
Sladjana Stankovic, a communications officer, and Jovica Stepic , a driver, were taken hostage on November 8 when their diplomatic convoy was attacked by militants near the western coastal city of Sabratha.
Americans who were taken hostage at the U.S. Embassy in Iran back in the 1979 say they have seen little of the compensation authorized by Congress in 2015 for their imprisonment.
The generous benefits packaging includes a company apartment and a company car, but also a company tracking chip, surgically installed in employees' heads so they can be found if they're taken hostage.
"I was told not to bring anything but personal goods, so I've got nothing but my clothes to take back," the man said, adding that he wasn't worried about being taken hostage.
A California couple found safe along with their two daughters after being taken hostage by river pirates in South America detailed to police their hours in captivity on the alleged criminals' boat.
"I care when democracy is taken hostage and used as a pawn in political games," said Andriukaitis, who was born and lived for decades in the Soviet Union, which collapsed in 1991.
No students were taken hostage at the school in Pigcawayan town in North Cotabato province on Mindanao island, said Brigadier General Restituto Padilla, discounting earlier reports that some children were being held.
Mr. Limbert, who as a young foreign service officer was one of the Americans taken hostage in 1979 at the embassy in Tehran, speculated that Russia was paying handsomely for the privilege.
Two of the new chiefs were also taken hostage during the failed coup, and their selection was interpreted as a reward for their loyalty as well as a recognition of their abilities.
Rewind to a time when Mikhail Gorbachev was ascending to the leadership of the Soviet Communist Party, Terry Anderson was taken hostage in Lebanon and Tiananmen Square was just another place in Beijing.
"Mr Pompeo and other U.S. officials in the current administration are prisoners of their wrong illusions, prisoners of their past and have been taken hostage by corrupt pressure groups," he told state television.
Indonesia earlier this year slapped a moratorium on coal shipments to its neighbour after a string of hijackings by militants based in the southern Philippines, in which several Indonesian sailors were taken hostage.
Deputy Interior Minister Rodolfo Illanes was killed on Thursday after being taken hostage by workers who had blocked a major highway in Panduro, around 160 km (100 miles) from capital city La Paz.
MILAN, Nov 5 (Reuters) - Two Italians and a Canadian taken hostage in Libya have been freed overnight and were flown to Italy early on Saturday, the Italian foreign ministry said in a statement.
Ultimately, the whole situation shows the need for a permanent repeal of the debt limit so that it can no longer be taken hostage by anyone — regardless of which party is in charge.
Tens of thousands of people have fled Marawi since Tuesday, when militants went on the rampage seizing a school, a hospital, and a cathedral, where Christians were taken hostage, according to church leaders.
Speaking with the cadences of a stand-up comic, he recalled how a 36-year-old Australian missionary was taken hostage, raped and murdered, and how he reacted when he saw her body.
"  Reuters reported that Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Pompeo and other officials are "prisoners of their wrong illusions, prisoners of their past and have been taken hostage by corrupt pressure groups.
Ukraine said earlier it had detained a tanker for its alleged involvement in the seizure of three Ukrainian vessels by Russia in November, and Moscow threatened consequences if Russian citizens were "taken hostage".
Bouteflika famously negotiated with the terrorist known as Carlos the Jackal to free oil ministers who had been taken hostage in a 1975 attack on OPEC headquarters in Vienna and flown to Algiers.
In another corner of the conflict, Abouzeid tells the story of an Alawite perfume merchant whose wife and eldest daughter are murdered, and whose other children are taken hostage by a jihadist faction.
"The Yobe state government has no credible information yet as to whether any of the schoolgirls was taken hostage by the terrorists," said Abdullahi Bego, an aide to Yobe state governor Ibrahim Gaidam.
Four people were killed in the shootout Thursday evening at an intersection in Miramar: two robbery suspects who'd hijacked the truck; a UPS driver they had taken hostage; and a bystander, police said.
In a live statement broadcast on CNN Turk, Dundar said many military commanders have been taken hostage by the rebels but he declared that Turkey has "closed the chapter" on coups for good.
Christie seemed pretty miserable on that stage in Forth Worth, Texas, looking every bit like he had been taken hostage, which, yes, is a metaphor for what Trump has done to the Republican Party.
"Extremely pained to share that the terrorists have killed Tarushi, an Indian girl who was taken hostage in the terror attack in Dhaka," Swaraj tweeted, adding that she had spoken with the girl's father.
Remarkably, Maaloula was spared the atrocities endured elsewhere across Syria -- the rebels even freed several nuns taken hostage as part of a prisoner exchange involving 150 women and children held by the Syrian government.
It is the latest in Smith's long list of charitable acts which included contributing to the ransom that freed Canadian journalist Amanda Lindhout and Australian photographer Nigel Brennan, taken hostage in Somalia in 2008.
In 19923, when two EDS employees were taken hostage during a revolution in Iran, he organized and paid for a successful private mission called Operation Hotfoot to rescue the men and bring them home.
"Otto was taken hostage, kept as a prisoner for political purposes, used as a pawn and singled out for exceptionally harsh and brutal treatment by Kim Jong Un," Fred Warmbier said in a statement.
AL-HERDA, Egypt (Reuters) - Egyptian workers taken hostage in Libya this week over a financial dispute between Libyan contractors and their Egyptian partner have been freed, a relative of one of the hostages said.
Shortly after they arrived in the U.S., fifty-two American diplomats were taken hostage in Tehran, a crisis that lasted more than a year and created a surge of anti-Iranian sentiment in America.
Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham's (ISIS) media agency, Amaq, reported on 8 June that the two Chinese nationals who had been taken hostage in Pakistan's Balochistan province on 24 May were executed.
Five years after he was taken hostage in Afghanistan and four years after he appeared on a video saying he was being "treated humanely" by the Taliban, Canadian Colin Rutherford is a free man.
But Spitzer and the other families had also urged the Bavarian government for years to erect a comprehensive memorial and museum at the Olympic Park, where the Israeli team members were initially taken hostage.
Father Suganob was among dozens of civilians taken hostage on May 23 as gunmen from militant groups affiliated with the Islamic State began a citywide assault on Marawi, the Philippines' only predominantly Muslim city.
France&aposs Justice Ministry said 46-year-old Redoine Faid&aposs escape only took "a few minutes" and no one was injured or taken hostage at Reau Prison, located in the southeastern suburbs of Paris.
YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar's army sunk several boats carrying dozens of soldiers and police officers taken hostage by rebels in the restive western Rakhine state, the Arakan Army said on Sunday, adding that many had died.
Steven Floyd, a 16-year-veteran, was one of four people taken hostage Wednesday morning in a building at the James T. Vaughn Correctional Center in Smyrna, Delaware, officials announced at a Thursday news conference.
At a news conference in Belgrade, Serbia's capital, Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said the two embassy employees — identified as Sladjana Stankovic, a communications officer, and Jovica Stepic, a driver — had been taken hostage on Nov.
Lee is taken hostage on-air by Kyle (Jack O Connell), a desperate viewer who followed Lee s tip and bet all he had on a high-flying, now-crashing investment firm called Clear Capital.
Government officials are trying to secure the release of at least 170 civilians and 20 members of the security forces who were taken hostage by Taliban from three buses in the northern province of Kunduz.
Those Russians cunning enough to have infiltrated Kryjivka (and there are many, as the restaurant is apparently popular with Russian tourists) run the risk of getting 'taken hostage' and made to sing anthems in Ukrainian.
Yasuda, a freelance journalist, went to Syria in 2015 to report on a friend, Kenji Goto, also a Japanese freelancer, who had been taken hostage and killed by the Islamic State group earlier that year.
Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian and his family sued Iran on Monday, claiming he was taken hostage to influence the nuclear deal and providing new details about his treatment during his 85033 months in prison.
Boko Haram Storms Girls' School in Nigeria, Renewing Fears Dozens of girls are missing after the militants raided a school, raising fears they may have been taken hostage just like girls from Chibok in 2014.
In the 2013 movie "Olympus Has Fallen," he played a speaker of the House who becomes the acting president after the president and vice president are taken hostage during an attack on the White House.
The comment was reminiscent of his statement during the election campaign last year that he should have been the first to rape an Australian missionary who had been taken hostage by prison inmates and killed.
For most people, a family member taken hostage is just a concept — something that probability suggests they will never have to deal with beyond reading a headline or watching a compelling story on the news.
Abdul Raziq, the contentious police chief of Kandahar, who attended the gathering, said the government was "taken hostage by a few, like the dark days of Mullah Omar," once the supreme leader of the Taliban.
As though taken hostage, hungry passersby have no other choice but to accept to be convinced by the vendors of either business, who never cease to shout out the quality of their deep-fried balls.
In a photo uploaded to his blog September 20, the day before he was taken hostage, he wears an unbuttoned shirt, sunglasses and a smile, and sits with his hands on the wheel of his boat.
KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine on Thursday seized a Russian tanker for its alleged involvement in the capture of three Ukrainian navy vessels by Russia, prompting Moscow to warn of consequences if any Russian citizens were "taken hostage".
Leah Sharibu, 15, was taken hostage with more than 100 girls in the town of Dapchi in February, in the largest mass abduction since Boko Haram took 220 girls from the town of Chibok in 2014.
"Maduro has violated the constitution along with the other branches, it's all taken hostage," said Dilia Ortiz, an independent local merchant who welcomed American and international support for Guaidó , who swore himself in as president Wednesday.
On Thursday's episode of The Talk, 46-year-old Chen revealed that both her great-grandmother and aunt were kidnapped, taken hostage and threatened to be killed by bandits until her businessman grandfather paid the ransom.
And attacks on merchant ships in recent weeks by Somali gangs around the Gulf of Aden, the first since 2012, have raised fears of a return to hijackings and crews being taken hostage for long periods.
Authorities have been analyzing 48 samples of the cyber worm and the government has warned South Koreans how to protect their computers from being taken hostage, said Blue House Yoon Young-chan in a media briefing.
"Otto was taken hostage, kept as a prisoner for political purposes, used as a pawn and singled out for exceptionally harsh and brutal treatment by Kim Jong Un," Otto's father, Fred Warmbier, said in a statement.
Ms. Richmond's story, which is narrated by an "evangelist" for a hoodie company who is taken hostage by the taco truck owner, is a satire about an unhinged foodie's relentless pursuit of popularity on social media.
Deputy Interior Minister Rodolfo Illanes, 56, was beaten to death on Thursday after being taken hostage by miners who had blocked a major highway near Panduro, around 160 km (100 miles) from capital city La Paz.
Christians have been killed and taken hostage by the militants, a mix of local fighters from the Maute Group and other Islamist outfits, as well as foreigners who joined the cause under the Islamic State banner.
In September last year, RSP soldiers loyal to a former president, Blaise Compaore - who is not related to the interior minister - mounted a six-day putsch attempt in which members of the cabinet were taken hostage.
Image 2 of 2 PARIS – The helicopter pilot who was taken hostage in the escape from prison by one of France&aposs most notorious criminals said the convict&aposs accomplices beat and threatened him during his kidnapping.
Sadly, shortly after his rise to power through the Iranian revolution, we watched in horror as our diplomats were taken hostage for 444 days in what was once one of our strongest allies in the Middle East.
Hamill, 36, was one of five missionaries taken hostage and murdered by a gang of inmates during a 1989 uprising in at the jail in the center of Davao City, where Détente was mayor at the time.
CAIRO — A prominent Dutch photojournalist who had once been taken hostage by Islamist extremists in Syria was fatally shot on Sunday by an Islamic State sniper in the coastal city of Surt, a Libyan government spokesman said.
The model, whom the State Police in Italy did not identify, was drugged, handcuffed and locked in a travel bag after being taken hostage in Milan on July 11, according to a statement issued by the authorities.
Some of the more than three dozen officials and police officers taken hostage last weekend were later released, but others were still being held in Dong Tam on Friday, according to rights activists and state news outlets.
It was 2016, and Parwaneh had been taken hostage after she refused to marry the man to whom her father had promised her — hardly surprising given he was much older than her and already had one wife.
The film centered on a twisted Cinderella concept: Franny is a wide-eyed optimist taking care of her helpless family when she winds up taken hostage by a bank robber — her rogue Prince Charming — and is whisked away.
This data can be accessed publicly, and during the height of the Somali piracy crisis in 2009, ships would switch off their transponders to avoid detection by gangs in order to protect their crews from being taken hostage.
"It seems President Trump has been taken hostage by Saudi Arabia and a few producers when they claimed they can replace 2.5 million barrels per day of Iranian exports, encouraging him to take action against Iran," Ardebili said.
ANKARA (Reuters) - Ten Turkish sailors were taken hostage by armed pirates who attacked a Turkish-flagged cargo ship off the coast of Nigeria, the vessel's owner said on Tuesday, adding that another eight sailors were left safely aboard.
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey's chief of military staff was among people taken hostage at the military headquarters in Ankara on Friday, the state-run Anadolu Agency reported, while another broadcaster, CNN Turk said Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan was safe.
The million or more civilians left in the city face a bleak choice: stay, and risk being taken hostage or caught up in the combat; go, and risk sniper attacks, roadside bombs and life in hardscrabble aid camps.
He personally called the mother of Kayla Mueller, an American aid worker who was taken hostage and killed in Syria, with directions to his office, where she asked for help in finding out what happened to her daughter.
Though the kiss itself isn't romantic — in typical "Star Trek" fashion, the Enterprise's crew is taken hostage by aliens — it still represents a huge shift in the TV landscape, and the episode, "Plato's Stepchildren," will be remembered forever.
Later that year, he visited Iraq, and is credited with helping negotiate the release of 41 Japanese citizens who had been taken hostage by Saddam Hussein's government in the months before the first Persian Gulf War of 1991.
"My husband is innocent," said Qu. Six families shared their experiences on trying to deal with a relative taken hostage in Iran, with diplomats often advising them to stay silent so as not to harm the chance of release.
In this new trailer for Money Monster — a film directed by Jodie Foster — George Clooney plays Lee Gates, a Wall Street whiz and TV personality who gets taken hostage live on his show by an angry investor (Jack O'Connell).
LOS ANGELES – "I just shot at a cop," the man with the gun and blood dripping from a bullet wound in his left arm told one of dozens of people he&aposd taken hostage inside a Los Angeles supermarket.
In 2012, Ben Affleck, Grant Heslov and George Clooney released the film "Argo," loosely based on the rescuing of six Americans not taken hostage but who made it out thanks to a bold plan  from Canada and the CIA.
But citizens of those countries are not taken hostage in disproportionate numbers because taking hostages is risky and not as profitable as other ventures for terrorist groups, such a narcotics, black market oil and arms sales, and human trafficking.
The eldest, Yonatan "Yoni" Netanyahu, became a national hero after he was killed in 1976leading an assault team that stormed Entebbe Airport in Ugandato rescue Israelis and other airline passengers taken hostage by radical Palestinian and West German hijackers.
When one of the co-founders arrived to break the news at the company's office in Pune, a city near Mumbai, he was taken hostage by angry employees who demanded immediate payment of severance packages, technology news site MediaNama reported.
"I'm proud to have served my country," said Mr. Cooke, a retired Foreign Service officer with the State Department who was working in the United States Embassy in Tehran when he and 51 other Americans were taken hostage in November 1979.
Captive — Netflix's newest addition to the wave of true-crime entertainment it helped popularize with smash hit Making A Murderer — is a harrowing series about a real-life nightmare scenario: being taken hostage and not knowing what will happen next.
"We are going to do all that is necessary to defend our territory, our assets, our shipping lanes and make sure that the energy security of the world is not taken hostage by any regime," the Saudi oil minister told CNN.
In the latest sign of worsening violence in Mali, gunmen abducted a Swiss missionary from her home in Timbuktu this week nearly four years after she was taken hostage as militants seized major urban centers with the help of Tuareg rebels.
The call came as a study published by TrustLaw, a unit of the Thomson Reuters Foundation, revealed a gap in international laws to protect citizens taken hostage by states in peacetime, with the situation more complex for those with dual citizenship.
The army's reluctance to intervene was in part explained by the threat posed by the gangs responsible for so much of Mexico's fuel theft — just days before a group of soldiers was taken hostage by residents of a nearby town.
While Asian stock markets were taken hostage by the sell-off on fears faster rate hikes could hit global growth, short-term interest rates held steady or even dipped as investors saw an opportunity to trade the divergence in rates.
One such ship, the MRS Corvus, is taken hostage while working in a rival company's territory, prompting the crew of the MRS Hyacinth to break regs and mine an unauthorized asteroid in hopes of paying off the ransom by themselves.
The 17 employees of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge were relocated by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, which received "nonspecific" threats about its workers being taken hostage, said Jason Holm, a spokesman for the agency, which runs the refuge.
The eldest, Yonatan "Yoni" Netanyahu, became a national hero after he was killed in 1976leading an assault team that stormed Entebbe Airport in Uganda to rescue Israelis and other airline passengers taken hostage by radical Palestinian and West German hijackers.
JAKARTA, June 24 (Reuters) - Seven Indonesian sailors have been taken hostage in the Sulu Sea in the southern Philippines, Indonesia's foreign minister said on Friday, the latest in a string of abductions in the waters between the two Southeast Asian neighbours.
We won't spoil it here, but the new storyline — a clever addition that nonetheless offers its share of Snickety misfortune — features special guest stars Will Arnett and Cobie Smulders as a pair of spies who've been taken hostage in Peru.
Iran has not acknowledged that it was holding Levinson, though the State Department has claimed Levinson was taken hostage by the Iranian regime, according to AP.On Sunday, Iran admitted for the first time that it had an open case against Levinson.
ROME, March 9 (Reuters) - Six inmates were killed in a prison riot in Italy and guards were taken hostage at another jail, as unrest spread in prisons across the country over measures to contain the coronavirus, including restrictions on visits.
Most of the inmates in the section have been linked to the Islamic State, and the terrorist group's media arm claimed responsibility for the uprising, posting images it said showed guards that the detainees had taken hostage and then killed.
"We saw Labour in the raw, exposed for what it has sadly become: a party taken hostage by a clique of hard-left extremist infiltrators, people who despise Britain's values and talk down our country," Hammond told Conservative Party activists.
London (CNN)John Cantlie, a British journalist who was taken hostage in Syria in 2012 and appeared in a number of ISIS propaganda videos during his time in captivity, is believed to be alive, UK Security Minister Ben Wallace said Tuesday.
The eldest, Yonatan "Yoni" Netanyahu, became a national hero after he was killed in 1976 leading an assault team that stormed Entebbe Airport in Uganda to rescue Israelis and other airline passengers taken hostage by radical Palestinian and West German hijackers.
The Russian scientist (Alec Utgoff) was introduced to viewers after he was taken hostage by Joyce Beyers (Winona Ryder) and Jim Hopper (David Harbour) in an attempt to figure out what the Russians were doing beneath Hawkins — and learn how to stop it.
At least 20 people died and others were taken hostage when Islamist gunmen stormed a hotel in the capital city of Burkina Faso on Friday, a hospital director said, an attack for which al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) claimed responsibility.
BEIJING (Reuters) - China stepped up its war of words with Taiwan on Monday after Taipei freed 20 suspects in a telecom fraud case linked to China, with state media accusing Taiwan of tolerating crime and being taken hostage by anti-Chinese forces.
The number of seafarers taken hostage in the Gulf of Guineau - the region where the attack took place - rose from 52 in 2016 to 75 last year, said Jake Longworth, senior analyst at EOS Risk Group, in a report published in July.
Still, Cory has remained silent, preferring to stand behind the administration's feeble attempts to justify paying ransom for Americans taken hostage by Iran and its false claims to have closed off all avenues for the genocidal Iranian regime to obtain nuclear weapons. Sen.
Six Red Cross staff were killed and two are believed to have been taken hostage by suspected Islamic State group militants in northern Afghanistan on Wednesday, the latest in a series of attacks on the international aid group by Afghan Islamist groups.
The most notable of those deals came in April, when Qatar paid a huge ransom to free 26 members of a Qatari falcon-hunting party, including members of the royal family, who had been taken hostage by Iran-backed militiamen in Iraq.
"If we are continuing to be taken hostage by this situation, the flourishing UK auto industry could come back to the situation it was at 20-25 years ago," said Roberto Vavassori, a management board member at Brembo and president of CLEPA.
Kidnappers freed on Monday the last of 80-odd children taken hostage last week in a raid on a school in the city of Bamenda - a center of the country's troubled English-speaking region where separatists are fighting to form a breakaway republic.
This accusation, which is also levelled at rich Saudis, is unproven, though the Financial Times reports that Qatar paid $1bn to Iran and an al-Qaeda affiliate for the release of Qatari royals who were taken hostage while on a falcon-hunting trip to Iraq.
But when they're talking about your life — and it is my life because sure, I could go live outside the country, but I would always feel like an expat, whether or not I had citizenship — you feel a little like you've been taken hostage.
A time of terror The first extreme came when 8-year-old Velez and his grandparents were taken hostage by FARC, a guerrilla group that engaged in a bloody conflict with the Colombian government that lasted 53 years and killed more than 220,000 people.
BEIJING, April 18 (Reuters) - China on Monday stepped up its war of words with Taiwan after Taipei freed 20 suspects in a telecom fraud case linked to China, with state media accusing Taiwan of tolerating crime and being taken hostage by anti-Chinese forces.
It's disconnected from the plot-heavy machinations involving the war and many of the events that play out feel repetitive, especially Claire once again pretending to be a British woman taken hostage in order to get everyone in her charge out of a tight situation.
The movie—called Game Over, Man—was written by Holm and stars the trio as "three friends [who] are on the verge of getting their video game financed when their benefactor is taken hostage by terrorists" at a Los Angeles hotel, according to Netflix.
Well, and when you look at things like spam, which can contain an awful lot of malware, and these botnets, these organized networks of bots, which are basically computer robots, your computer can be taken hostage by somebody and you don't even know what's happening.
The stunning surrender — with Mexican forces badly outmatched, taken hostage by outlaws and forced to let loose a prominent suspect in their custody — began with a siege on the city of Culiacán on Thursday by members of the Sinaloa Cartel, once headed by El Chapo.
He said that if Iran strikes any Americans or American assets, the US has targeted 52 Iranian sites -- a reference to the number of Americans taken hostage in the 1979 revolution -- "some at a very high level & important to Iran & the Iranian culture," he wrote.
Former US Ambassador John Limbert, who was among dozens of Americans taken hostage by Iranian students in 1979, on Monday said he wants "nothing to do" with President Donald Trump&aposs "posturing" toward Iran following the strike that killed Iran&aposs top general last week.
She later claimed in recordings released to the media that she'd developed an affinity for the group mission while taken hostage, but then renounced her captors after she was arrested 19 months later and charged for her role in a bank robbery carried out by its members.
During the fall of the Maya civilization over 1,000 years ago, kings were killed in public, captives were taken hostage, and in one notably violent event in the city of Aguateca, Maya fled their homes during a surprise assault, without time to even grab their belongings.
In an interview with ABC on Friday morning, Carl and Marsha Mueller — whose daughter Kayla Mueller was taken hostage in August 85033 — said President Obama never followed through on a promise to make a donation to a foundation set up in their daughter's name, called Kayla's Hands.
In theaters May 25, the film is a thriller in which Lee Gates, an over-the-top TV personality and Wall Street guru (played by George Clooney), and his production team are taken hostage during a live broadcast by an average Joe named Kyle (Jack O'Connell).
Nick, played by Mr. Bryant, is an American banker taken hostage in Pakistan, and Bashir, acted by Mr. Kaisi, is his captor, the right-hand man of a radical Muslim cleric, Imam Saleem, who wields de facto power in the Bahawalpur region of Punjab, Pakistan's largest province.
The elite presidential guard was disbanded after members loyal to former president Blaise Compaore mounted a six-day coup against Burkina Faso's transitional government last September in which members of the cabinet were taken hostage, before handing power back to the government under heavy international pressure.
Rouhani called attention on Twitter to the 290 people killed when a U.S. Navy cruiser shot down a civilian plane in 1988 after Trump said the U.S. has targeted 52 sites to strike in Iran for the 52 U.S. citizens taken hostage by Iran in 1979.
Most Americans are aware of Iran's crimes against this country, including the 52 Americans taken hostage in 1979; the 241 Marines killed in the 1983 bombing of their barracks in Lebanon; and the 1996 bombing of the Air Force quarters in Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia.
MODEL TAKEN HOSTAGE BY ABUSIVE BOYFRIEND SAVES HERSELF USING SELFIE OF BADLY BEATEN FACE But when a downpour unfashionably soaked an outdoor Dior show last week in Chantilly, France, the shaman was back on the payroll for Louis Vuitton's fashion show at the Fondation Maeght, near Antibes, this week.
Though the kiss itself isn't romantic — in typical "Star Trek" fashion, the Enterprise's crew is taken hostage by aliens and the two were forced to kiss — it stillrepresents a huge shift in the TV landscape, wrote The Hollywood Reporter, and the episode, "Plato's Stepchildren," will be remembered forever.
"I said, 'Uh-oh, here we go again,'" said Colonel Roeder, who was among more than 50 Americans who were taken hostage at the United States Embassy in Tehran in 1979, in a crisis that ruptured relations and set off 40 years of intense hostilities between Washington and Tehran.
The DRC Ministry of Health reports a mix of success from community outreach efforts and continued episodes of violence, such as when a team of 3 civil protection agents and 1 epidemiologist were taken hostage by rebels this week at the village of Matembo, which is between Beni and Butembo.
At the end of the day, some other must-pass legislation was taken hostage by the Senate over the bathroom issue and one other property-tax election issue -- and now that the session has ended without action on those bills, it's likely Governor Greg Abbott will call them back for more.
What makes this so heinous is that Trump has taken hostage the lives and livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of young people so that he won't have to to do any of the hard work of actually solving the problem, such as passing replacement legislation before ending their work permits.
While the president of the National Federation of French Cinemas last week said the festival had been "taken hostage" by Netflix, the Society of Dramatic Authors and Composers said in a statement that the Cannes flap was just a distraction from the "inertia" that had led to the breakdown of talks.
In a tweet Saturday night, Trump said that if Iran strikes any Americans or American assets, the United States has targeted 52 Iranian sites -- a reference to the number of Americans taken hostage in the 1979 revolution -- "some at a very high level & important to Iran & the Iranian culture," he wrote.
Apple Podcasts | Pocket Casts | Spotify The Hyacinth Disaster, Independent The crew of a spaceship called the MRS Hyacinth sets off to a remote asteroid in the asteroid belt to try and pay off a ransom of a sister ship, the MRS Corvus, which was taken hostage by a rival space mining corporation.
" Fred said in a statement provided to PEOPLE, "Otto was taken hostage, kept as a prisoner for political purposes, used as a pawn and singled out for exceptionally harsh and brutal treatment by Kim Jong Un. Kim and his regime have portrayed themselves as innocent, while they intentionally destroyed our son's life.
Last year, the Obama administration overhauled efforts to free Americans held overseas, creating the Hostage Recovery Fusion Cell, led by the F.B.I. It took that step after facing intense criticism for failing to do enough to save the Americans who were taken hostage in Syria and later killed by the Islamic State.
The whole creepy-bordering-on-obscene spectacle lasted about 11 minutes: Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao looks like she's been taken hostage, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis (the only one who didn't essentially swear loyalty to Trump) is clearly pissed, and White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus sounds desperate to keep his job (reportedly, he is).
General Akar, who was taken hostage by rogue officers during the failed coup in July 2016, is scheduled to retire in 2019, a critical year because the changes approved in the referendum will allow the winner of the 2019 presidential election to assume full control of the government, ending the current parliamentary political system.
And so, it&aposs really important at time work that this time when we go back in forth with the politics of this moment that we understand these are small children who have been taken hostage by this administration in order to put forth a political agenda that incarcerates families at greater length in worse conditions.
The impact of that surge on the Muslim-majority valley in the Himalayas is clear, according to interviews with Indian officials, rights groups and the families of two victims of the conflict mentioned in a United Nations report this month: a school principal who died in police custody and a 12-year-old boy killed after being taken hostage by militants.
Red Cross staff killed by suspected ISIS militants in Afghan convoy attack Red Cross staff killed by suspected ISIS militants in Afghan convoy attack Six Red Cross staff were killed and two are believed to have been taken hostage by suspected Islamic State group militants in northern Afghanistan on Wednesday, the latest in a series of attacks on the international aid group by Afghan Islamist groups.
While, at first glance, it might seem I have nothing in common with this young girl, and indeed I have absolutely no idea what it is like to flee my home under unfathomably abusive conditions and travel to a foreign country in search of amnesty only to be taken hostage and denied a private, personal medical procedure while a bunch of white men in suits preach to me about Jesus.

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