Tag: Hostage

Ecuador ‘civil war’ crisis deepens as 130 prison guards are held hostage by inmates across five jails with some tortured and shot while civilians take up arms to defend themselves with violence erupting on the streets

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More than 130 prison guards and other staff are being held hostage by inmates in at least five prisons around Ecuador, which is descending into civil war amid a horrific escalation in gang violence.

Twisted videos circulating on social media showed how masked thugs delighted in subjecting prison staff to extreme violence, including being shot and hanging.

Terrified citizens meanwhile are resorting to taking up arms in an attempt to defend themselves, according to various reports on social media, as

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Biden appears to call for Israel to DELAY its invasion of Gaza to allow more Americans to be freed – before White House is forced to backtrack: IDF says hostage release is a tactic ‘right out of the Hamas playbook’ as it prepares for ground war

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The White House was scrambling to backtrack on Friday night after President Joe Biden, asked whether he was now pushing Israel to delay its invasion of Gaza for the sake of the hostages, replied: ‘Yes’.

Two Americans were released by Hamas on Friday, after being kidnapped on October 7 and held in Gaza for 13 days. A further 200 hostages are believed to remain in Hamas captivity.

Israel’s military has been given the green light to invade, and on Thursday

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Hamas invaders snatch young and old off the street and take them hostage as war with Israel takes chilling new turn and death toll nears 300

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Hamas gunmen appear to be snatching hostages off the streets of Israel after crossing into the territory on Saturday as the war takes a darker turn and the death toll approaches 300 after less than one day.

Horrifying new footage emerging this afternoon showed women being marched into vehicles full of male fighters, bloodied and bruised, often with their hands bound behind their backs.

Earlier pictures showed Israeli pensioners captured in Israel and taken into the Gaza Strip on golf

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Couple, 76, robbed of $150K in cryptocurrency by hostage takers who threatened to cut off man’s body parts

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Three alleged kidnappers held a 76-year-old couple hostage in their North Carolina home and stole more than $156,000 in cryptocurrency while threatening to cut off the husband’s genitalia and rape the wife, a newly unsealed federal criminal complaint said this week. 

The suspects came to the couple’s Durham, North Carolina, residence around 7:30 in the morning on April 12, claiming they were construction workers inspecting pipes, the Thursday complaint said. 

After knocking on the door a second time, the suspects,

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Kevin McCarthy’s Latest Hostage Crisis

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Dave Chappelle und Chris Rock sprengen Will Smiths „Hostage Video“-Entschuldigung

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Die berühmten Comedians Dave Chappelle und Chris Rock schlugen den in Ungnade gefallenen Schauspieler Will Smith, als sie gemeinsam in Großbritannien wegen des Angriffs des Schauspielers auf Rock während der diesjährigen Oscar-Verleihung auftraten.

„Scheiß auf dein Geiselvideo“, sagte Rock während eines Teils seiner Stand-up-Routine in Bezug auf die Entschuldigung, die Smith für den Vorfall abgegeben hatte. „Ja, das tut verdammt weh. Er spielte Ali. Ich kann nicht einmal Floyd Mayweather spielen.“

Auf Rock folgte Chappelle, der den Vorfall ebenfalls kommentierte

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Autocrats, Not Terrorists, Are Increasingly Taking Americans Hostage

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Last spring, Danny Fenster decided to return home from Myanmar for a family visit. Fenster, a thirty-seven-year-old journalist and a Detroit native, had moved to the country in 2019 to take a job as an editor at a local news outlet. On his way to the Yangon airport on the morning of May 24th, Fenster saw trucks full of soldiers and a police checkpoint on the road to the terminal. Four months earlier, the country’s military had seized power from

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Texas Synagogue Hostage Crisis: Fallstudie zum Herunterspielen von Antisemitismus

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Vorsicht bei der Motivzuweisung scheint nur bei bestimmten politisch unbequemen Handlungen zu gelten.




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