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Hamas Hands Over Israeli Hostages To Red Cross - Gaza

Newly released Israeli hostage Omar Shem Tov kisses the head of a Hamas fighter shortly after her release in Nussirat in the central Gaza Strip, February 22, 2025. Tov, who was kidnapped on October 7 from the Nava music festival in southern Israel, waved and kissed the crowd before kissing two of her Hamas captors on the heads wrapped in keffiyehs. Photo by Saeed Jaras/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Hamas Hands Over Israeli Hostages To Red Cross - Gaza

Newly released Israeli hostage Omar Shem Tov kisses the head of a Hamas fighter shortly after her release in Nussirat in the central Gaza Strip, February 22, 2025. Tov, who was kidnapped on October 7 from the Nava music festival in southern Israel, waved and kissed the crowd before kissing two of her Hamas captors on the heads wrapped in keffiyehs. Photo by Saeed Jaras/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Hamas Hands Over Israeli Hostages To Red Cross - Gaza

Newly released Israeli hostage Omar Shem Tov kisses the head of a Hamas fighter shortly after her release in Nussirat in the central Gaza Strip, February 22, 2025. Tov, who was kidnapped on October 7 from the Nava music festival in southern Israel, waved and kissed the crowd before kissing two of her Hamas captors on the heads wrapped in keffiyehs. Photo by Saeed Jaras/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Joe Biden Arrives At White House - Washington

US President Joe Biden speaks to members of the media on the South Lawn of the White House after arriving on Marine One in Washington, DC, US, on Monday, Sept. 2, 2024. Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will meet with the US hostage deal negotiating team after Israel recovered the bodies of six hostages who it said had been killed by their Hamas captors in Gaza. Photo by Ting Shen/Pool/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Joe Biden Arrives At White House - Washington

US President Joe Biden speaks to members of the media on the South Lawn of the White House after arriving on Marine One in Washington, DC, US, on Monday, Sept. 2, 2024. Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will meet with the US hostage deal negotiating team after Israel recovered the bodies of six hostages who it said had been killed by their Hamas captors in Gaza. Photo by Ting Shen/Pool/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Joe Biden Arrives At White House - Washington

US President Joe Biden walks off the stairs of Marine One after arriving on the South Lawn at the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Monday, Sept. 2, 2024. Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will meet with the US hostage deal negotiating team after Israel recovered the bodies of six hostages who it said had been killed by their Hamas captors in Gaza. Photo by Ting Shen/Pool/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Joe Biden Arrives At White House - Washington

Marine One, carrying US President Joe Biden, arrives on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Monday, Sept. 2, 2024. Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will meet with the US hostage deal negotiating team after Israel recovered the bodies of six hostages who it said had been killed by their Hamas captors in Gaza. Photo by Ting Shen/Pool/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Joe Biden Arrives At White House - Washington

US President Joe Biden walks on the South Lawn of the White House after arriving on Marine One in Washington, DC, US, on Monday, Sept. 2, 2024. Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will meet with the US hostage deal negotiating team after Israel recovered the bodies of six hostages who it said had been killed by their Hamas captors in Gaza. Photo by Ting Shen/Pool/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Joe Biden Arrives At White House - Washington

US President Joe Biden walks on the South Lawn of the White House after arriving on Marine One in Washington, DC, US, on Monday, Sept. 2, 2024. Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will meet with the US hostage deal negotiating team after Israel recovered the bodies of six hostages who it said had been killed by their Hamas captors in Gaza. Photo by Ting Shen/Pool/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Joe Biden Arrives At White House - Washington

US President Joe Biden speaks to members of the media on the South Lawn of the White House after arriving on Marine One in Washington, DC, US, on Monday, Sept. 2, 2024. Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will meet with the US hostage deal negotiating team after Israel recovered the bodies of six hostages who it said had been killed by their Hamas captors in Gaza. Photo by Ting Shen/Pool/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Joe Biden Arrives At White House - Washington

US President Joe Biden speaks to members of the media on the South Lawn of the White House after arriving on Marine One in Washington, DC, US, on Monday, Sept. 2, 2024. Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will meet with the US hostage deal negotiating team after Israel recovered the bodies of six hostages who it said had been killed by their Hamas captors in Gaza. Photo by Ting Shen/Pool/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Joe Biden Arrives At White House - Washington

US President Joe Biden speaks to members of the media on the South Lawn of the White House after arriving on Marine One in Washington, DC, US, on Monday, Sept. 2, 2024. Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will meet with the US hostage deal negotiating team after Israel recovered the bodies of six hostages who it said had been killed by their Hamas captors in Gaza. Photo by Ting Shen/Pool/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Joe Biden Arrives At White House - Washington

US President Joe Biden speaks to members of the media on the South Lawn of the White House after arriving on Marine One in Washington, DC, US, on Monday, Sept. 2, 2024. Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will meet with the US hostage deal negotiating team after Israel recovered the bodies of six hostages who it said had been killed by their Hamas captors in Gaza. Photo by Ting Shen/Pool/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Joe Biden Arrives At White House - Washington

US President Joe Biden speaks to members of the media on the South Lawn of the White House after arriving on Marine One in Washington, DC, US, on Monday, Sept. 2, 2024. Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will meet with the US hostage deal negotiating team after Israel recovered the bodies of six hostages who it said had been killed by their Hamas captors in Gaza. Photo by Ting Shen/Pool/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Joe Biden Arrives At White House - Washington

US President Joe Biden speaks to members of the media on the South Lawn of the White House after arriving on Marine One in Washington, DC, US, on Monday, Sept. 2, 2024. Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will meet with the US hostage deal negotiating team after Israel recovered the bodies of six hostages who it said had been killed by their Hamas captors in Gaza. Photo by Ting Shen/Pool/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Joe Biden Arrives At White House - Washington

US President Joe Biden speaks to members of the media on the South Lawn of the White House after arriving on Marine One in Washington, DC, US, on Monday, Sept. 2, 2024. Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will meet with the US hostage deal negotiating team after Israel recovered the bodies of six hostages who it said had been killed by their Hamas captors in Gaza. Photo by Ting Shen/Pool/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Families elated after Taliban free all South Korean hostages

SEOUL, South Korea - Family members of the South Korean hostages seized by the Taliban in Afghanistan are elated after the last seven hostages were released in Ghazni, Afghanistan on Aug. 30. Twenty-three South Korean Christian aid workers were seized by Taliban militants on July 19 and two men were killed by their captors.

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Algeria hostage crisis

IN AMENAS, Algeria - Photo taken secretly on Jan. 16, 2013, by one of the Algerians held hostage at a gas plant in In Amenas shows Algerian workers standing outside an accommodation unit of the plant. The man in camouflage is one of the captors. Dozens of people, including many foreign nationals, died later in the hostage crisis.

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Algeria hostage crisis

IN AMENAS, Algeria - Photo taken secretly on Jan. 16, 2013, by one of the Algerians held hostage at a gas plant in In Amenas shows Algerian workers standing outside an accommodation unit of the plant. The man in camouflage is one of the captors. Dozens of people, including many foreign nationals, died later in the hostage crisis.

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Japanese man taken hostage by guerrillas in Colombia

BOGOTA, Colombia - Photographed on June 22, 2010, is the workplace in southwestern Colombia of a Japanese horticulturalist, Masao Tsutsui, who reportedly was kidnapped by left-wing guerillas in March. The captors, called the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, are demanding ransom for the immigrant from Japan, who went missing after leaving the place, according to sources.

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(2)3 abducted by pirates not abused, captors made no demands

PENANG, Malaysia - Nobuo Inoue (L), captain of Japan's tugboat Idaten, the boat's chief engineer Shunji Kuroda (C) and Kanji Kondo, president of the shipping company that owns the boat, speak to reporters in Penang on March 21 after Inoue, Kuroda and third engineer Edgardo Sadang of the Philippines were released by pirates.

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(1)3 abducted by pirates not abused, captors made no demands

PENANG, Malaysia - Edgardo Sadang of the Philippines, one of three crew members of Japan's tugboat Idaten who was found safe March 20 after being abducted by pirates in the Malacca Strait, smiles during a press conference in Penang on March 21.

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Kidnappers extend deadline for S. Korean hostage beheading

SEOUL, South Korea - A female member of a civic group prays for the safety of Kim Sun Il, kidnapped by militants in Iraq, at a rally near the Blue House presidential palace in Seoul on June 22. Yonhap News Agency quoted an Arabic television network as reporting that Kim's captors extended the deadline for beheading him.

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2 released Japanese captives arrive in Japan

NARITA, Japan - Nobutaka Watanabe, a human rights activist released April 17 by their armed Iraqi captors after three days in captivity, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on April 20.

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2 French hostages escape from Muslim rebels

MANILA, Philippines - Two French journalists, Roland Madura (L) and Jean-Jacques Le Garrec (C), speak of their escape from Muslim rebel captors on the southern Philippine island of Jolo at a news conference at the Malacanang presidential palace in Manila on Sept. 20. Philippine President Joseph Estrada sits beside them.

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Nigerian president meets train attack victims freed by gunmen

STORY: Nigerian president meets train attack victims freed by gunmen DATELINE: Oct. 7, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:24 LOCATION: Abuja CATEGORY: POLITICS/OTHERS SHOTLIST: 1. various of President Muhammadu Buhari meeting with rescued kidnap victims 2. various of the officials present 3. various of the rescued victims 4. various of a military official briefing the president 5. various of file footage of the train attacked by Boko Haram terrorists STORYLINE: Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday visited a military hospital in the northern state of Kaduna to meet with 23 victims of the March 28 Abuja-Kaduna train attack who were freed by their captors on Wednesday. The victims who regained their freedom Wednesday were the last set to be freed by Boko Haram, an extremist group that earlier claimed responsibility for the attack. The freedom came following a series of intense operations by the military, six months after the unfortunate attack. According to a statement by the State House, Buhari made the impromp

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(1)3 abducted by pirates not abused, captors made no demands

PENANG, Malaysia - Edgardo Sadang of the Philippines, one of three crew members of Japan's tugboat Idaten who was found safe March 20 after being abducted by pirates in the Malacca Strait, smiles during a press conference in Penang on March 21. (Kyodo)

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(2)3 abducted by pirates not abused, captors made no demands

PENANG, Malaysia - Nobuo Inoue (L), captain of Japan's tugboat Idaten, the boat's chief engineer Shunji Kuroda (C) and Kanji Kondo, president of the shipping company that owns the boat, speak to reporters in Penang on March 21 after Inoue, Kuroda and third engineer Edgardo Sadang of the Philippines were released by pirates. (Kyodo)

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Lost : Season 3 (2006)

Evangeline Lilly & Josh Holloway Characters: Kate Austen & James 'Sawyer' Ford Television: Lost : Season 3 (TV-SERIE) Usa 2004-2010, Director: Jeffrey Lieber & J.J. Abrams 04 October 2006 LOST - 'Every Man for Himself' - Sawyer discovers just how far his captors will go to thwart any plans of escape he and Kate might have, and Jack is called upon to scrub up in order to save the life of one of 'The Others.' Meanwhile, Desmond's behavior begins to perplex the survivors when he starts construction on an unknown device, on 'Lost,' (ABC/MARIO PEREZ) EVANGELINE LILLY, JOSH HOLLOWAY Date: 04 October 2006

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Lost : Season 3 (2006)

Elizabeth Mitchell Characters: Juliet Burke Television: Lost : Season 3 (TV-SERIE) Usa 2004-2010, Director: Jeffrey Lieber & J.J. Abrams 04 October 2006 LOST - 'Every Man for Himself' - Sawyer discovers just how far his captors will go to thwart any plans of escape he and Kate might have, and Jack is called upon to scrub up in order to save the life of one of 'The Others.' Meanwhile, Desmond's behavior begins to perplex the survivors when he starts construction on an unknown device, on Lost. (ABC/MARIO PEREZ) ELIZABETH MITCHELL Date: 04 October 2006

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Chinese prisoners

Chinese prisoners, bound together with ropes, are led away by their Japanese captors during the Battle of Shanghai. Date: November 1937

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X-MEN: THE LAST STAND

X-MEN: THE LAST STAND [US 2006] Mystique's (Rebecca Romijn) high-flying acrobatics shock her FBI captors. Date: 2006

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MANILA-Finish_Hostage

9Sept2000//Finnish hostages (from right) Marc Vahanen Risto and Johan Franti Sepo accounts their tragic endeavor at the Edwin Andrews Airbase in Zamboanga City, Philippines after having been released by their Abu Sayyaf captors in Sulu province, Philippines. Sepo and Risto were turned over to their envoy Raimo Anttola (left). Photo by Charlie Saceda

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Mediator withdraws from efforts to free abducted Japanese journalist

Undated photo shows Japanese freelance journalist Jumpei Yasuda, who went missing in Syria in 2015. A Syrian man who claims to be the mediator negotiating the release of the abducted journalist said in June 2016 that he has decided to cease his involvement in the case, saying the Japanese government has not responded to the captors' demands. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-U.S. Ambassador says U.S. warning saved Kim Dae Jung's life

Former U.S. Ambassador to South Korea Donald Gregg speaks in Seoul on May 19, 2015. He said a U.S. warning saved the life of Kim Dae Jung, a South Korean opposition leader who later became the president of the country, when he was abducted by the Korean Central Intelligence Agency (KCIA) in 1973. Following the U.S. warning, an airplane sent by the South Korean government signaled the captors holding Kim on a boat at sea not to kill him, according to Gregg, Central Intelligence Agency station chief in Seoul at the time of the abduction. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Mother of Japanese hostage pleads for son's release

Junko Ishido, mother of Japanese journalist Kenji Goto taken hostage by a group believed to be Islamic State militants, speaks to reporters in Tokyo on Jan. 28, 2015, as a deadline set by his captors approaches. Ishido pleaded for her son's release saying, "I wish he could set foot in his homeland (again)." (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan seeks cooperation of Jordan over hostage crisis

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga attends a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 27, 2015. He reiterated that Japan is seeking cooperation from Jordan to achieve the release of a Japanese man held by captors believed to be Islamic State militants. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan, Jordan cooperating on hostage crisis

Yasuhide Nakayama, a senior Japanese diplomat overseeing the task force to deal with the hostage crisis meets with reporters in Amman on Jan. 26, 2015. He said the governments of Japan and Jordan are cooperating in seeking the release of a Japanese man and a Jordanian military pilot held by captors believed to be Islamic State militants. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Families elated after Taliban free all South Korean hostages

SEOUL, South Korea - Family members of the South Korean hostages seized by the Taliban in Afghanistan are elated after the last seven hostages were released in Ghazni, Afghanistan on Aug. 30. Twenty-three South Korean Christian aid workers were seized by Taliban militants on July 19 and two men were killed by their captors. (Kyodo)

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2 released Japanese captives arrive in Japan

NARITA, Japan - Nobutaka Watanabe, a human rights activist released April 17 by their armed Iraqi captors after three days in captivity, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on April 20. (Kyodo)

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2 French hostages escape from Muslim rebels

MANILA, Philippines - Two French journalists, Roland Madura (L) and Jean-Jacques Le Garrec (C), speak of their escape from Muslim rebel captors on the southern Philippine island of Jolo at a news conference at the Malacanang presidential palace in Manila on Sept. 20. Philippine President Joseph Estrada sits beside them.

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Japanese man taken hostage by guerrillas in Colombia

BOGOTA, Colombia - Photographed on June 22, 2010, is the workplace in southwestern Colombia of a Japanese horticulturalist, Masao Tsutsui, who reportedly was kidnapped by left-wing guerillas in March. The captors, called the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, are demanding ransom for the immigrant from Japan, who went missing after leaving the place, according to sources. (Kyodo)

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Kidnappers extend deadline for S. Korean hostage beheading

SEOUL, South Korea - A female member of a civic group prays for the safety of Kim Sun Il, kidnapped by militants in Iraq, at a rally near the Blue House presidential palace in Seoul on June 22. Yonhap News Agency quoted an Arabic television network as reporting that Kim's captors extended the deadline for beheading him. (Kyodo)