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• Hostages released at NY School, gunman surrenders

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  New York, Nov 10 (THAINDIAN NEWS) A forty-year-old former student who had held the principal and the assistant principal of the Stissing Mountain High School as hostages has finally released the hostages and has also surrendered to the police.Pine Plains Town Supervisor Gregg Pulver said that, “the man in custody is ...
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• Gunman takes Stissing Mountain High School’s principal as hostage

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  New York, Nov 10 (THAINDIAN NEWS) In a very sad incident, a gunman has taken a principal & an assistant principal, of an Upstate New York school, Stissing Mountain High School as hostages.Stissing Mountain High School is currently on a complete lock down as a gunman walked into the Duchess County high school ...
  17 hours ago

• Hostage situation in Jefferson City

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  Jefferson City, Nov 10 (THAINDIAN NEWS) There is a possible hostage situation in a downtown office building, city block in Jefferson City. Jefferson City Police said they received an alarm message about a possible hostage situation, but they said that they have not been able to confirm it as yet.There have been ...
  17 hours ago

• Batchelor: Spies Like Us

  
  RBO — Authority: 556
  John Batchelor writes on his blog:Bogged Down in Berlin The Tehran Twelvers grabbed three American children, Shane Bauer, Sarah Shourd, Josh Fattal, last summer along the Kurdish border with Iran and now hold them hostage as spies in exactly the same dopey and useful fashion North Korea held two American jounalists ...
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• November 9th Response to Show Cause Hearing set Battered Mothers loose Custody to Abusers; Domestic Violence on rise in Shawnee County

  
  A Human Rights Issue-Custodial Justice — Authority: 511
  2009 November 9th Response to Show Cause Hearing set November 13 dombrowski   http://www.ktka.com/news/2009/oct/20/domestic_violence_rise_shawnee_county/Domestic violence is on the rise in Shawnee County "I remember curling up in a ball to protect her from the ...
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• World Briefing | Asia: The Philippines: Captive Is Beheaded

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 913
  Muslim militants beheaded a school principal on a remote southern island in the Philippines after holding him for ransom for three weeks, a marine general said.
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• They Waited Till Carter’s Third Year Before They Started Taking Hostages

  
  The Foundry — Authority: 758
  Last week Heritage scholar James Carafano wrote : It is not hard to craft comparisons between Jimmy Carter and the current occupant of the Oval Office . Both entered office with high expectations; both vowed to change the tone in Washington and remake the world. Carter had a terrible sophomore slump. America’s ...
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• Iran Kidnaps Three Americans

  
  Israpundit — Authority: 624
  Iran repeats 1979 hostage-taking under color of trumped-up charges of “espionage” by Bill Levinson Iran Accuses American ‘Hikers’ Of Spying reports that Iran arrested three American citizens who strayed over the border and charged them with espionage. (Does a country with satellites that can read license ...
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• YouTube video sinks Turnbull minder

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  A media minder for Federal Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull has reportedly quit his job after being linked to an online bout of Liberal factional warfare. The video parodies Liberal MP Alex Hawke by portraying him as an enraged Adolf Hitler, echoing a YouTube trend of dubbing Hitler biopic Downfall with fake ...
  3 days ago

• 30 Years later in Iran: The tale of two protests! Death to America vs. Death to the Dictator!

  
  An Average American Patriot — Authority: 126
  Tale of Two Protests We just marked the Iran hostage crisis 30 years later as in Iran the thirty year anniversary of the storming of the US Embassy and the capture of 54 hostages brought the standard death to America crowd burning American flags. Something new is as they have been doing since the stolen ...
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• "Men’s Rights" Groups Have Become Frighteningly Effective They’re changing custody rights and domestic violence laws.

  
  A Human Rights Issue-Custodial Justice — Authority: 511
  "Men’s Rights" Groups Have Become Frighteningly EffectiveThey’re changing custody rights and domestic violence laws. http://www.doublex.com/section/news-politics/mens-rights-groups-have-become-frighteningly-effective?page=0,0 By: Kathryn Joyce Posted: November 5, 2009 at 7:45 AM At the end of October, National ...
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• Spanish Captives in Somali Waters Plead for Help

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 913
  Crew members of a Spanish fishing ship seized by Somali pirates over a month ago pleaded with their relatives to press the Spanish government to do more to gain their release.
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• Fox News Reporting: Americans Held Hostage in Iran

  
  Muslims Against Sharia — Authority: 589
  It was America’s first showdown with radical Islam. On November 4, 1979, radical Islamist students stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran. Initially, it was to be a brief protest against America’s decision to allow the exiled Shah of Iran to enter the United States for medical treatment. Instead, the world ...
  5 days ago

• Anna Wintour takes no hostages

  
  The Frock Report — Authority: 133
  Ms Nothing to do in Joburg Besides sent me a link to this madness this morning. Naturally I had a day from hell writing about Joost and his trying relationship to yours truly ( as a representative of the media of course ) so never got round to posting it till now. It’s a mad [...]Related posts: Anna Wintour vs ...
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• An Inglorious 30th Anniversary In Iran

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 501
  T he More Things Change, The More They Stay The Same: Where Were You When... Where were you when the Iranian hostage crisis began? I was a junior in college, and in the 70s the mind was on things other than international affairs. But this story hit home. Americans, on American "soil", attacked and captured by ...
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• Report Faults Parole System in Abduction

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 913
  The California inspector criticized the state’s handling of the parolee who was charged with kidnapping, raping and imprisoning Jaycee Dugard for 18 years in Antioch, Calif.
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• Switzerland firms tone with Libya

  
  GenevaLunch — Authority: 150
  Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - The Swiss government has suspended its 20 August 2009 agreement with Libya designed to improve relations and is restricting visas issued to Libyans. The Federal Council (cabinet) noted in a press release Wednesday 4 November that Tripoli has refused all collaboration and that “the ...
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• Harvey County KANSAS: Domestic violence cases up 55 percent

  
  A Human Rights Issue-Custodial Justice — Authority: 511
  Domestic violence cases up 55 percent in Harvey County KS: “Some women may want to leave the situation, but all wo.. http://bit.ly/3NWJxcDomestic violence cases up 55 percent in Harvey County By Cristina Janney Newton Kansan Posted Nov 04, 2009 @ 10:24 AM NEWTON — Offender/Victim Ministries of Newton is working ...
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• Somali residents fight pirates who are holding British couple captive

  
  Report on Arrakis — Authority: 620
  Somali residents of a central village, where islamic pirates where holding a British couple hostage, chased the pirates out of their village. Nice to see Somali resident rising up against the islamic pirates. Too bad they couldnt save the British couple. Garowe Online Residents of central Somali village of Bahdo ...
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• 30 Years Ago Today, Iran Took Americans Hostage; 30 Yrs Later, Hostage Takers Won, We Lost; Quiet Invasion of US Soil

  
  Debbie Schlussel — Authority: 624
  By Debbie SchlusselThirty years ago, today, Shi’ite Muslim thugs in Iran overtook the U.S. Embassy and took Americans hostage.  Directed by Ayatollah Khomeini as their guru, they kept these blindfolded Americans hostage for 444 days, while a failed Jimmy Carter rescue attempt resulted in fallen helicopters, ...
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