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Turks capture Palestinian at Tel Aviv embassy (AP)

August 17th, 2010

An Israel border police officer holds his weapon as a paramedic rushes put of the Turkish Embassy in Tel Aviv, Israel, Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2010. A Palestinian took hostages in the Turkish Embassy in Tel Aviv Tuesday after shots were fired outside, Israeli police and a Foreign Ministry official said, in an incident that appeared to have only an indirect link to recent tensions between the two countries. (AP Photo / Ariel Schalit)AP - Security guards captured a Palestinian who broke into the Turkish Embassy in Israel Tuesday trying to take hostages and demanding asylum, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said in a…

Police capture drug lieutenant in northern Mexico (AP)

July 29th, 2010

Investigators work at a crime scene where Rosarito's State Police Commander Antonio Sanchez was shot outside his headquarters in Rosarito, Mexico, early Wednesday July 28, 2010. According to police at the scene, Sanchez was shot by unidentified gunmen late Tuesday and died later while receiving medical attention. Another agent was injured during the shooting. (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias)AP - A suspected drug cartel lieutenant with a quarter-million-dollar reward on his head was captured in the border state of Chihuahua, where rival gangs are waging a bloody turf…

Taliban claim to capture US sailor, kill another (AP)

July 25th, 2010

A U.S. soldier with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) chats with a driver during a search for the two missing U.S. Navy personnel at a joint check post with Afghan soldiers in Pul-e-alam, Logar province of Afghanistan on Sunday, July 25, 2010. The Taliban have offered to exchange the body of a U.S. Navy sailor they said was killed in an ambush two days ago in exchange for insurgent prisoners, an Afghan official said Sunday. (AP Photo)AP - The Taliban claimed Sunday that they killed a U.S. sailor and kidnapped another as NATO forces ramped up a massive search for the servicemen, who went missing two…

Taliban claim capture of US sailor, killing of 2nd (AP)

July 25th, 2010

A U.S. soldier with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) chats with a driver during a search for the two missing U.S. Navy personnel at a joint check post with Afghan soldiers in Pul-e-alam, Logar province of Afghanistan on Sunday, July 25, 2010. The Taliban have offered to exchange the body of a U.S. Navy sailor they said was killed in an ambush two days ago in exchange for insurgent prisoners, an Afghan official said Sunday. (AP Photo)AP - The Taliban have offered to exchange the body of a U.S. Navy sailor they said was killed in an ambush two days ago in exchange for insurgent prisoners,…

Thai protester climbs out hotel to evade capture (AP)

April 16th, 2010

Anti-government leader Arisman Pongruanrong, in red, is helped by others as he flees arrest Friday, April 16, 2010, at a downtown Bangkok, Thailand, hotel. Arisman scaled down the facade of the hotel in downtown Bangkok into a waiting crowd of 'Red Shirt' supporters who then helped him into a car that drove away. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)AP - Thailand’s political crisis took a surreal twist Friday when an anti-government protest leader climbed down a hotel facade with a rope to evade arrest and drove off with…

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