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Reuters - A man was shot dead on Sunday after he refused to disembark from a yacht in the Indian Ocean that was hijacked by Somali pirates last week, pirates…

AP - President Benigno Aquino III said Manila’s mayor, a recently retired police chief and journalists were among a dozen people who could be charged over last month’s disastrous hostage…

AP - Hong Kong forensic experts inspected the bullet-peppered bus in which a hijacker was accused of killing eight tourists in Manila last week, as the Philippines worked to calm…

AP - China warned travelers over travel to the Philippines and demanded answers Tuesday over how eight Hong Kong tourists were killed in a hostage stand-off in Manila following a…

AP - A 12-hour hostage stand-off on a hijacked Philippine bus ended in bloodshed Monday, with officials saying at least seven Chinese tourists were dead along with the disgruntled ex-policeman…

AP - Philippine police have pulled back from a bus where 15 Chinese tourists are held hostage after commandos attempted to storm it in a bid to end a daylong…

AP - Philippine police in hemlets and flak jackets have crouched beside the bus after firing shots at the tires in a bid to end a daylong hostage standoff involving…

AP - A dismissed policeman armed with an automatic rifle seized a bus in the Philippine capital Monday with 26 passengers aboard, most of them South Korean tourists, in a…

AP - The leader of al-Qaida’s offshoot in North Africa said in a message broadcast Sunday that the group has killed a French engineer taken hostage in Niger in April.

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Reuters - The participation of French troops in a raid on an al Qaeda camp in the Sahara could increase the risk to the hostage they tried to rescue and…