Tag: Hostage situations

EDE, Netherlands (news agencies) — Dutch police say that three people who were being held hostage in a nightclub in the central town of Ede have been released, but they ...

RAFAH, Gaza Strip (news agencies) — Hamas has rejected the latest proposal put forward by international mediators for a cease-fire and hostage release, and Israel has blasted a U.N. Security ...

UNITED NATIONS (news agencies) — The United Nations Security Council on Monday issued its first demand for a cease-fire in Gaza, with the U.S. angering Israel by abstaining from the ...

UNITED NATIONS (news agencies) — The United Nations Security Council is set to vote on a United States-sponsored resolution declaring that “an immediate and sustained cease-fire” in the Israel-Hamas war ...

UNITED NATIONS (news agencies) — The United States called for a vote Friday on a newly revised and tougher U.N. resolution declaring that “an immediate and sustained cease-fire” in the ...

TEL AVIV, Israel (news agencies) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu railed Sunday against growing criticism from the United States against his leadership amid the devasting war with Hamas, saying ...

NICOSIA, Cyprus (news agencies) — Another top donor to the U.N. agency aiding Palestinians said Saturday that it would resume funding, weeks after more than a dozen countries halted hundreds ...

ABUJA, Nigeria (news agencies) — Security forces swept through large forests in Nigeria’s northwest region on Friday in search of nearly 300 children who were abducted from their school a ...

NICOSIA, Cyprus (news agencies) — A top European Union official is in Cyprus on Friday to inspect preparations to send desperately needed aid to war-ravaged Gaza by sea, just hours ...

CAIRO (news agencies) — Hamas said Thursday that its delegation has left Cairo and that talks on a Gaza cease-fire and hostage release will resume next week, making it extremely ...