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Aafia Siddiqui aka 'Lady al-Qaida': The prisoner at the center of Texas ho
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington [US], January 18 (ANI): Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani neuroscientist serving more than 80-years sentence in the US, has once again come to the limelight after her release was sought by the British hostage-taker at a Texas synagogue last week.
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Texas hostage-taking draws attention to Pak neuroscientist imprisoned in U
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington [US], January 17 (ANI): Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani neuroscientist serving more than 80-years sentence in the US, has once again come to the limelight after her release was sought by the British hostage-taker at a Texas synagogue last week.
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FBI identifies Texas synagogue hostage-taker; Biden calls incident 'act of
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington [US], January 17 (ANI): A 44-year-old British national Malik Faisal Akram, who took four people hostage at a Texas synagogue, that was called an "act of terror" by US President Joe Biden, was killed on Sunday after a tense standoff.
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Blasts heard at site where bus seized by armed man in Ukraine's Lutsk
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Kiew [Ukraine], July 21 (Sputnik/ANI): Blasts were heard at the site where an armed man seized a bus in the Ukrainian city of Lutsk, a correspondent for Ukraine's Channel 24 reported on Tuesday.
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Ukrainian police working to identify hostage-taker in Lutsk
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Kiev [Ukraine], July 21 (Sputnik/ANI): The Ukrainian police are trying to identify the armed man who has hijacked a bus with 20 people in the northwestern city of Lutsk.
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Wife of Farrukhabad hostage-taker dies after being thrashed by locals
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Jan 31 (ANI): The wife of a man who was killed for holding children as hostages here at Farrukhabad, died after being brutally thrashed by villagers on Friday, police said.
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Priest killed, hostage takers neutralised in France church attack
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
London, July 26 (ANI): French police on Tuesday said that a priest has been killed in the Normandy region of northern France after two men armed with knives took hostages in a church before being shot dead.
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