Security forces in Yemen cordoned off an area where tribesmen are holding a British family hostage.

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But German demands for penalties and holding ECB bailouts hostage is a game of chicken with worldwide implications.

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Nichols, who had been undergoing retrial on a rape charge, gave himself up Saturday after a woman he apparently was holding hostage called police.

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Cairo (CNN) -- Kidnappers in Egypt have released two Americans and their Egyptian tour guide after holding them hostage for three days, a security official said Monday.

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Police swarmed her northern New Jersey home after pranksters placed a 911 call through a computer that cloned her number and said a man had killed four people and was holding another hostage in her house.

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And it ruins the strategy of holding common-sense reforms hostage to more controversial policy changes, a type of gamesmanship on which legislators rely.

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"It's not just about nuisance, where a website was hacked, it's about them holding you hostage by denying you use of the Internet, " he said.

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But when the Tsarnaev brothers stopped at a gas station on the outskirts of Boston, the carjacking victim they were holding hostage escaped and called police, Kelly said.

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