Jeffrey Woodke, an American aid worker who has been held hostage in Africa since 2016, has been freed Monday, National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan announced. Sullivan tweeted that he is “gratified & relieved to see the release of U.S. hostage Jeff Woodke after
Protests in Colombia have taken a violent turn after residents took 79 police officers hostage and two people died in the clash. The residents of Colombia’s southern Caquetá province blockaded the compound of oil company Emerald Energy, a subsidiary of China’s state-owned
After spending a week held hostage by an armed group demanding a ransom in Papua New Guinea’s remote Highlands region, an archaeologist is expected to return to Australia soon. On Monday, police and soldiers were hunting the group of around 20 gunmen
Papua New Guinea security forces are prepared to use lethal force to free a foreign national and three citizens of the South Pacific island nation from armed criminals, the police commissioner said. The foreign national and three Papua New Guinea university students
Hundreds of passengers left stranded on a train for 20 hours called police over fears they had been kidnapped. The Amtrak service from the Washington DC area to Florida experienced massive delays after being re-routed due to a derailed freight train further up