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A Palestinian who broke into the Turkish Embassy in Israel trying to take hostages and demanding asylum was turned over to Israeli authorities late Tuesday, ending a tense standoff.

A man took hostages in the Turkish Embassy in Tel Aviv on Tuesday after shots were fired outside, Israeli police and a Foreign Ministry official said.  Security officers reportedly shot the man but it was unclear if he was dead or just injured.

A standoff in Sacramento, California, entered its 52nd hour Friday with no end in sight as police wait out a man wanted on multiple charges who is holding a 16-month-old baby as a hostage.

Iraqi officials have released a Shi'ite militant leader, an Interior Ministry official said on Tuesday, raising hopes that the last of five British hostages captured in Baghdad more than 2-1/2 years ago would be returned.

British hostage Peter Moore has been freed after being held captive in Iraq since May 2007, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband announced Wednesday.

An armed man took five hostages at a post office in western Virginia. There were no reports of injuries.

Tribal gunmen holding 46 hostages in the southern Philippines have reached an agreement with negotiators and will free all those in captivity, a government spokesman said on Saturday.

A gunman is in custody Tuesday after reportedly taking the principal hostage at an upstate New York high school, a town official told Fox News.

A man armed with a rifle held several people hostage Wednesday at an office building in Edmonton, western Canada as police surrounded the premises and workers fled.

The crew of two Egyptian fishing vessels overpowered Somali pirates after being held hostage for four months and, with machetes and tools, killed at least two pirates before sailing to freedom, a pirate and businessmen said Friday.

The case marked a rare instance of crewmen fighting back against Somali pirates, who usually hold their hostages for months in anticipation of million-dollar ransoms.
One pirate was in custody after local fishermen found him near shore with machete wounds, police said.