Image caption After two weeks, Ayatollah Khomeini ordered the release of 13 female and black hostages, but the release of all remaining captives became a priority for President Jimmy Carter.
The families of James Foley, Steven Sotloff, David Haines, and Alan Henning remain in our daily thoughts and prayers, and we pray for the safe return of all remaining captives held by all sides of the Syrian civil war.
The remaining captive bats in the enclosure were quarantined in a private facility off-site and were closely monitored for clinical, serologic, and behavioral changes during the next 3 months, and then for a further 3 months after they returned to their original enclosure.
The more than 150 remaining captive passengers and crew were freed in batches, and the final group was released as part of an apparent prisoner exchange with Israel.
While the remaining captive orcas will live out their lives at SeaWorld, the company is phasing out theatrical performances at its three parks in San Diego, San Antonio, and Orlando, and spectators will instead see orca enrichment and exercise activities.
While some of the girls escaped, the situation for the remaining captives looks bleak, as a man claiming to be Abubakar Shekau, Boko Haram's leader who reportedly died a year ago, claimed the girls had been "married off".
Accusing the militants of seeking to blow up the refinery and kill the remaining captives, the government launched a new assault.
Brian Keenan, the Irish teacher who was released after four and a half years as a hostage in Lebanon, urged negotiations today for the release of remaining captives in Lebanon, with whom he formed an "enduring and unbreakable bond" during years in tiny basement cells.
We have done the Uighurs wrong, and, as compensation, we've decided at the beginning of Passover, of all days to give them the choice between remaining captives and being strangers in a very strange land.
The 25 remaining captives include nine Westerners abducted at a diving resort in Malaysia in April.
The film draws to an almost nauseating close as the libertines murder the remaining captives, taking turns to be voyeurs.
