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The country's largest rebel group on Wednesday released a French freelance journalist whom it had held captive for more than a month.

The PKK freed eight Turkish soldiers and officials it had held captive in northern Iraq, where it has bases.

The PKK freed eight Turkish soldiers and officials it had held captive in northern Iraq for up to two years.

Islamic State recently posted on the Web a grisly video of one of the beheadings -- that of James Foley, a journalist it had held captive for more than a year.

See articleWorkers at a Goodyear factory in northern France released two managers they had held captive for 30 hours in a dispute over plans to close it.

Powhatan freed the seven Englishmen he had held captive, but an impasse resulted when he did not return the weapons and tools and refused to negotiate further.

In another sign of the power shifts under way, Colonel Qaddafi's loyalists abruptly released more than 30 foreign journalists they had held captive in the Rixos Hotel here.

In Pennsylvania, the last execution was in 1999, when Gary Heidnik was executed by injection for murdering two women he had held captive in his home.

Two prison inmates on Sunday released a guard they had held captive in a guard tower for two weeks and surrendered, a State Corrections Department spokeswoman said.

Another clash came this June, when the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), the largest guerrilla group, demanded a similar army withdrawal before the release of 70 soldiers that the FARC had held captive for over nine months.

India's most notorious bandit today finally freed India's most famous hostage, the beloved elderly movie idol Rajkumar, whom he had held captive for 109 days in an ever shifting series of jungle encampments.